Top Baby Names of 1883 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1883

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 216,945 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1883

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	8,012	7.13%
2	Anna	3,306	2.94%
3	Emma	2,367	2.11%
4	Elizabeth	2,255	2.01%
5	Minnie	2,035	1.81%
6	Margaret	1,881	1.67%
7	Bertha	1,681	1.50%
8	Ida	1,634	1.45%
9	Annie	1,589	1.41%
10	Clara	1,548	1.38%
11	Alice	1,488	1.32%
12	Sarah	1,359	1.21%
13	Grace	1,307	1.16%
14	Florence	1,298	1.16%
15	Martha	1,255	1.12%
16	Ella	1,251	1.11%
17	Nellie	1,246	1.11%
18	Bessie	1,241	1.10%
19	Laura	1,183	1.05%
20	Ethel	1,132	1.01%
21	Carrie	1,108	0.99%
22	Maude	1,096	0.98%
23	Mabel	1,086	0.97%
24	Cora	1,081	0.96%
25	Gertrude	923	0.82%
26	Lillian	907	0.81%
27	Jennie	904	0.80%
28	Hattie	895	0.80%
29	Pearl	886	0.79%
30	Mattie	883	0.79%
31	Edith	881	0.78%
32	Eva	879	0.78%
33	Rose	877	0.78%
34	Julia	875	0.78%
35	Helen	862	0.77%
36	Catherine	853	0.76%
37	Myrtle	851	0.76%
38	Louise	847	0.75%
39	Lillie	837	0.75%
40	Jessie	834	0.74%
41	Edna	823	0.73%
42	Lena	800	0.71%
43	Lula	790	0.70%
44	Ada	778	0.69%
45	Frances	710	0.63%
46	Josephine	697	0.62%
47	Fannie	696	0.62%
48	Lucy	663	0.59%
49	Maggie	663	0.59%
50	Daisy	659	0.59%

Boys, 1883

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	8,894	8.50%
2	William	8,387	8.02%
3	James	5,223	4.99%
4	Charles	4,826	4.61%
5	George	4,736	4.53%
6	Frank	2,986	2.85%
7	Joseph	2,515	2.40%
8	Henry	2,383	2.28%
9	Robert	2,334	2.23%
10	Thomas	2,316	2.21%
11	Edward	2,250	2.15%
12	Harry	2,110	2.02%
13	Walter	1,705	1.63%
14	Arthur	1,591	1.52%
15	Fred	1,502	1.44%
16	Albert	1,496	1.43%
17	Samuel	937	0.90%
18	Clarence	837	0.80%
19	Louis	796	0.76%
20	David	734	0.70%
21	Richard	649	0.62%
22	Charlie	643	0.61%
23	Ernest	641	0.61%
24	Andrew	623	0.60%
25	Daniel	615	0.59%
26	Joe	607	0.58%
27	Oscar	607	0.58%
28	Jesse	584	0.56%
29	Will	576	0.55%
30	Roy	556	0.53%
31	Benjamin	508	0.49%
32	Carl	480	0.46%
33	Sam	476	0.45%
34	Willie	474	0.45%
35	Alfred	457	0.44%
36	Peter	450	0.43%
37	Frederick	438	0.42%
38	Lewis	431	0.41%
39	Howard	429	0.41%
40	Elmer	423	0.40%
41	Herbert	422	0.40%
42	Earl	389	0.37%
43	Lee	388	0.37%
44	Tom	386	0.37%
45	Ralph	385	0.37%
46	Martin	377	0.36%
47	Herman	359	0.34%
48	Paul	358	0.34%
49	Jacob	356	0.34%
50	Clyde	336	0.32%

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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