Top Baby Names of 1887 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1887

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 247,391 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1887

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	9,888	6.77%
2	Anna	4,227	2.90%
3	Elizabeth	2,681	1.84%
4	Emma	2,647	1.81%
5	Margaret	2,419	1.66%
6	Minnie	2,215	1.52%
7	Bertha	2,037	1.40%
8	Clara	1,984	1.36%
9	Florence	1,964	1.35%
10	Ida	1,929	1.32%
11	Ethel	1,907	1.31%
12	Annie	1,844	1.26%
13	Bessie	1,838	1.26%
14	Alice	1,819	1.25%
15	Grace	1,692	1.16%
16	Ella	1,521	1.04%
17	Martha	1,504	1.03%
18	Mabel	1,494	1.02%
19	Nellie	1,457	1.00%
20	Sarah	1,436	0.98%
21	Helen	1,405	0.96%
22	Laura	1,364	0.93%
23	Carrie	1,344	0.92%
24	Edna	1,339	0.92%
25	Pearl	1,316	0.90%
26	Lillian	1,308	0.90%
27	Cora	1,257	0.86%
28	Gertrude	1,251	0.86%
29	Edith	1,243	0.85%
30	Rose	1,242	0.85%
31	Maude	1,162	0.80%
32	Hattie	1,135	0.78%
33	Eva	1,125	0.77%
34	Frances	1,105	0.76%
35	Louise	1,088	0.75%
36	Myrtle	1,087	0.74%
37	Lillie	1,072	0.73%
38	Jennie	1,047	0.72%
39	Julia	1,043	0.71%
40	Mattie	1,031	0.71%
41	Jessie	1,012	0.69%
42	Lena	1,004	0.69%
43	Marie	994	0.68%
44	Catherine	967	0.66%
45	Ada	910	0.62%
46	Agnes	896	0.61%
47	Lula	891	0.61%
48	Dora	842	0.58%
49	Elsie	833	0.57%
50	Josephine	815	0.56%

Boys, 1887

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	8,110	8.00%
2	William	7,470	7.37%
3	James	4,767	4.70%
4	George	4,284	4.22%
5	Charles	4,031	3.97%
6	Frank	2,883	2.84%
7	Joseph	2,456	2.42%
8	Henry	2,228	2.20%
9	Thomas	2,151	2.12%
10	Edward	2,125	2.10%
11	Robert	2,125	2.10%
12	Harry	2,057	2.03%
13	Walter	1,704	1.68%
14	Arthur	1,489	1.47%
15	Fred	1,454	1.43%
16	Albert	1,294	1.28%
17	Clarence	892	0.88%
18	Samuel	802	0.79%
19	Louis	791	0.78%
20	Roy	726	0.72%
21	Joe	685	0.68%
22	David	673	0.66%
23	Ernest	653	0.64%
24	Charlie	642	0.63%
25	Richard	622	0.61%
26	Jesse	601	0.59%
27	Willie	590	0.58%
28	Carl	588	0.58%
29	Oscar	574	0.57%
30	Will	561	0.55%
31	Daniel	556	0.55%
32	Earl	537	0.53%
33	Andrew	520	0.51%
34	Benjamin	473	0.47%
35	Alfred	468	0.46%
36	Elmer	467	0.46%
37	Frederick	464	0.46%
38	Ralph	463	0.46%
39	Sam	463	0.46%
40	Paul	449	0.44%
41	Herbert	445	0.44%
42	Howard	429	0.42%
43	Peter	421	0.42%
44	Lee	400	0.39%
45	Herman	394	0.39%
46	Claude	375	0.37%
47	Raymond	372	0.37%
48	Michael	344	0.34%
49	Lewis	343	0.34%
50	Jim	339	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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