Top Baby Names of 1892 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1892

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 334,374 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1892

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	13,172	6.20%
2	Anna	5,542	2.61%
3	Elizabeth	3,461	1.63%
4	Margaret	3,435	1.62%
5	Ruth	3,290	1.55%
6	Florence	3,154	1.49%
7	Emma	3,128	1.47%
8	Ethel	3,035	1.43%
9	Helen	2,936	1.38%
10	Clara	2,661	1.25%
11	Bertha	2,617	1.23%
12	Minnie	2,609	1.23%
13	Bessie	2,541	1.20%
14	Alice	2,373	1.12%
15	Annie	2,348	1.11%
16	Grace	2,299	1.08%
17	Ida	2,259	1.06%
18	Edna	2,218	1.04%
19	Mabel	2,170	1.02%
20	Lillian	2,154	1.01%
21	Marie	2,066	0.97%
22	Rose	2,023	0.95%
23	Gertrude	1,924	0.91%
24	Martha	1,915	0.90%
25	Hazel	1,897	0.89%
26	Pearl	1,831	0.86%
27	Ella	1,808	0.85%
28	Sarah	1,798	0.85%
29	Laura	1,744	0.82%
30	Nellie	1,738	0.82%
31	Frances	1,670	0.79%
32	Myrtle	1,666	0.78%
33	Edith	1,625	0.77%
34	Eva	1,611	0.76%
35	Carrie	1,588	0.75%
36	Lillie	1,503	0.71%
37	Elsie	1,489	0.70%
38	Louise	1,446	0.68%
39	Cora	1,419	0.67%
40	Hattie	1,363	0.64%
41	Julia	1,360	0.64%
42	Catherine	1,333	0.63%
43	Agnes	1,328	0.63%
44	Mattie	1,303	0.61%
45	Maude	1,270	0.60%
46	Jessie	1,246	0.59%
47	Lena	1,234	0.58%
48	Jennie	1,212	0.57%
49	Josephine	1,210	0.57%
50	Ada	1,134	0.53%

Boys, 1892

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	9,039	7.41%
2	William	7,782	6.38%
3	James	5,398	4.42%
4	George	4,760	3.90%
5	Charles	4,319	3.54%
6	Frank	3,150	2.58%
7	Joseph	3,064	2.51%
8	Robert	2,710	2.22%
9	Harry	2,460	2.02%
10	Henry	2,452	2.01%
11	Edward	2,416	1.98%
12	Thomas	2,413	1.98%
13	Walter	2,229	1.83%
14	Arthur	1,768	1.45%
15	Fred	1,628	1.33%
16	Albert	1,500	1.23%
17	Clarence	1,276	1.05%
18	Roy	1,048	0.86%
19	Willie	948	0.78%
20	Samuel	902	0.74%
21	Earl	888	0.73%
22	Louis	865	0.71%
23	Joe	819	0.67%
24	David	813	0.67%
25	Carl	808	0.66%
26	Ernest	805	0.66%
27	Richard	802	0.66%
28	Charlie	761	0.62%
29	Paul	747	0.61%
30	Ralph	725	0.59%
31	Raymond	681	0.56%
32	Andrew	637	0.52%
33	Oscar	634	0.52%
34	Will	607	0.50%
35	Jesse	602	0.49%
36	Elmer	592	0.49%
37	Harold	583	0.48%
38	Sam	551	0.45%
39	Howard	548	0.45%
40	Alfred	542	0.44%
41	Daniel	533	0.44%
42	Benjamin	525	0.43%
43	Herbert	513	0.42%
44	Lawrence	468	0.38%
45	Peter	465	0.38%
46	Lee	460	0.38%
47	Grover	454	0.37%
48	Frederick	453	0.37%
49	Leo	444	0.36%
50	Francis	429	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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