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The top names of 1899

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 339,233 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1899

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	13,172	5.65%
2	Anna	5,115	2.20%
3	Helen	5,048	2.17%
4	Margaret	4,249	1.82%
5	Ruth	3,912	1.68%
6	Florence	3,314	1.42%
7	Elizabeth	3,287	1.41%
8	Marie	3,156	1.35%
9	Ethel	2,999	1.29%
10	Lillian	2,703	1.16%
11	Edna	2,534	1.09%
12	Alice	2,523	1.08%
13	Emma	2,445	1.05%
14	Clara	2,441	1.05%
15	Grace	2,353	1.01%
16	Bertha	2,294	0.98%
17	Mildred	2,291	0.98%
18	Annie	2,289	0.98%
19	Bessie	2,280	0.98%
20	Gladys	2,228	0.96%
21	Rose	2,197	0.94%
22	Mabel	2,127	0.91%
23	Gertrude	2,110	0.91%
24	Frances	2,058	0.88%
25	Minnie	2,036	0.87%
26	Hazel	2,033	0.87%
27	Pearl	1,999	0.86%
28	Martha	1,907	0.82%
29	Esther	1,823	0.78%
30	Myrtle	1,821	0.78%
31	Ida	1,804	0.77%
32	Edith	1,794	0.77%
33	Elsie	1,706	0.73%
34	Irene	1,703	0.73%
35	Dorothy	1,687	0.72%
36	Catherine	1,628	0.70%
37	Agnes	1,611	0.69%
38	Sarah	1,587	0.68%
39	Eva	1,582	0.68%
40	Louise	1,536	0.66%
41	Nellie	1,510	0.65%
42	Ella	1,502	0.64%
43	Laura	1,472	0.63%
44	Josephine	1,388	0.60%
45	Lillie	1,350	0.58%
46	Carrie	1,346	0.58%
47	Julia	1,297	0.56%
48	Mattie	1,171	0.50%
49	Lena	1,159	0.50%
50	Viola	1,156	0.50%

Boys, 1899

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	6,990	6.58%
2	William	6,086	5.73%
3	James	4,597	4.33%
4	George	4,018	3.78%
5	Charles	3,147	2.96%
6	Joseph	2,679	2.52%
7	Robert	2,609	2.46%
8	Frank	2,550	2.40%
9	Edward	1,901	1.79%
10	Henry	1,831	1.72%
11	Thomas	1,811	1.71%
12	Walter	1,750	1.65%
13	Harry	1,732	1.63%
14	Arthur	1,357	1.28%
15	Albert	1,210	1.14%
16	Fred	1,182	1.11%
17	Clarence	1,139	1.07%
18	Willie	1,088	1.02%
19	Harold	914	0.86%
20	Roy	912	0.86%
21	Paul	885	0.83%
22	Raymond	869	0.82%
23	Earl	821	0.77%
24	Joe	780	0.73%
25	Carl	774	0.73%
26	Louis	770	0.72%
27	Ernest	744	0.70%
28	Richard	744	0.70%
29	Ralph	742	0.70%
30	Samuel	704	0.66%
31	Charlie	678	0.64%
32	David	646	0.61%
33	Herbert	590	0.56%
34	Howard	589	0.55%
35	Jack	582	0.55%
36	Andrew	578	0.54%
37	Elmer	514	0.48%
38	Francis	501	0.47%
39	Dewey	499	0.47%
40	Lawrence	497	0.47%
41	Alfred	496	0.47%
42	Daniel	485	0.46%
43	Leo	482	0.45%
44	Sam	469	0.44%
45	Eugene	449	0.42%
46	Oscar	447	0.42%
47	Jesse	423	0.40%
48	Will	414	0.39%
49	Herman	413	0.39%
50	Lee	388	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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