Top Names of 1882
The most popular names recorded in 1882 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 8,148 |
| 2 | Anna | 3,143 |
| 3 | Emma | 2,303 |
| 4 | Elizabeth | 2,186 |
| 5 | Minnie | 2,004 |
| 6 | Margaret | 1,821 |
| 7 | Ida | 1,673 |
| 8 | Alice | 1,542 |
| 9 | Bertha | 1,508 |
| 10 | Annie | 1,492 |
| 11 | Clara | 1,490 |
| 12 | Sarah | 1,410 |
| 13 | Florence | 1,322 |
| 14 | Martha | 1,229 |
| 15 | Ella | 1,206 |
| 16 | Grace | 1,195 |
| 17 | Laura | 1,151 |
| 18 | Bessie | 1,144 |
| 19 | Nellie | 1,138 |
| 20 | Maude | 1,089 |
| 21 | Cora | 1,076 |
| 22 | Carrie | 1,037 |
| 23 | Mabel | 997 |
| 24 | Ethel | 989 |
| 25 | Mattie | 966 |
| 26 | Gertrude | 939 |
| 27 | Jennie | 934 |
| 28 | Rose | 886 |
| 29 | Edith | 876 |
| 30 | Hattie | 859 |
| 31 | Helen | 838 |
| 32 | Lillian | 830 |
| 33 | Pearl | 824 |
| 34 | Louise | 813 |
| 35 | Julia | 811 |
| 36 | Lillie | 810 |
| 37 | Jessie | 806 |
| 38 | Myrtle | 803 |
| 39 | Edna | 783 |
| 40 | Lula | 780 |
| 41 | Eva | 765 |
| 42 | Catherine | 726 |
| 43 | Lena | 697 |
| 44 | Ada | 689 |
| 45 | Frances | 681 |
| 46 | Lucy | 673 |
| 47 | Fannie | 650 |
| 48 | Daisy | 648 |
| 49 | Josephine | 638 |
| 50 | Maggie | 627 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 9,557 |
| 2 | William | 9,298 |
| 3 | James | 5,892 |
| 4 | George | 5,193 |
| 5 | Charles | 5,091 |
| 6 | Frank | 3,176 |
| 7 | Joseph | 2,670 |
| 8 | Thomas | 2,610 |
| 9 | Henry | 2,579 |
| 10 | Robert | 2,500 |
| 11 | Edward | 2,477 |
| 12 | Harry | 2,232 |
| 13 | Walter | 1,805 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,686 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,641 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,499 |
| 17 | Samuel | 1,003 |
| 18 | Louis | 852 |
| 19 | David | 838 |
| 20 | Clarence | 837 |
| 21 | Charlie | 753 |
| 22 | Richard | 746 |
| 23 | Joe | 739 |
| 24 | Andrew | 673 |
| 25 | Will | 666 |
| 26 | Jesse | 660 |
| 27 | Ernest | 642 |
| 28 | Oscar | 625 |
| 29 | Daniel | 594 |
| 30 | Sam | 555 |
| 31 | Willie | 541 |
| 32 | Alfred | 523 |
| 33 | Roy | 521 |
| 34 | Benjamin | 478 |
| 35 | Carl | 478 |
| 36 | Peter | 461 |
| 37 | Frederick | 457 |
| 38 | Elmer | 441 |
| 39 | Lewis | 441 |
| 40 | Herbert | 431 |
| 41 | Lee | 427 |
| 42 | Howard | 422 |
| 43 | Ralph | 407 |
| 44 | Paul | 397 |
| 45 | Jim | 396 |
| 46 | Jacob | 390 |
| 47 | Tom | 390 |
| 48 | Martin | 387 |
| 49 | Earl | 377 |
| 50 | Claude | 356 |