Top Baby Names of 1889 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1889

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 288,946 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1889

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	11,648	6.53%
2	Anna	5,062	2.84%
3	Elizabeth	3,058	1.71%
4	Margaret	2,917	1.64%
5	Emma	2,884	1.62%
6	Minnie	2,624	1.47%
7	Florence	2,465	1.38%
8	Ethel	2,463	1.38%
9	Bessie	2,343	1.31%
10	Clara	2,319	1.30%
11	Bertha	2,293	1.29%
12	Alice	2,145	1.20%
13	Annie	2,123	1.19%
14	Ida	2,122	1.19%
15	Grace	2,049	1.15%
16	Mabel	1,947	1.09%
17	Helen	1,909	1.07%
18	Edna	1,815	1.02%
19	Nellie	1,752	0.98%
20	Sarah	1,730	0.97%
21	Martha	1,711	0.96%
22	Ella	1,647	0.92%
23	Lillian	1,640	0.92%
24	Pearl	1,588	0.89%
25	Laura	1,567	0.88%
26	Rose	1,550	0.87%
27	Carrie	1,547	0.87%
28	Gertrude	1,543	0.87%
29	Edith	1,523	0.85%
30	Marie	1,436	0.81%
31	Eva	1,372	0.77%
32	Cora	1,365	0.77%
33	Myrtle	1,361	0.76%
34	Frances	1,351	0.76%
35	Hattie	1,328	0.74%
36	Maude	1,293	0.72%
37	Lillie	1,289	0.72%
38	Louise	1,283	0.72%
39	Jennie	1,252	0.70%
40	Julia	1,201	0.67%
41	Elsie	1,199	0.67%
42	Catherine	1,198	0.67%
43	Jessie	1,196	0.67%
44	Mattie	1,173	0.66%
45	Lena	1,096	0.61%
46	Ruth	1,073	0.60%
47	Lula	1,067	0.60%
48	Hazel	1,056	0.59%
49	Josephine	1,047	0.59%
50	Agnes	1,033	0.58%

Boys, 1889

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	8,548	7.73%
2	William	7,772	7.03%
3	James	5,020	4.54%
4	George	4,430	4.01%
5	Charles	4,199	3.80%
6	Frank	2,975	2.69%
7	Joseph	2,729	2.47%
8	Harry	2,559	2.31%
9	Robert	2,513	2.27%
10	Edward	2,299	2.08%
11	Henry	2,286	2.07%
12	Thomas	2,233	2.02%
13	Walter	1,916	1.73%
14	Arthur	1,668	1.51%
15	Fred	1,554	1.41%
16	Albert	1,353	1.22%
17	Clarence	984	0.89%
18	Roy	888	0.80%
19	Louis	837	0.76%
20	Samuel	810	0.73%
21	Benjamin	760	0.69%
22	David	757	0.68%
23	Ernest	736	0.67%
24	Richard	711	0.64%
25	Joe	709	0.64%
26	Willie	708	0.64%
27	Carl	704	0.64%
28	Earl	688	0.62%
29	Charlie	685	0.62%
30	Will	631	0.57%
31	Jesse	576	0.52%
32	Oscar	572	0.52%
33	Andrew	561	0.51%
34	Elmer	557	0.50%
35	Paul	555	0.50%
36	Daniel	515	0.47%
37	Raymond	511	0.46%
38	Howard	503	0.45%
39	Ralph	495	0.45%
40	Sam	486	0.44%
41	Alfred	472	0.43%
42	Herbert	472	0.43%
43	Ben	453	0.41%
44	Frederick	451	0.41%
45	Peter	425	0.38%
46	Lee	415	0.38%
47	Lewis	414	0.37%
48	Herman	405	0.37%
49	Claude	386	0.35%
50	Tom	379	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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