Top Names of 1884
The most popular names recorded in 1884 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 9,217 |
| 2 | Anna | 3,860 |
| 3 | Emma | 2,587 |
| 4 | Elizabeth | 2,549 |
| 5 | Minnie | 2,243 |
| 6 | Margaret | 2,142 |
| 7 | Ida | 1,882 |
| 8 | Clara | 1,852 |
| 9 | Bertha | 1,789 |
| 10 | Annie | 1,739 |
| 11 | Alice | 1,732 |
| 12 | Florence | 1,570 |
| 13 | Grace | 1,525 |
| 14 | Sarah | 1,518 |
| 15 | Bessie | 1,451 |
| 16 | Martha | 1,443 |
| 17 | Nellie | 1,417 |
| 18 | Ethel | 1,386 |
| 19 | Ella | 1,374 |
| 20 | Mabel | 1,270 |
| 21 | Laura | 1,246 |
| 22 | Carrie | 1,245 |
| 23 | Cora | 1,244 |
| 24 | Maude | 1,225 |
| 25 | Pearl | 1,138 |
| 26 | Lillian | 1,109 |
| 27 | Edith | 1,104 |
| 28 | Gertrude | 1,063 |
| 29 | Jennie | 1,063 |
| 30 | Rose | 1,060 |
| 31 | Mattie | 1,007 |
| 32 | Hattie | 993 |
| 33 | Helen | 986 |
| 34 | Myrtle | 979 |
| 35 | Louise | 962 |
| 36 | Edna | 957 |
| 37 | Julia | 935 |
| 38 | Eva | 929 |
| 39 | Lula | 916 |
| 40 | Lillie | 911 |
| 41 | Lena | 906 |
| 42 | Jessie | 888 |
| 43 | Catherine | 874 |
| 44 | Ada | 854 |
| 45 | Josephine | 800 |
| 46 | Frances | 789 |
| 47 | Lucy | 787 |
| 48 | Maggie | 749 |
| 49 | Marie | 746 |
| 50 | Fannie | 738 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 9,388 |
| 2 | William | 8,897 |
| 3 | James | 5,693 |
| 4 | George | 4,961 |
| 5 | Charles | 4,802 |
| 6 | Frank | 3,218 |
| 7 | Joseph | 2,707 |
| 8 | Thomas | 2,572 |
| 9 | Henry | 2,474 |
| 10 | Robert | 2,468 |
| 11 | Edward | 2,439 |
| 12 | Harry | 2,323 |
| 13 | Walter | 1,902 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,690 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,638 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,435 |
| 17 | Samuel | 945 |
| 18 | Clarence | 889 |
| 19 | Louis | 886 |
| 20 | Grover | 802 |
| 21 | David | 761 |
| 22 | Joe | 759 |
| 23 | Richard | 749 |
| 24 | Charlie | 746 |
| 25 | Ernest | 690 |
| 26 | Roy | 680 |
| 27 | Jesse | 670 |
| 28 | Will | 650 |
| 29 | Andrew | 616 |
| 30 | Oscar | 615 |
| 31 | Willie | 578 |
| 32 | Daniel | 573 |
| 33 | Sam | 533 |
| 34 | Peter | 524 |
| 35 | Elmer | 523 |
| 36 | Carl | 521 |
| 37 | Alfred | 520 |
| 38 | Benjamin | 509 |
| 39 | Lewis | 476 |
| 40 | Earl | 464 |
| 41 | Ralph | 464 |
| 42 | Frederick | 454 |
| 43 | Lee | 435 |
| 44 | Howard | 432 |
| 45 | Paul | 422 |
| 46 | Herbert | 421 |
| 47 | Tom | 394 |
| 48 | Herman | 385 |
| 49 | Martin | 385 |
| 50 | Jacob | 381 |