Top Baby Names of 1896 · Kiddos Treehouse

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The top names of 1896

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 357,483 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1896

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	13,811	5.80%
2	Anna	5,860	2.46%
3	Helen	4,392	1.85%
4	Margaret	4,050	1.70%
5	Ruth	3,905	1.64%
6	Ethel	3,502	1.47%
7	Elizabeth	3,471	1.46%
8	Florence	3,323	1.40%
9	Marie	3,087	1.30%
10	Emma	2,872	1.21%
11	Lillian	2,702	1.14%
12	Alice	2,651	1.11%
13	Edna	2,604	1.09%
14	Clara	2,582	1.09%
15	Bertha	2,565	1.08%
16	Minnie	2,530	1.06%
17	Grace	2,485	1.04%
18	Bessie	2,435	1.02%
19	Annie	2,358	0.99%
20	Rose	2,341	0.98%
21	Mabel	2,283	0.96%
22	Hazel	2,226	0.94%
23	Gertrude	2,221	0.93%
24	Ida	2,159	0.91%
25	Pearl	2,101	0.88%
26	Martha	2,022	0.85%
27	Esther	1,964	0.83%
28	Frances	1,964	0.83%
29	Edith	1,932	0.81%
30	Myrtle	1,928	0.81%
31	Elsie	1,878	0.79%
32	Eva	1,779	0.75%
33	Gladys	1,757	0.74%
34	Nellie	1,696	0.71%
35	Sarah	1,691	0.71%
36	Ella	1,683	0.71%
37	Laura	1,665	0.70%
38	Agnes	1,654	0.70%
39	Mildred	1,620	0.68%
40	Catherine	1,594	0.67%
41	Irene	1,593	0.67%
42	Louise	1,531	0.64%
43	Lillie	1,483	0.62%
44	Julia	1,407	0.59%
45	Carrie	1,388	0.58%
46	Dorothy	1,366	0.57%
47	Hattie	1,320	0.55%
48	Lena	1,318	0.55%
49	Mattie	1,288	0.54%
50	Josephine	1,256	0.53%

Boys, 1896

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	8,138	6.81%
2	William	7,747	6.48%
3	James	5,206	4.35%
4	George	4,286	3.58%
5	Charles	3,639	3.04%
6	Joseph	3,051	2.55%
7	Frank	2,845	2.38%
8	Robert	2,719	2.27%
9	Edward	2,296	1.92%
10	Henry	2,183	1.83%
11	Harry	2,091	1.75%
12	Thomas	2,088	1.75%
13	Walter	2,017	1.69%
14	Arthur	1,821	1.52%
15	Albert	1,434	1.20%
16	Fred	1,393	1.17%
17	Clarence	1,254	1.05%
18	Willie	1,092	0.91%
19	Roy	1,027	0.86%
20	Paul	964	0.81%
21	Earl	892	0.75%
22	Louis	871	0.73%
23	Harold	862	0.72%
24	Raymond	859	0.72%
25	Carl	852	0.71%
26	Richard	834	0.70%
27	Joe	767	0.64%
28	David	765	0.64%
29	Ernest	764	0.64%
30	Ralph	746	0.62%
31	Samuel	734	0.61%
32	Charlie	714	0.60%
33	Howard	677	0.57%
34	Herbert	635	0.53%
35	Jesse	586	0.49%
36	Elmer	576	0.48%
37	Andrew	566	0.47%
38	Daniel	561	0.47%
39	Francis	551	0.46%
40	Jack	539	0.45%
41	Oscar	539	0.45%
42	Alfred	527	0.44%
43	Sam	518	0.43%
44	Will	508	0.42%
45	Eugene	507	0.42%
46	Lawrence	499	0.42%
47	Leo	497	0.42%
48	Lee	455	0.38%
49	Herman	427	0.36%
50	Ray	426	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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