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The top names of 1897

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 346,957 babies in the public record for that year.

Girls, 1897

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	13,413	5.73%
2	Anna	5,429	2.32%
3	Helen	4,519	1.93%
4	Margaret	4,146	1.77%
5	Ruth	3,878	1.66%
6	Elizabeth	3,442	1.47%
7	Florence	3,369	1.44%
8	Ethel	3,182	1.36%
9	Marie	3,078	1.31%
10	Emma	2,698	1.15%
11	Lillian	2,683	1.15%
12	Edna	2,567	1.10%
13	Bertha	2,502	1.07%
14	Grace	2,458	1.05%
15	Clara	2,454	1.05%
16	Alice	2,431	1.04%
17	Bessie	2,407	1.03%
18	Hazel	2,339	1.00%
19	Rose	2,316	0.99%
20	Annie	2,307	0.99%
21	Minnie	2,284	0.98%
22	Mabel	2,222	0.95%
23	Gertrude	2,135	0.91%
24	Ida	2,108	0.90%
25	Pearl	2,076	0.89%
26	Martha	1,990	0.85%
27	Frances	1,975	0.84%
28	Esther	1,911	0.82%
29	Myrtle	1,833	0.78%
30	Edith	1,823	0.78%
31	Elsie	1,763	0.75%
32	Gladys	1,737	0.74%
33	Mildred	1,723	0.74%
34	Sarah	1,713	0.73%
35	Eva	1,709	0.73%
36	Ella	1,708	0.73%
37	Nellie	1,693	0.72%
38	Irene	1,587	0.68%
39	Laura	1,585	0.68%
40	Agnes	1,579	0.67%
41	Louise	1,563	0.67%
42	Catherine	1,511	0.65%
43	Dorothy	1,472	0.63%
44	Lillie	1,401	0.60%
45	Julia	1,380	0.59%
46	Carrie	1,365	0.58%
47	Josephine	1,267	0.54%
48	Hattie	1,251	0.53%
49	Cora	1,246	0.53%
50	Lena	1,239	0.53%

Boys, 1897

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	7,550	6.70%
2	William	7,198	6.38%
3	James	5,113	4.53%
4	George	4,078	3.62%
5	Charles	3,341	2.96%
6	Joseph	2,827	2.51%
7	Frank	2,726	2.42%
8	Robert	2,701	2.40%
9	Edward	2,121	1.88%
10	Henry	1,994	1.77%
11	Thomas	1,980	1.76%
12	Walter	1,895	1.68%
13	Harry	1,879	1.67%
14	Arthur	1,647	1.46%
15	Albert	1,377	1.22%
16	Fred	1,301	1.15%
17	Clarence	1,201	1.07%
18	Willie	1,151	1.02%
19	Roy	999	0.89%
20	Paul	923	0.82%
21	Harold	860	0.76%
22	Raymond	837	0.74%
23	Louis	831	0.74%
24	Earl	829	0.74%
25	Carl	828	0.73%
26	Joe	798	0.71%
27	Ernest	785	0.70%
28	Samuel	759	0.67%
29	David	730	0.65%
30	Charlie	714	0.63%
31	Richard	702	0.62%
32	Ralph	697	0.62%
33	Howard	634	0.56%
34	Elmer	587	0.52%
35	Herbert	565	0.50%
36	Andrew	555	0.49%
37	Oscar	543	0.48%
38	Jesse	529	0.47%
39	Daniel	520	0.46%
40	Alfred	513	0.45%
41	Lawrence	505	0.45%
42	Jack	497	0.44%
43	Francis	496	0.44%
44	Will	491	0.44%
45	Sam	478	0.42%
46	Leo	462	0.41%
47	Lee	453	0.40%
48	Floyd	451	0.40%
49	Eugene	447	0.40%
50	Herman	412	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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