Top Baby Names of 1894 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1894

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 338,690 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1894

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	13,151	5.90%
2	Anna	5,565	2.50%
3	Margaret	3,700	1.66%
4	Helen	3,676	1.65%
5	Elizabeth	3,425	1.54%
6	Ruth	3,372	1.51%
7	Ethel	3,287	1.47%
8	Florence	3,233	1.45%
9	Emma	2,937	1.32%
10	Marie	2,649	1.19%
11	Clara	2,603	1.17%
12	Minnie	2,592	1.16%
13	Bessie	2,520	1.13%
14	Bertha	2,496	1.12%
15	Edna	2,458	1.10%
16	Lillian	2,441	1.10%
17	Alice	2,414	1.08%
18	Annie	2,393	1.07%
19	Grace	2,361	1.06%
20	Mabel	2,221	1.00%
21	Ida	2,195	0.98%
22	Rose	2,126	0.95%
23	Hazel	2,103	0.94%
24	Martha	1,968	0.88%
25	Gertrude	1,908	0.86%
26	Edith	1,820	0.82%
27	Myrtle	1,818	0.82%
28	Pearl	1,789	0.80%
29	Frances	1,776	0.80%
30	Nellie	1,767	0.79%
31	Ella	1,761	0.79%
32	Laura	1,730	0.78%
33	Elsie	1,716	0.77%
34	Sarah	1,701	0.76%
35	Eva	1,673	0.75%
36	Esther	1,654	0.74%
37	Louise	1,571	0.70%
38	Agnes	1,470	0.66%
39	Carrie	1,452	0.65%
40	Lillie	1,432	0.64%
41	Catherine	1,430	0.64%
42	Lena	1,360	0.61%
43	Irene	1,347	0.60%
44	Hattie	1,325	0.59%
45	Julia	1,320	0.59%
46	Cora	1,319	0.59%
47	Gladys	1,258	0.56%
48	Josephine	1,256	0.56%
49	Mattie	1,238	0.56%
50	Mildred	1,220	0.55%

Boys, 1894

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	8,237	7.12%
2	William	7,274	6.28%
3	James	5,110	4.41%
4	George	4,365	3.77%
5	Charles	3,788	3.27%
6	Joseph	2,977	2.57%
7	Frank	2,863	2.47%
8	Robert	2,497	2.16%
9	Henry	2,278	1.97%
10	Harry	2,189	1.89%
11	Edward	2,179	1.88%
12	Thomas	2,170	1.87%
13	Walter	2,010	1.74%
14	Arthur	1,712	1.48%
15	Fred	1,475	1.27%
16	Albert	1,447	1.25%
17	Clarence	1,185	1.02%
18	Roy	1,018	0.88%
19	Willie	986	0.85%
20	Earl	896	0.77%
21	Louis	869	0.75%
22	Carl	861	0.74%
23	Paul	824	0.71%
24	Ernest	821	0.71%
25	Richard	808	0.70%
26	Samuel	776	0.67%
27	Raymond	767	0.66%
28	Joe	741	0.64%
29	David	729	0.63%
30	Charlie	704	0.61%
31	Ralph	692	0.60%
32	Harold	690	0.60%
33	Howard	612	0.53%
34	Oscar	601	0.52%
35	Andrew	594	0.51%
36	Herbert	585	0.51%
37	Elmer	575	0.50%
38	Jesse	567	0.49%
39	Will	559	0.48%
40	Alfred	521	0.45%
41	Daniel	515	0.44%
42	Leo	515	0.44%
43	Sam	507	0.44%
44	Benjamin	469	0.41%
45	Lee	455	0.39%
46	Floyd	445	0.38%
47	Jack	441	0.38%
48	Herman	433	0.37%
49	Lawrence	430	0.37%
50	Francis	423	0.37%

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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