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The top names of 1900

Mary led the girls and John the boys, out of 450,258 babies in the public record for that year.

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Girls, 1900

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	Mary	16,705	5.57%
2	Helen	6,342	2.12%
3	Anna	6,114	2.04%
4	Margaret	5,304	1.77%
5	Ruth	4,765	1.59%
6	Elizabeth	4,096	1.37%
7	Florence	3,920	1.31%
8	Ethel	3,896	1.30%
9	Marie	3,856	1.29%
10	Lillian	3,414	1.14%
11	Annie	3,324	1.11%
12	Edna	3,102	1.03%
13	Emma	3,095	1.03%
14	Alice	3,059	1.02%
15	Bessie	3,044	1.02%
16	Bertha	3,019	1.01%
17	Grace	2,942	0.98%
18	Rose	2,844	0.95%
19	Clara	2,826	0.94%
20	Mildred	2,800	0.93%
21	Gladys	2,733	0.91%
22	Minnie	2,673	0.89%
23	Gertrude	2,580	0.86%
24	Pearl	2,512	0.84%
25	Mabel	2,509	0.84%
26	Frances	2,495	0.83%
27	Dorothy	2,491	0.83%
28	Martha	2,437	0.81%
29	Hazel	2,425	0.81%
30	Ida	2,285	0.76%
31	Irene	2,264	0.76%
32	Myrtle	2,252	0.75%
33	Eva	2,089	0.70%
34	Catherine	2,081	0.69%
35	Louise	2,070	0.69%
36	Edith	2,068	0.69%
37	Sarah	2,054	0.69%
38	Elsie	2,045	0.68%
39	Esther	2,017	0.67%
40	Lillie	2,004	0.67%
41	Agnes	1,914	0.64%
42	Ella	1,911	0.64%
43	Nellie	1,850	0.62%
44	Mattie	1,834	0.61%
45	Laura	1,824	0.61%
46	Julia	1,766	0.59%
47	Josephine	1,743	0.58%
48	Carrie	1,711	0.57%
49	Viola	1,674	0.56%
50	Hattie	1,553	0.52%

Boys, 1900

#	Name	Babies	Share
1	John	9,828	6.53%
2	William	8,579	5.70%
3	James	7,245	4.81%
4	George	5,403	3.59%
5	Charles	4,098	2.72%
6	Robert	3,821	2.54%
7	Joseph	3,714	2.47%
8	Frank	3,477	2.31%
9	Edward	2,720	1.81%
10	Henry	2,606	1.73%
11	Thomas	2,556	1.70%
12	Walter	2,298	1.53%
13	Harry	2,272	1.51%
14	Willie	2,113	1.40%
15	Arthur	1,853	1.23%
16	Albert	1,741	1.16%
17	Fred	1,646	1.09%
18	Clarence	1,483	0.99%
19	Paul	1,288	0.86%
20	Harold	1,245	0.83%
21	Roy	1,215	0.81%
22	Joe	1,179	0.78%
23	Raymond	1,150	0.76%
24	Richard	1,141	0.76%
25	Charlie	1,124	0.75%
26	Louis	1,097	0.73%
27	Jack	1,053	0.70%
28	Earl	1,037	0.69%
29	Carl	1,016	0.68%
30	Ernest	1,012	0.67%
31	Ralph	896	0.60%
32	David	883	0.59%
33	Samuel	877	0.58%
34	Sam	821	0.55%
35	Howard	779	0.52%
36	Herbert	751	0.50%
37	Andrew	718	0.48%
38	Elmer	699	0.46%
39	Lee	675	0.45%
40	Lawrence	659	0.44%
41	Francis	652	0.43%
42	Alfred	640	0.43%
43	Will	603	0.40%
44	Daniel	598	0.40%
45	Eugene	587	0.39%
46	Leo	570	0.38%
47	Oscar	563	0.37%
48	Floyd	555	0.37%
49	Herman	550	0.37%
50	Jesse	536	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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