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The top names of 1890

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 301,401 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1890

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	12,078	6.34%
2	Anna	5,233	2.75%
3	Elizabeth	3,112	1.63%
4	Margaret	3,100	1.63%
5	Emma	2,980	1.57%
6	Florence	2,744	1.44%
7	Ethel	2,718	1.43%
8	Minnie	2,650	1.39%
9	Clara	2,496	1.31%
10	Bertha	2,388	1.25%
11	Bessie	2,370	1.24%
12	Helen	2,312	1.21%
13	Grace	2,278	1.20%
14	Alice	2,271	1.19%
15	Annie	2,220	1.17%
16	Ida	2,178	1.14%
17	Mabel	2,058	1.08%
18	Edna	1,973	1.04%
19	Lillian	1,862	0.98%
20	Nellie	1,821	0.96%
21	Sarah	1,786	0.94%
22	Martha	1,784	0.94%
23	Ella	1,758	0.92%
24	Pearl	1,741	0.91%
25	Rose	1,725	0.91%
26	Gertrude	1,713	0.90%
27	Laura	1,634	0.86%
28	Marie	1,563	0.82%
29	Carrie	1,510	0.79%
30	Edith	1,493	0.78%
31	Louise	1,472	0.77%
32	Eva	1,436	0.75%
33	Frances	1,416	0.74%
34	Myrtle	1,406	0.74%
35	Lillie	1,390	0.73%
36	Cora	1,386	0.73%
37	Hazel	1,366	0.72%
38	Hattie	1,363	0.72%
39	Maude	1,359	0.71%
40	Julia	1,275	0.67%
41	Jennie	1,259	0.66%
42	Mattie	1,256	0.66%
43	Jessie	1,250	0.66%
44	Catherine	1,232	0.65%
45	Elsie	1,220	0.64%
46	Ruth	1,195	0.63%
47	Lena	1,137	0.60%
48	Lula	1,121	0.59%
49	Josephine	1,118	0.59%
50	Agnes	1,095	0.58%

Boys, 1890

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	8,502	7.66%
2	William	7,494	6.75%
3	James	5,097	4.59%
4	George	4,458	4.02%
5	Charles	4,061	3.66%
6	Frank	3,078	2.77%
7	Joseph	2,670	2.40%
8	Robert	2,541	2.29%
9	Henry	2,349	2.12%
10	Harry	2,345	2.11%
11	Edward	2,282	2.06%
12	Thomas	2,200	1.98%
13	Walter	1,905	1.72%
14	Arthur	1,610	1.45%
15	Fred	1,506	1.36%
16	Albert	1,417	1.28%
17	Clarence	1,018	0.92%
18	Roy	941	0.85%
19	Louis	860	0.77%
20	Samuel	815	0.73%
21	Charlie	797	0.72%
22	Ernest	774	0.70%
23	Willie	758	0.68%
24	Earl	744	0.67%
25	Richard	743	0.67%
26	David	731	0.66%
27	Carl	693	0.62%
28	Joe	682	0.61%
29	Oscar	628	0.57%
30	Will	613	0.55%
31	Paul	607	0.55%
32	Ralph	587	0.53%
33	Jesse	576	0.52%
34	Andrew	575	0.52%
35	Alfred	549	0.49%
36	Raymond	546	0.49%
37	Benjamin	537	0.48%
38	Elmer	528	0.48%
39	Daniel	505	0.45%
40	Howard	501	0.45%
41	Sam	489	0.44%
42	Herbert	467	0.42%
43	Frederick	410	0.37%
44	Lee	410	0.37%
45	Peter	410	0.37%
46	Eugene	408	0.37%
47	Harold	408	0.37%
48	Michael	394	0.35%
49	Leo	393	0.35%
50	Herman	382	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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