By year
The top names of 1893
Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 325,223 babies in the public record for that year.
Girls, 1893
| # | Name | Babies | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mary | 12,784 | 6.00% |
| 2 | Anna | 5,695 | 2.67% |
| 3 | Ruth | 3,658 | 1.72% |
| 4 | Margaret | 3,565 | 1.67% |
| 5 | Elizabeth | 3,360 | 1.58% |
| 6 | Helen | 3,249 | 1.53% |
| 7 | Florence | 3,231 | 1.52% |
| 8 | Ethel | 3,119 | 1.46% |
| 9 | Emma | 2,968 | 1.39% |
| 10 | Bertha | 2,623 | 1.23% |
| 11 | Clara | 2,532 | 1.19% |
| 12 | Minnie | 2,510 | 1.18% |
| 13 | Alice | 2,434 | 1.14% |
| 14 | Edna | 2,378 | 1.12% |
| 15 | Bessie | 2,352 | 1.10% |
| 16 | Grace | 2,308 | 1.08% |
| 17 | Annie | 2,251 | 1.06% |
| 18 | Ida | 2,247 | 1.06% |
| 19 | Marie | 2,212 | 1.04% |
| 20 | Lillian | 2,193 | 1.03% |
| 21 | Mabel | 2,191 | 1.03% |
| 22 | Hazel | 2,052 | 0.96% |
| 23 | Rose | 2,012 | 0.95% |
| 24 | Gertrude | 1,811 | 0.85% |
| 25 | Martha | 1,805 | 0.85% |
| 26 | Pearl | 1,796 | 0.84% |
| 27 | Nellie | 1,770 | 0.83% |
| 28 | Ella | 1,760 | 0.83% |
| 29 | Myrtle | 1,759 | 0.83% |
| 30 | Edith | 1,733 | 0.81% |
| 31 | Laura | 1,683 | 0.79% |
| 32 | Eva | 1,668 | 0.78% |
| 33 | Sarah | 1,632 | 0.77% |
| 34 | Frances | 1,622 | 0.76% |
| 35 | Elsie | 1,586 | 0.74% |
| 36 | Carrie | 1,451 | 0.68% |
| 37 | Louise | 1,447 | 0.68% |
| 38 | Agnes | 1,393 | 0.65% |
| 39 | Esther | 1,382 | 0.65% |
| 40 | Julia | 1,367 | 0.64% |
| 41 | Lillie | 1,351 | 0.63% |
| 42 | Catherine | 1,336 | 0.63% |
| 43 | Hattie | 1,315 | 0.62% |
| 44 | Cora | 1,308 | 0.61% |
| 45 | Jennie | 1,273 | 0.60% |
| 46 | Lena | 1,261 | 0.59% |
| 47 | Mattie | 1,257 | 0.59% |
| 48 | Jessie | 1,216 | 0.57% |
| 49 | Maude | 1,202 | 0.56% |
| 50 | Josephine | 1,178 | 0.55% |
Boys, 1893
| # | Name | Babies | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John | 8,049 | 7.17% |
| 2 | William | 7,223 | 6.43% |
| 3 | James | 5,030 | 4.48% |
| 4 | George | 4,320 | 3.85% |
| 5 | Charles | 3,723 | 3.31% |
| 6 | Joseph | 2,997 | 2.67% |
| 7 | Frank | 2,917 | 2.60% |
| 8 | Robert | 2,563 | 2.28% |
| 9 | Edward | 2,309 | 2.06% |
| 10 | Harry | 2,245 | 2.00% |
| 11 | Henry | 2,162 | 1.92% |
| 12 | Thomas | 2,157 | 1.92% |
| 13 | Walter | 2,004 | 1.78% |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,635 | 1.46% |
| 15 | Fred | 1,493 | 1.33% |
| 16 | Albert | 1,353 | 1.20% |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,169 | 1.04% |
| 18 | Roy | 919 | 0.82% |
| 19 | Willie | 882 | 0.79% |
| 20 | Samuel | 851 | 0.76% |
| 21 | Earl | 819 | 0.73% |
| 22 | Louis | 816 | 0.73% |
| 23 | Ernest | 796 | 0.71% |
| 24 | Carl | 786 | 0.70% |
| 25 | Paul | 743 | 0.66% |
| 26 | Richard | 732 | 0.65% |
| 27 | David | 724 | 0.64% |
| 28 | Joe | 721 | 0.64% |
| 29 | Raymond | 703 | 0.63% |
| 30 | Charlie | 691 | 0.62% |
| 31 | Ralph | 636 | 0.57% |
| 32 | Elmer | 574 | 0.51% |
| 33 | Oscar | 574 | 0.51% |
| 34 | Harold | 566 | 0.50% |
| 35 | Howard | 556 | 0.50% |
| 36 | Jesse | 541 | 0.48% |
| 37 | Will | 538 | 0.48% |
| 38 | Alfred | 530 | 0.47% |
| 39 | Daniel | 522 | 0.46% |
| 40 | Andrew | 520 | 0.46% |
| 41 | Herbert | 519 | 0.46% |
| 42 | Benjamin | 482 | 0.43% |
| 43 | Sam | 481 | 0.43% |
| 44 | Herman | 455 | 0.41% |
| 45 | Leo | 448 | 0.40% |
| 46 | Lee | 445 | 0.40% |
| 47 | Frederick | 432 | 0.38% |
| 48 | Francis | 418 | 0.37% |
| 49 | Michael | 407 | 0.36% |
| 50 | Jack | 405 | 0.36% |
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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