Top Names of 1881
The most popular names recorded in 1881 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 6,919 |
| 2 | Anna | 2,698 |
| 3 | Emma | 2,034 |
| 4 | Elizabeth | 1,852 |
| 5 | Margaret | 1,658 |
| 6 | Minnie | 1,653 |
| 7 | Ida | 1,439 |
| 8 | Annie | 1,326 |
| 9 | Bertha | 1,324 |
| 10 | Alice | 1,308 |
| 11 | Clara | 1,242 |
| 12 | Sarah | 1,226 |
| 13 | Ella | 1,148 |
| 14 | Nellie | 1,096 |
| 15 | Grace | 1,089 |
| 16 | Florence | 1,046 |
| 17 | Martha | 1,044 |
| 18 | Cora | 969 |
| 19 | Laura | 962 |
| 20 | Carrie | 958 |
| 21 | Maude | 923 |
| 22 | Bessie | 903 |
| 23 | Mabel | 893 |
| 24 | Gertrude | 791 |
| 25 | Ethel | 788 |
| 26 | Jennie | 784 |
| 27 | Edith | 778 |
| 28 | Hattie | 775 |
| 29 | Mattie | 754 |
| 30 | Julia | 737 |
| 31 | Rose | 734 |
| 32 | Lillian | 723 |
| 33 | Lillie | 678 |
| 34 | Eva | 661 |
| 35 | Jessie | 661 |
| 36 | Lula | 655 |
| 37 | Myrtle | 643 |
| 38 | Pearl | 641 |
| 39 | Edna | 637 |
| 40 | Catherine | 635 |
| 41 | Ada | 628 |
| 42 | Louise | 617 |
| 43 | Helen | 612 |
| 44 | Lucy | 611 |
| 45 | Frances | 586 |
| 46 | Dora | 585 |
| 47 | Fannie | 565 |
| 48 | Josephine | 563 |
| 49 | Daisy | 562 |
| 50 | Lena | 555 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 8,768 |
| 2 | William | 8,524 |
| 3 | James | 5,441 |
| 4 | George | 4,664 |
| 5 | Charles | 4,636 |
| 6 | Frank | 2,834 |
| 7 | Joseph | 2,456 |
| 8 | Henry | 2,339 |
| 9 | Thomas | 2,282 |
| 10 | Edward | 2,177 |
| 11 | Robert | 2,140 |
| 12 | Harry | 2,002 |
| 13 | Walter | 1,670 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,575 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,418 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,319 |
| 17 | Samuel | 919 |
| 18 | David | 750 |
| 19 | Louis | 746 |
| 20 | Charlie | 668 |
| 21 | Clarence | 668 |
| 22 | Richard | 641 |
| 23 | Joe | 639 |
| 24 | Andrew | 588 |
| 25 | Ernest | 571 |
| 26 | Will | 550 |
| 27 | Jesse | 536 |
| 28 | Oscar | 530 |
| 29 | Daniel | 527 |
| 30 | Willie | 498 |
| 31 | Benjamin | 481 |
| 32 | Sam | 481 |
| 33 | Alfred | 466 |
| 34 | Roy | 440 |
| 35 | Lewis | 439 |
| 36 | Frederick | 433 |
| 37 | Peter | 428 |
| 38 | Elmer | 388 |
| 39 | Jacob | 381 |
| 40 | Herbert | 369 |
| 41 | Carl | 359 |
| 42 | Howard | 359 |
| 43 | Tom | 349 |
| 44 | Lee | 342 |
| 45 | Ralph | 329 |
| 46 | Martin | 327 |
| 47 | Jim | 323 |
| 48 | Earl | 314 |
| 49 | Eugene | 314 |
| 50 | Bert | 312 |