Top Baby Names of 1882 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1882

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 221,533 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1882

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	8,148	7.56%
2	Anna	3,143	2.91%
3	Emma	2,303	2.14%
4	Elizabeth	2,186	2.03%
5	Minnie	2,004	1.86%
6	Margaret	1,821	1.69%
7	Ida	1,673	1.55%
8	Alice	1,542	1.43%
9	Bertha	1,508	1.40%
10	Annie	1,492	1.38%
11	Clara	1,490	1.38%
12	Sarah	1,410	1.31%
13	Florence	1,322	1.23%
14	Martha	1,229	1.14%
15	Ella	1,206	1.12%
16	Grace	1,195	1.11%
17	Laura	1,151	1.07%
18	Bessie	1,144	1.06%
19	Nellie	1,138	1.06%
20	Maude	1,089	1.01%
21	Cora	1,076	1.00%
22	Carrie	1,037	0.96%
23	Mabel	997	0.92%
24	Ethel	989	0.92%
25	Mattie	966	0.90%
26	Gertrude	939	0.87%
27	Jennie	934	0.87%
28	Rose	886	0.82%
29	Edith	876	0.81%
30	Hattie	859	0.80%
31	Helen	838	0.78%
32	Lillian	830	0.77%
33	Pearl	824	0.76%
34	Louise	813	0.75%
35	Julia	811	0.75%
36	Lillie	810	0.75%
37	Jessie	806	0.75%
38	Myrtle	803	0.74%
39	Edna	783	0.73%
40	Lula	780	0.72%
41	Eva	765	0.71%
42	Catherine	726	0.67%
43	Lena	697	0.65%
44	Ada	689	0.64%
45	Frances	681	0.63%
46	Lucy	673	0.62%
47	Fannie	650	0.60%
48	Daisy	648	0.60%
49	Josephine	638	0.59%
50	Maggie	627	0.58%

Boys, 1882

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	9,557	8.41%
2	William	9,298	8.18%
3	James	5,892	5.18%
4	George	5,193	4.57%
5	Charles	5,091	4.48%
6	Frank	3,176	2.79%
7	Joseph	2,670	2.35%
8	Thomas	2,610	2.30%
9	Henry	2,579	2.27%
10	Robert	2,500	2.20%
11	Edward	2,477	2.18%
12	Harry	2,232	1.96%
13	Walter	1,805	1.59%
14	Arthur	1,686	1.48%
15	Fred	1,641	1.44%
16	Albert	1,499	1.32%
17	Samuel	1,003	0.88%
18	Louis	852	0.75%
19	David	838	0.74%
20	Clarence	837	0.74%
21	Charlie	753	0.66%
22	Richard	746	0.66%
23	Joe	739	0.65%
24	Andrew	673	0.59%
25	Will	666	0.59%
26	Jesse	660	0.58%
27	Ernest	642	0.56%
28	Oscar	625	0.55%
29	Daniel	594	0.52%
30	Sam	555	0.49%
31	Willie	541	0.48%
32	Alfred	523	0.46%
33	Roy	521	0.46%
34	Benjamin	478	0.42%
35	Carl	478	0.42%
36	Peter	461	0.41%
37	Frederick	457	0.40%
38	Elmer	441	0.39%
39	Lewis	441	0.39%
40	Herbert	431	0.38%
41	Lee	427	0.38%
42	Howard	422	0.37%
43	Ralph	407	0.36%
44	Paul	397	0.35%
45	Jim	396	0.35%
46	Jacob	390	0.34%
47	Tom	390	0.34%
48	Martin	387	0.34%
49	Earl	377	0.33%
50	Claude	356	0.31%

United States national data, Social Security Administration. The file counts Social Security applications, so its early decades undercount; the share column is a name's part of the names recorded for that sex that year, not of all births. How we use it.

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