By year
The top names of 1898
Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 381,454 babies in the public record for that year.
Girls, 1898
| # | Name | Babies | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mary | 14,406 | 5.57% |
| 2 | Anna | 5,773 | 2.23% |
| 3 | Helen | 5,230 | 2.02% |
| 4 | Margaret | 4,696 | 1.81% |
| 5 | Ruth | 4,249 | 1.64% |
| 6 | Florence | 3,790 | 1.46% |
| 7 | Elizabeth | 3,659 | 1.41% |
| 8 | Ethel | 3,531 | 1.36% |
| 9 | Marie | 3,435 | 1.33% |
| 10 | Lillian | 3,061 | 1.18% |
| 11 | Alice | 2,846 | 1.10% |
| 12 | Edna | 2,813 | 1.09% |
| 13 | Emma | 2,788 | 1.08% |
| 14 | Clara | 2,731 | 1.06% |
| 15 | Grace | 2,726 | 1.05% |
| 16 | Bessie | 2,647 | 1.02% |
| 17 | Bertha | 2,642 | 1.02% |
| 18 | Annie | 2,470 | 0.95% |
| 19 | Hazel | 2,439 | 0.94% |
| 20 | Rose | 2,436 | 0.94% |
| 21 | Minnie | 2,409 | 0.93% |
| 22 | Frances | 2,379 | 0.92% |
| 23 | Mabel | 2,331 | 0.90% |
| 24 | Gertrude | 2,302 | 0.89% |
| 25 | Martha | 2,184 | 0.84% |
| 26 | Pearl | 2,158 | 0.83% |
| 27 | Gladys | 2,136 | 0.83% |
| 28 | Mildred | 2,101 | 0.81% |
| 29 | Ida | 2,090 | 0.81% |
| 30 | Myrtle | 2,090 | 0.81% |
| 31 | Esther | 2,047 | 0.79% |
| 32 | Edith | 1,981 | 0.77% |
| 33 | Elsie | 1,919 | 0.74% |
| 34 | Irene | 1,902 | 0.74% |
| 35 | Eva | 1,823 | 0.70% |
| 36 | Nellie | 1,810 | 0.70% |
| 37 | Sarah | 1,800 | 0.70% |
| 38 | Laura | 1,768 | 0.68% |
| 39 | Ella | 1,715 | 0.66% |
| 40 | Agnes | 1,708 | 0.66% |
| 41 | Catherine | 1,705 | 0.66% |
| 42 | Louise | 1,693 | 0.65% |
| 43 | Dorothy | 1,671 | 0.65% |
| 44 | Lillie | 1,522 | 0.59% |
| 45 | Julia | 1,462 | 0.56% |
| 46 | Josephine | 1,425 | 0.55% |
| 47 | Carrie | 1,371 | 0.53% |
| 48 | Hattie | 1,328 | 0.51% |
| 49 | Lena | 1,320 | 0.51% |
| 50 | Mattie | 1,314 | 0.51% |
Boys, 1898
| # | Name | Babies | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John | 8,159 | 6.65% |
| 2 | William | 7,400 | 6.03% |
| 3 | James | 5,321 | 4.34% |
| 4 | George | 4,853 | 3.96% |
| 5 | Charles | 3,557 | 2.90% |
| 6 | Joseph | 3,171 | 2.58% |
| 7 | Robert | 2,932 | 2.39% |
| 8 | Frank | 2,925 | 2.38% |
| 9 | Edward | 2,337 | 1.90% |
| 10 | Thomas | 2,161 | 1.76% |
| 11 | Henry | 2,145 | 1.75% |
| 12 | Harry | 2,129 | 1.74% |
| 13 | Walter | 2,002 | 1.63% |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,619 | 1.32% |
| 15 | Fred | 1,447 | 1.18% |
| 16 | Albert | 1,417 | 1.15% |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,326 | 1.08% |
| 18 | Willie | 1,134 | 0.92% |
| 19 | Dewey | 1,115 | 0.91% |
| 20 | Roy | 1,049 | 0.86% |
| 21 | Paul | 991 | 0.81% |
| 22 | Harold | 963 | 0.78% |
| 23 | Raymond | 929 | 0.76% |
| 24 | Carl | 919 | 0.75% |
| 25 | Earl | 883 | 0.72% |
| 26 | Richard | 871 | 0.71% |
| 27 | Louis | 861 | 0.70% |
| 28 | Ernest | 839 | 0.68% |
| 29 | Joe | 827 | 0.67% |
| 30 | David | 815 | 0.66% |
| 31 | Ralph | 803 | 0.65% |
| 32 | Samuel | 749 | 0.61% |
| 33 | Charlie | 728 | 0.59% |
| 34 | Herbert | 716 | 0.58% |
| 35 | Howard | 706 | 0.58% |
| 36 | Alfred | 645 | 0.53% |
| 37 | Jack | 633 | 0.52% |
| 38 | Andrew | 611 | 0.50% |
| 39 | Leo | 588 | 0.48% |
| 40 | Elmer | 583 | 0.48% |
| 41 | Oscar | 546 | 0.45% |
| 42 | Sam | 543 | 0.44% |
| 43 | Francis | 541 | 0.44% |
| 44 | Lawrence | 533 | 0.43% |
| 45 | Daniel | 523 | 0.43% |
| 46 | Lee | 498 | 0.41% |
| 47 | Jesse | 476 | 0.39% |
| 48 | Will | 475 | 0.39% |
| 49 | Eugene | 473 | 0.39% |
| 50 | Herman | 467 | 0.38% |
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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