Top Names of 1885
The most popular names recorded in 1885 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 9,128 |
| 2 | Anna | 3,994 |
| 3 | Emma | 2,728 |
| 4 | Elizabeth | 2,582 |
| 5 | Margaret | 2,204 |
| 6 | Minnie | 2,178 |
| 7 | Clara | 1,910 |
| 8 | Bertha | 1,860 |
| 9 | Ida | 1,854 |
| 10 | Annie | 1,703 |
| 11 | Alice | 1,681 |
| 12 | Florence | 1,667 |
| 13 | Bessie | 1,588 |
| 14 | Grace | 1,575 |
| 15 | Ethel | 1,495 |
| 16 | Nellie | 1,432 |
| 17 | Martha | 1,425 |
| 18 | Sarah | 1,424 |
| 19 | Ella | 1,395 |
| 20 | Mabel | 1,349 |
| 21 | Laura | 1,325 |
| 22 | Carrie | 1,283 |
| 23 | Cora | 1,253 |
| 24 | Maude | 1,222 |
| 25 | Rose | 1,164 |
| 26 | Pearl | 1,146 |
| 27 | Lillian | 1,143 |
| 28 | Helen | 1,134 |
| 29 | Gertrude | 1,086 |
| 30 | Edna | 1,077 |
| 31 | Edith | 1,071 |
| 32 | Julia | 1,062 |
| 33 | Jennie | 1,045 |
| 34 | Myrtle | 1,026 |
| 35 | Mattie | 1,014 |
| 36 | Hattie | 1,008 |
| 37 | Lillie | 979 |
| 38 | Eva | 971 |
| 39 | Louise | 956 |
| 40 | Jessie | 952 |
| 41 | Lula | 949 |
| 42 | Marie | 885 |
| 43 | Ada | 876 |
| 44 | Lena | 876 |
| 45 | Catherine | 846 |
| 46 | Frances | 844 |
| 47 | Fannie | 783 |
| 48 | Josephine | 783 |
| 49 | Dora | 776 |
| 50 | Katherine | 751 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 8,756 |
| 2 | William | 8,044 |
| 3 | James | 5,175 |
| 4 | George | 4,674 |
| 5 | Charles | 4,599 |
| 6 | Frank | 3,067 |
| 7 | Joseph | 2,540 |
| 8 | Henry | 2,406 |
| 9 | Robert | 2,322 |
| 10 | Thomas | 2,266 |
| 11 | Edward | 2,220 |
| 12 | Harry | 2,198 |
| 13 | Walter | 1,808 |
| 14 | Fred | 1,562 |
| 15 | Arthur | 1,516 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,429 |
| 17 | Clarence | 906 |
| 18 | Samuel | 888 |
| 19 | Louis | 809 |
| 20 | Grover | 768 |
| 21 | Ernest | 718 |
| 22 | David | 712 |
| 23 | Charlie | 705 |
| 24 | Roy | 691 |
| 25 | Joe | 681 |
| 26 | Richard | 672 |
| 27 | Will | 625 |
| 28 | Oscar | 623 |
| 29 | Willie | 614 |
| 30 | Andrew | 599 |
| 31 | Jesse | 556 |
| 32 | Daniel | 535 |
| 33 | Peter | 516 |
| 34 | Carl | 494 |
| 35 | Sam | 492 |
| 36 | Earl | 481 |
| 37 | Frederick | 466 |
| 38 | Benjamin | 464 |
| 39 | Alfred | 446 |
| 40 | Elmer | 443 |
| 41 | Howard | 438 |
| 42 | Lewis | 437 |
| 43 | Paul | 428 |
| 44 | Ralph | 422 |
| 45 | Herbert | 388 |
| 46 | Jim | 370 |
| 47 | Michael | 370 |
| 48 | Tom | 361 |
| 49 | Martin | 357 |
| 50 | Lee | 348 |