Top Baby Names of 1891 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1891

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 286,673 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1891

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	11,704	6.31%
2	Anna	5,099	2.75%
3	Margaret	3,065	1.65%
4	Elizabeth	3,059	1.65%
5	Emma	2,884	1.55%
6	Florence	2,716	1.46%
7	Ethel	2,689	1.45%
8	Minnie	2,428	1.31%
9	Helen	2,417	1.30%
10	Bertha	2,372	1.28%
11	Clara	2,360	1.27%
12	Bessie	2,323	1.25%
13	Annie	2,096	1.13%
14	Grace	2,088	1.13%
15	Mabel	2,029	1.09%
16	Alice	2,015	1.09%
17	Ida	2,002	1.08%
18	Edna	1,963	1.06%
19	Ruth	1,857	1.00%
20	Lillian	1,812	0.98%
21	Martha	1,744	0.94%
22	Rose	1,696	0.91%
23	Ella	1,685	0.91%
24	Sarah	1,669	0.90%
25	Nellie	1,647	0.89%
26	Gertrude	1,645	0.89%
27	Pearl	1,605	0.87%
28	Marie	1,596	0.86%
29	Edith	1,509	0.81%
30	Laura	1,509	0.81%
31	Myrtle	1,458	0.79%
32	Hazel	1,447	0.78%
33	Eva	1,412	0.76%
34	Frances	1,397	0.75%
35	Cora	1,343	0.72%
36	Carrie	1,342	0.72%
37	Louise	1,333	0.72%
38	Elsie	1,303	0.70%
39	Lillie	1,247	0.67%
40	Jennie	1,238	0.67%
41	Catherine	1,219	0.66%
42	Hattie	1,219	0.66%
43	Julia	1,200	0.65%
44	Maude	1,188	0.64%
45	Lena	1,174	0.63%
46	Mattie	1,165	0.63%
47	Agnes	1,125	0.61%
48	Jessie	1,119	0.60%
49	Josephine	1,031	0.56%
50	Lula	1,010	0.54%

Boys, 1891

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	7,680	7.59%
2	William	6,763	6.68%
3	James	4,516	4.46%
4	George	3,931	3.88%
5	Charles	3,640	3.60%
6	Frank	2,652	2.62%
7	Joseph	2,572	2.54%
8	Robert	2,240	2.21%
9	Harry	2,132	2.11%
10	Henry	2,049	2.02%
11	Edward	1,989	1.97%
12	Thomas	1,982	1.96%
13	Walter	1,668	1.65%
14	Arthur	1,514	1.50%
15	Fred	1,362	1.35%
16	Albert	1,207	1.19%
17	Clarence	1,007	1.00%
18	Roy	838	0.83%
19	Louis	786	0.78%
20	Samuel	753	0.74%
21	Willie	739	0.73%
22	Ernest	715	0.71%
23	Charlie	707	0.70%
24	Carl	675	0.67%
25	Earl	674	0.67%
26	David	673	0.67%
27	Richard	609	0.60%
28	Ralph	587	0.58%
29	Joe	584	0.58%
30	Raymond	575	0.57%
31	Paul	564	0.56%
32	Oscar	551	0.54%
33	Andrew	521	0.51%
34	Will	520	0.51%
35	Jesse	519	0.51%
36	Elmer	508	0.50%
37	Daniel	505	0.50%
38	Herbert	501	0.50%
39	Alfred	499	0.49%
40	Howard	485	0.48%
41	Benjamin	461	0.46%
42	Harold	419	0.41%
43	Sam	418	0.41%
44	Frederick	412	0.41%
45	Peter	396	0.39%
46	Lawrence	389	0.38%
47	Herman	383	0.38%
48	Eugene	362	0.36%
49	Ray	360	0.36%
50	Lewis	357	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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