By year

The top names of 1885

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 240,854 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1885

#NameBabiesShare
1Mary9,1286.86%
2Anna3,9943.00%
3Emma2,7282.05%
4Elizabeth2,5821.94%
5Margaret2,2041.66%
6Minnie2,1781.64%
7Clara1,9101.44%
8Bertha1,8601.40%
9Ida1,8541.39%
10Annie1,7031.28%
11Alice1,6811.26%
12Florence1,6671.25%
13Bessie1,5881.19%
14Grace1,5751.18%
15Ethel1,4951.12%
16Nellie1,4321.08%
17Martha1,4251.07%
18Sarah1,4241.07%
19Ella1,3951.05%
20Mabel1,3491.01%
21Laura1,3251.00%
22Carrie1,2830.96%
23Cora1,2530.94%
24Maude1,2220.92%
25Rose1,1640.87%
26Pearl1,1460.86%
27Lillian1,1430.86%
28Helen1,1340.85%
29Gertrude1,0860.82%
30Edna1,0770.81%
31Edith1,0710.80%
32Julia1,0620.80%
33Jennie1,0450.79%
34Myrtle1,0260.77%
35Mattie1,0140.76%
36Hattie1,0080.76%
37Lillie9790.74%
38Eva9710.73%
39Louise9560.72%
40Jessie9520.72%
41Lula9490.71%
42Marie8850.67%
43Ada8760.66%
44Lena8760.66%
45Catherine8460.64%
46Frances8440.63%
47Fannie7830.59%
48Josephine7830.59%
49Dora7760.58%
50Katherine7510.56%

Boys, 1885

#NameBabiesShare
1John8,7568.12%
2William8,0447.46%
3James5,1754.80%
4George4,6744.34%
5Charles4,5994.27%
6Frank3,0672.85%
7Joseph2,5402.36%
8Henry2,4062.23%
9Robert2,3222.15%
10Thomas2,2662.10%
11Edward2,2202.06%
12Harry2,1982.04%
13Walter1,8081.68%
14Fred1,5621.45%
15Arthur1,5161.41%
16Albert1,4291.33%
17Clarence9060.84%
18Samuel8880.82%
19Louis8090.75%
20Grover7680.71%
21Ernest7180.67%
22David7120.66%
23Charlie7050.65%
24Roy6910.64%
25Joe6810.63%
26Richard6720.62%
27Will6250.58%
28Oscar6230.58%
29Willie6140.57%
30Andrew5990.56%
31Jesse5560.52%
32Daniel5350.50%
33Peter5160.48%
34Carl4940.46%
35Sam4920.46%
36Earl4810.45%
37Frederick4660.43%
38Benjamin4640.43%
39Alfred4460.41%
40Elmer4430.41%
41Howard4380.41%
42Lewis4370.41%
43Paul4280.40%
44Ralph4220.39%
45Herbert3880.36%
46Jim3700.34%
47Michael3700.34%
48Tom3610.33%
49Martin3570.33%
50Lee3480.32%

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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