Top Baby Names of 1895 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1895

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 351,020 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1895

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	13,447	5.76%
2	Anna	5,950	2.55%
3	Helen	4,023	1.72%
4	Margaret	3,931	1.68%
5	Elizabeth	3,603	1.54%
6	Ruth	3,551	1.52%
7	Florence	3,471	1.49%
8	Ethel	3,391	1.45%
9	Marie	3,011	1.29%
10	Emma	2,952	1.26%
11	Bertha	2,626	1.12%
12	Clara	2,613	1.12%
13	Minnie	2,567	1.10%
14	Edna	2,560	1.10%
15	Bessie	2,542	1.09%
16	Lillian	2,495	1.07%
17	Alice	2,457	1.05%
18	Grace	2,448	1.05%
19	Annie	2,390	1.02%
20	Mabel	2,359	1.01%
21	Rose	2,262	0.97%
22	Hazel	2,252	0.96%
23	Ida	2,170	0.93%
24	Gertrude	2,129	0.91%
25	Martha	2,096	0.90%
26	Pearl	1,958	0.84%
27	Edith	1,940	0.83%
28	Myrtle	1,938	0.83%
29	Frances	1,833	0.78%
30	Nellie	1,833	0.78%
31	Esther	1,803	0.77%
32	Elsie	1,795	0.77%
33	Sarah	1,777	0.76%
34	Eva	1,767	0.76%
35	Ella	1,692	0.72%
36	Laura	1,643	0.70%
37	Louise	1,582	0.68%
38	Catherine	1,514	0.65%
39	Mildred	1,474	0.63%
40	Agnes	1,466	0.63%
41	Gladys	1,464	0.63%
42	Carrie	1,463	0.63%
43	Irene	1,428	0.61%
44	Lillie	1,414	0.61%
45	Julia	1,380	0.59%
46	Hattie	1,338	0.57%
47	Josephine	1,334	0.57%
48	Jessie	1,300	0.56%
49	Cora	1,295	0.55%
50	Lena	1,289	0.55%

Boys, 1895

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	8,320	7.09%
2	William	7,277	6.20%
3	James	5,335	4.54%
4	George	4,289	3.65%
5	Charles	3,633	3.09%
6	Frank	3,012	2.57%
7	Joseph	2,992	2.55%
8	Robert	2,635	2.24%
9	Henry	2,221	1.89%
10	Edward	2,203	1.88%
11	Thomas	2,153	1.83%
12	Harry	2,128	1.81%
13	Walter	2,015	1.72%
14	Arthur	1,666	1.42%
15	Fred	1,483	1.26%
16	Albert	1,391	1.18%
17	Clarence	1,326	1.13%
18	Willie	1,071	0.91%
19	Roy	1,028	0.88%
20	Paul	933	0.79%
21	Louis	913	0.78%
22	Carl	851	0.72%
23	Earl	851	0.72%
24	Ernest	834	0.71%
25	Samuel	814	0.69%
26	Raymond	806	0.69%
27	Charlie	767	0.65%
28	Joe	763	0.65%
29	Harold	753	0.64%
30	Ralph	736	0.63%
31	Richard	727	0.62%
32	David	707	0.60%
33	Howard	641	0.55%
34	Elmer	610	0.52%
35	Jesse	577	0.49%
36	Herbert	569	0.48%
37	Andrew	562	0.48%
38	Alfred	551	0.47%
39	Oscar	549	0.47%
40	Daniel	516	0.44%
41	Lawrence	509	0.43%
42	Leo	509	0.43%
43	Sam	487	0.41%
44	Will	485	0.41%
45	Francis	480	0.41%
46	Jack	479	0.41%
47	Lee	478	0.41%
48	Benjamin	452	0.39%
49	Herman	439	0.37%
50	Eugene	430	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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