Top Baby Names of 1886 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1886

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 255,316 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1886

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	9,889	6.84%
2	Anna	4,283	2.96%
3	Emma	2,764	1.91%
4	Elizabeth	2,680	1.85%
5	Minnie	2,372	1.64%
6	Margaret	2,275	1.57%
7	Ida	2,049	1.42%
8	Bertha	2,001	1.38%
9	Clara	1,916	1.33%
10	Florence	1,860	1.29%
11	Alice	1,811	1.25%
12	Bessie	1,791	1.24%
13	Annie	1,765	1.22%
14	Grace	1,723	1.19%
15	Ethel	1,699	1.18%
16	Sarah	1,569	1.09%
17	Nellie	1,492	1.03%
18	Martha	1,491	1.03%
19	Ella	1,464	1.01%
20	Mabel	1,422	0.98%
21	Carrie	1,396	0.97%
22	Laura	1,372	0.95%
23	Edna	1,314	0.91%
24	Lillian	1,282	0.89%
25	Helen	1,267	0.88%
26	Rose	1,261	0.87%
27	Gertrude	1,249	0.86%
28	Cora	1,231	0.85%
29	Pearl	1,204	0.83%
30	Maude	1,189	0.82%
31	Edith	1,184	0.82%
32	Eva	1,155	0.80%
33	Hattie	1,139	0.79%
34	Jennie	1,100	0.76%
35	Myrtle	1,094	0.76%
36	Julia	1,061	0.73%
37	Louise	1,061	0.73%
38	Frances	1,059	0.73%
39	Mattie	1,044	0.72%
40	Lula	1,040	0.72%
41	Jessie	1,003	0.69%
42	Lillie	995	0.69%
43	Lena	992	0.69%
44	Marie	988	0.68%
45	Catherine	916	0.63%
46	Ada	915	0.63%
47	Josephine	844	0.58%
48	Fannie	837	0.58%
49	Dora	827	0.57%
50	Lucy	817	0.57%

Boys, 1886

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	9,026	8.15%
2	William	8,252	7.45%
3	James	5,355	4.83%
4	George	4,671	4.22%
5	Charles	4,533	4.09%
6	Frank	3,127	2.82%
7	Joseph	2,594	2.34%
8	Robert	2,443	2.21%
9	Henry	2,404	2.17%
10	Thomas	2,337	2.11%
11	Edward	2,312	2.09%
12	Harry	2,257	2.04%
13	Walter	1,880	1.70%
14	Arthur	1,656	1.49%
15	Fred	1,599	1.44%
16	Albert	1,488	1.34%
17	Clarence	995	0.90%
18	Samuel	870	0.79%
19	Louis	846	0.76%
20	Roy	767	0.69%
21	Joe	759	0.69%
22	Charlie	723	0.65%
23	Richard	720	0.65%
24	David	674	0.61%
25	Ernest	668	0.60%
26	Oscar	645	0.58%
27	Will	642	0.58%
28	Willie	641	0.58%
29	Andrew	614	0.55%
30	Jesse	614	0.55%
31	Earl	570	0.51%
32	Carl	556	0.50%
33	Daniel	555	0.50%
34	Sam	519	0.47%
35	Elmer	485	0.44%
36	Alfred	480	0.43%
37	Howard	467	0.42%
38	Paul	466	0.42%
39	Benjamin	463	0.42%
40	Frederick	461	0.42%
41	Ralph	440	0.40%
42	Peter	437	0.39%
43	Lewis	431	0.39%
44	Herman	418	0.38%
45	Grover	407	0.37%
46	Herbert	400	0.36%
47	Lee	399	0.36%
48	Claude	391	0.35%
49	Jim	389	0.35%
50	Tom	383	0.35%

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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