Top Baby Names of 1888 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1888

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 299,474 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1888

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	11,754	6.58%
2	Anna	4,982	2.79%
3	Elizabeth	3,224	1.80%
4	Emma	3,087	1.73%
5	Margaret	2,904	1.63%
6	Minnie	2,654	1.49%
7	Bertha	2,450	1.37%
8	Florence	2,444	1.37%
9	Ethel	2,374	1.33%
10	Bessie	2,278	1.28%
11	Clara	2,230	1.25%
12	Ida	2,229	1.25%
13	Alice	2,202	1.23%
14	Annie	2,188	1.22%
15	Grace	2,090	1.17%
16	Helen	1,847	1.03%
17	Mabel	1,830	1.02%
18	Ella	1,774	0.99%
19	Martha	1,769	0.99%
20	Sarah	1,755	0.98%
21	Nellie	1,736	0.97%
22	Edna	1,687	0.94%
23	Lillian	1,656	0.93%
24	Carrie	1,647	0.92%
25	Laura	1,624	0.91%
26	Pearl	1,591	0.89%
27	Rose	1,590	0.89%
28	Gertrude	1,468	0.82%
29	Edith	1,453	0.81%
30	Frances	1,452	0.81%
31	Cora	1,433	0.80%
32	Maude	1,396	0.78%
33	Louise	1,334	0.75%
34	Eva	1,329	0.74%
35	Myrtle	1,310	0.73%
36	Hattie	1,298	0.73%
37	Jennie	1,298	0.73%
38	Julia	1,292	0.72%
39	Mattie	1,268	0.71%
40	Marie	1,258	0.70%
41	Lillie	1,249	0.70%
42	Catherine	1,212	0.68%
43	Jessie	1,200	0.67%
44	Lula	1,173	0.66%
45	Lena	1,162	0.65%
46	Ada	1,116	0.62%
47	Elsie	1,112	0.62%
48	Agnes	1,046	0.59%
49	Josephine	1,001	0.56%
50	Fannie	991	0.55%

Boys, 1888

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	9,247	7.65%
2	William	8,705	7.20%
3	James	5,562	4.60%
4	George	4,912	4.06%
5	Charles	4,591	3.80%
6	Frank	3,459	2.86%
7	Joseph	2,993	2.48%
8	Robert	2,814	2.33%
9	Harry	2,759	2.28%
10	Henry	2,596	2.15%
11	Edward	2,470	2.04%
12	Thomas	2,449	2.03%
13	Walter	2,040	1.69%
14	Arthur	1,710	1.41%
15	Fred	1,665	1.38%
16	Albert	1,569	1.30%
17	Clarence	1,022	0.85%
18	Samuel	931	0.77%
19	Louis	884	0.73%
20	Roy	856	0.71%
21	David	801	0.66%
22	Charlie	796	0.66%
23	Joe	789	0.65%
24	Willie	786	0.65%
25	Benjamin	781	0.65%
26	Richard	772	0.64%
27	Ernest	766	0.63%
28	Will	707	0.59%
29	Carl	675	0.56%
30	Earl	675	0.56%
31	Oscar	647	0.54%
32	Jesse	637	0.53%
33	Andrew	615	0.51%
34	Sam	607	0.50%
35	Daniel	566	0.47%
36	Ralph	547	0.45%
37	Alfred	536	0.44%
38	Paul	529	0.44%
39	Elmer	527	0.44%
40	Howard	513	0.42%
41	Peter	498	0.41%
42	Frederick	496	0.41%
43	Herbert	485	0.40%
44	Grover	474	0.39%
45	Raymond	469	0.39%
46	Michael	466	0.39%
47	Ben	463	0.38%
48	Lee	430	0.36%
49	Tom	416	0.34%
50	Lewis	412	0.34%

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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