Top 100 names of the 1890s

Boys

Rank Name Count Percent
1 John 80664 7.07
2 William 72244 6.33
3 James 50723 4.45
4 George 43358 3.8
5 Charles 36848 3.23
6 Joseph 29000 2.54
7 Frank 28718 2.52
8 Robert 26147 2.29
9 Edward 22033 1.93
10 Henry 21664 1.9
11 Harry 21330 1.87
12 Thomas 21115 1.85
13 Walter 19495 1.71
14 Arthur 16349 1.43
15 Fred 14270 1.25
16 Albert 13753 1.21
17 Clarence 11900 1.04
18 Willie 9849 0.86
19 Roy 9779 0.86
20 Louis 8442 0.74
21 Earl 8297 0.73
22 Paul 8181 0.72
23 Carl 8047 0.71
24 Ernest 7877 0.69
25 Samuel 7857 0.69
26 Richard 7572 0.66
27 Raymond 7572 0.66
28 Joe 7482 0.66
29 David 7333 0.64
30 Charlie 7261 0.64
31 Harold 7018 0.62
32 Ralph 6951 0.61
33 Howard 5949 0.52
34 Andrew 5719 0.5
35 Herbert 5660 0.5
36 Elmer 5647 0.49
37 Oscar 5612 0.49
38 Jesse 5396 0.47
39 Alfred 5373 0.47
40 Will 5210 0.46
41 Daniel 5185 0.45
42 Sam 4941 0.43
43 Leo 4691 0.41
44 Jack 4635 0.41
45 Lawrence 4597 0.4
46 Francis 4535 0.4
47 Benjamin 4460 0.39
48 Lee 4384 0.38
49 Eugene 4303 0.38
50 Herman 4232 0.37
51 Peter 4028 0.35
52 Frederick 3994 0.35
53 Floyd 3957 0.35
54 Michael 3926 0.34
55 Ray 3763 0.33
56 Lewis 3699 0.32
57 Claude 3636 0.32
58 Clyde 3625 0.32
59 Edwin 3505 0.31
60 Tom 3335 0.29
61 Martin 3254 0.29
62 Leonard 3166 0.28
63 Ben 3156 0.28
64 Chester 3021 0.26
65 Edgar 2982 0.26
66 Jim 2841 0.25
67 Harvey 2822 0.25
68 Russell 2780 0.24
69 Lester 2702 0.24
70 Clifford 2701 0.24
71 Luther 2668 0.23
72 Homer 2637 0.23
73 Jacob 2551 0.22
74 Leroy 2544 0.22
75 Otto 2543 0.22
76 Guy 2487 0.22
77 Lloyd 2480 0.22
78 Anthony 2453 0.21
79 Jessie 2424 0.21
80 Hugh 2405 0.21
81 Ed 2346 0.21
82 Bernard 2315 0.2
83 Theodore 2300 0.2
84 Stanley 2297 0.2
85 Eddie 2284 0.2
86 Patrick 2233 0.2
87 Philip 2147 0.19
88 Leon 2103 0.18
89 Archie 2068 0.18
90 Leslie 2063 0.18
91 Oliver 2035 0.18
92 Allen 2002 0.18
93 Alexander 1954 0.17
94 Dewey 1921 0.17
95 Ira 1916 0.17
96 Everett 1902 0.17
97 Norman 1891 0.17
98 Horace 1814 0.16
99 Victor 1811 0.16
100 Cecil 1808 0.16

Girls

Rank Name Count Percent
1 Mary 131138 5.9
2 Anna 55261 2.49
3 Margaret 37937 1.71
4 Helen 37802 1.7
5 Elizabeth 33879 1.53
6 Ruth 32867 1.48
7 Florence 32344 1.46
8 Ethel 31453 1.42
9 Emma 28652 1.29
10 Marie 25853 1.16
11 Clara 25473 1.15
12 Bertha 25125 1.13
13 Minnie 24615 1.11
14 Bessie 24417 1.1
15 Alice 24415 1.1
16 Lillian 24106 1.09
17 Edna 24068 1.08
18 Grace 23804 1.07
19 Annie 23122 1.04
20 Mabel 21991 0.99
21 Ida 21212 0.95
22 Rose 21134 0.95
23 Hazel 20154 0.91
24 Gertrude 19898 0.9
25 Martha 19415 0.87
26 Pearl 19054 0.86
27 Frances 18090 0.81
28 Myrtle 17717 0.8
29 Edith 17650 0.79
30 Nellie 17285 0.78
31 Sarah 17154 0.77
32 Ella 17072 0.77
33 Eva 16460 0.74
34 Laura 16433 0.74
35 Elsie 16375 0.74
36 Louise 15174 0.68
37 Esther 14737 0.66
38 Catherine 14502 0.65
39 Agnes 14429 0.65
40 Carrie 14276 0.64
41 Lillie 14093 0.63
42 Mildred 13792 0.62
43 Gladys 13622 0.61
44 Irene 13621 0.61
45 Julia 13448 0.61
46 Hattie 12909 0.58
47 Cora 12880 0.58
48 Lena 12491 0.56
49 Josephine 12463 0.56
50 Mattie 12449 0.56
51 Jennie 11876 0.53
52 Jessie 11870 0.53
53 Maude 11304 0.51
54 Alma 11184 0.5
55 Mae 10918 0.49
56 Blanche 10860 0.49
57 Dorothy 10846 0.49
58 Ada 10379 0.47
59 Lucy 10323 0.46
60 Lula 10238 0.46
61 Mamie 10085 0.45
62 Fannie 9898 0.45
63 Stella 9807 0.44
64 Katherine 9408 0.42
65 Viola 9386 0.42
66 Ruby 8699 0.39
67 Dora 8684 0.39
68 Maggie 8607 0.39
69 Nora 8293 0.37
70 Rosa 7881 0.35
71 Beatrice 7500 0.34
72 Ellen 7435 0.33
73 Sadie 7398 0.33
74 Marion 7310 0.33
75 Willie 7109 0.32
76 Effie 6961 0.31
77 May 6880 0.31
78 Beulah 6785 0.31
79 Pauline 6635 0.3
80 Nettie 6538 0.29
81 Susie 6530 0.29
82 Della 6410 0.29
83 Vera 6377 0.29
84 Marguerite 6376 0.29
85 Daisy 6249 0.28
86 Lydia 5942 0.27
87 Virginia 5864 0.26
88 Olive 5713 0.26
89 Kathryn 5653 0.25
90 Evelyn 5648 0.25
91 Sallie 5580 0.25
92 Lizzie 5556 0.25
93 Lottie 5499 0.25
94 Emily 5476 0.25
95 Georgia 5445 0.25
96 Flora 5442 0.24
97 Nancy 5346 0.24
98 Katie 5178 0.23
99 Lucille 5105 0.23
100 Leona 5083 0.23