Top Baby Names of 1884 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1884

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 243,460 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1884

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	9,217	7.14%
2	Anna	3,860	2.99%
3	Emma	2,587	2.01%
4	Elizabeth	2,549	1.98%
5	Minnie	2,243	1.74%
6	Margaret	2,142	1.66%
7	Ida	1,882	1.46%
8	Clara	1,852	1.44%
9	Bertha	1,789	1.39%
10	Annie	1,739	1.35%
11	Alice	1,732	1.34%
12	Florence	1,570	1.22%
13	Grace	1,525	1.18%
14	Sarah	1,518	1.18%
15	Bessie	1,451	1.12%
16	Martha	1,443	1.12%
17	Nellie	1,417	1.10%
18	Ethel	1,386	1.07%
19	Ella	1,374	1.06%
20	Mabel	1,270	0.98%
21	Laura	1,246	0.97%
22	Carrie	1,245	0.96%
23	Cora	1,244	0.96%
24	Maude	1,225	0.95%
25	Pearl	1,138	0.88%
26	Lillian	1,109	0.86%
27	Edith	1,104	0.86%
28	Gertrude	1,063	0.82%
29	Jennie	1,063	0.82%
30	Rose	1,060	0.82%
31	Mattie	1,007	0.78%
32	Hattie	993	0.77%
33	Helen	986	0.76%
34	Myrtle	979	0.76%
35	Louise	962	0.75%
36	Edna	957	0.74%
37	Julia	935	0.72%
38	Eva	929	0.72%
39	Lula	916	0.71%
40	Lillie	911	0.71%
41	Lena	906	0.70%
42	Jessie	888	0.69%
43	Catherine	874	0.68%
44	Ada	854	0.66%
45	Josephine	800	0.62%
46	Frances	789	0.61%
47	Lucy	787	0.61%
48	Maggie	749	0.58%
49	Marie	746	0.58%
50	Fannie	738	0.57%

Boys, 1884

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	9,388	8.20%
2	William	8,897	7.77%
3	James	5,693	4.97%
4	George	4,961	4.33%
5	Charles	4,802	4.20%
6	Frank	3,218	2.81%
7	Joseph	2,707	2.37%
8	Thomas	2,572	2.25%
9	Henry	2,474	2.16%
10	Robert	2,468	2.16%
11	Edward	2,439	2.13%
12	Harry	2,323	2.03%
13	Walter	1,902	1.66%
14	Arthur	1,690	1.48%
15	Fred	1,638	1.43%
16	Albert	1,435	1.25%
17	Samuel	945	0.83%
18	Clarence	889	0.78%
19	Louis	886	0.77%
20	Grover	802	0.70%
21	David	761	0.66%
22	Joe	759	0.66%
23	Richard	749	0.65%
24	Charlie	746	0.65%
25	Ernest	690	0.60%
26	Roy	680	0.59%
27	Jesse	670	0.59%
28	Will	650	0.57%
29	Andrew	616	0.54%
30	Oscar	615	0.54%
31	Willie	578	0.51%
32	Daniel	573	0.50%
33	Sam	533	0.47%
34	Peter	524	0.46%
35	Elmer	523	0.46%
36	Carl	521	0.46%
37	Alfred	520	0.45%
38	Benjamin	509	0.44%
39	Lewis	476	0.42%
40	Earl	464	0.41%
41	Ralph	464	0.41%
42	Frederick	454	0.40%
43	Lee	435	0.38%
44	Howard	432	0.38%
45	Paul	422	0.37%
46	Herbert	421	0.37%
47	Tom	394	0.34%
48	Herman	385	0.34%
49	Martin	385	0.34%
50	Jacob	381	0.33%

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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