Top Names of 1880
The most popular names recorded in 1880 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 7,065 |
| 2 | Anna | 2,604 |
| 3 | Emma | 2,003 |
| 4 | Elizabeth | 1,939 |
| 5 | Minnie | 1,746 |
| 6 | Margaret | 1,578 |
| 7 | Ida | 1,472 |
| 8 | Alice | 1,414 |
| 9 | Bertha | 1,320 |
| 10 | Sarah | 1,288 |
| 11 | Annie | 1,258 |
| 12 | Clara | 1,226 |
| 13 | Ella | 1,156 |
| 14 | Florence | 1,063 |
| 15 | Cora | 1,045 |
| 16 | Martha | 1,040 |
| 17 | Laura | 1,012 |
| 18 | Nellie | 995 |
| 19 | Grace | 982 |
| 20 | Carrie | 949 |
| 21 | Maude | 859 |
| 22 | Mabel | 808 |
| 23 | Bessie | 796 |
| 24 | Jennie | 793 |
| 25 | Gertrude | 787 |
| 26 | Julia | 783 |
| 27 | Hattie | 769 |
| 28 | Edith | 768 |
| 29 | Mattie | 704 |
| 30 | Rose | 700 |
| 31 | Catherine | 688 |
| 32 | Lillian | 672 |
| 33 | Ada | 652 |
| 34 | Lillie | 647 |
| 35 | Helen | 636 |
| 36 | Jessie | 635 |
| 37 | Louise | 635 |
| 38 | Ethel | 633 |
| 39 | Lula | 621 |
| 40 | Myrtle | 615 |
| 41 | Eva | 614 |
| 42 | Frances | 605 |
| 43 | Lena | 603 |
| 44 | Lucy | 590 |
| 45 | Edna | 588 |
| 46 | Maggie | 582 |
| 47 | Pearl | 569 |
| 48 | Daisy | 564 |
| 49 | Fannie | 560 |
| 50 | Josephine | 544 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 9,655 |
| 2 | William | 9,532 |
| 3 | James | 5,927 |
| 4 | Charles | 5,348 |
| 5 | George | 5,126 |
| 6 | Frank | 3,242 |
| 7 | Joseph | 2,632 |
| 8 | Thomas | 2,534 |
| 9 | Henry | 2,444 |
| 10 | Robert | 2,415 |
| 11 | Edward | 2,364 |
| 12 | Harry | 2,152 |
| 13 | Walter | 1,755 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,599 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,569 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,493 |
| 17 | Samuel | 1,024 |
| 18 | David | 869 |
| 19 | Louis | 828 |
| 20 | Joe | 731 |
| 21 | Charlie | 730 |
| 22 | Clarence | 730 |
| 23 | Richard | 728 |
| 24 | Andrew | 644 |
| 25 | Daniel | 643 |
| 26 | Ernest | 615 |
| 27 | Will | 588 |
| 28 | Jesse | 569 |
| 29 | Oscar | 544 |
| 30 | Lewis | 517 |
| 31 | Peter | 496 |
| 32 | Benjamin | 490 |
| 33 | Frederick | 483 |
| 34 | Willie | 476 |
| 35 | Alfred | 469 |
| 36 | Sam | 457 |
| 37 | Roy | 440 |
| 38 | Herbert | 424 |
| 39 | Jacob | 404 |
| 40 | Tom | 399 |
| 41 | Elmer | 373 |
| 42 | Carl | 372 |
| 43 | Lee | 361 |
| 44 | Howard | 357 |
| 45 | Martin | 357 |
| 46 | Michael | 354 |
| 47 | Bert | 348 |
| 48 | Herman | 347 |
| 49 | Jim | 345 |
| 50 | Francis | 344 |