Top Names of 1886
The most popular names recorded in 1886 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 9,889 |
| 2 | Anna | 4,283 |
| 3 | Emma | 2,764 |
| 4 | Elizabeth | 2,680 |
| 5 | Minnie | 2,372 |
| 6 | Margaret | 2,275 |
| 7 | Ida | 2,049 |
| 8 | Bertha | 2,001 |
| 9 | Clara | 1,916 |
| 10 | Florence | 1,860 |
| 11 | Alice | 1,811 |
| 12 | Bessie | 1,791 |
| 13 | Annie | 1,765 |
| 14 | Grace | 1,723 |
| 15 | Ethel | 1,699 |
| 16 | Sarah | 1,569 |
| 17 | Nellie | 1,492 |
| 18 | Martha | 1,491 |
| 19 | Ella | 1,464 |
| 20 | Mabel | 1,422 |
| 21 | Carrie | 1,396 |
| 22 | Laura | 1,372 |
| 23 | Edna | 1,314 |
| 24 | Lillian | 1,282 |
| 25 | Helen | 1,267 |
| 26 | Rose | 1,261 |
| 27 | Gertrude | 1,249 |
| 28 | Cora | 1,231 |
| 29 | Pearl | 1,204 |
| 30 | Maude | 1,189 |
| 31 | Edith | 1,184 |
| 32 | Eva | 1,155 |
| 33 | Hattie | 1,139 |
| 34 | Jennie | 1,100 |
| 35 | Myrtle | 1,094 |
| 36 | Julia | 1,061 |
| 37 | Louise | 1,061 |
| 38 | Frances | 1,059 |
| 39 | Mattie | 1,044 |
| 40 | Lula | 1,040 |
| 41 | Jessie | 1,003 |
| 42 | Lillie | 995 |
| 43 | Lena | 992 |
| 44 | Marie | 988 |
| 45 | Catherine | 916 |
| 46 | Ada | 915 |
| 47 | Josephine | 844 |
| 48 | Fannie | 837 |
| 49 | Dora | 827 |
| 50 | Lucy | 817 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 9,026 |
| 2 | William | 8,252 |
| 3 | James | 5,355 |
| 4 | George | 4,671 |
| 5 | Charles | 4,533 |
| 6 | Frank | 3,127 |
| 7 | Joseph | 2,594 |
| 8 | Robert | 2,443 |
| 9 | Henry | 2,404 |
| 10 | Thomas | 2,337 |
| 11 | Edward | 2,312 |
| 12 | Harry | 2,257 |
| 13 | Walter | 1,880 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,656 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,599 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,488 |
| 17 | Clarence | 995 |
| 18 | Samuel | 870 |
| 19 | Louis | 846 |
| 20 | Roy | 767 |
| 21 | Joe | 759 |
| 22 | Charlie | 723 |
| 23 | Richard | 720 |
| 24 | David | 674 |
| 25 | Ernest | 668 |
| 26 | Oscar | 645 |
| 27 | Will | 642 |
| 28 | Willie | 641 |
| 29 | Andrew | 614 |
| 30 | Jesse | 614 |
| 31 | Earl | 570 |
| 32 | Carl | 556 |
| 33 | Daniel | 555 |
| 34 | Sam | 519 |
| 35 | Elmer | 485 |
| 36 | Alfred | 480 |
| 37 | Howard | 467 |
| 38 | Paul | 466 |
| 39 | Benjamin | 463 |
| 40 | Frederick | 461 |
| 41 | Ralph | 440 |
| 42 | Peter | 437 |
| 43 | Lewis | 431 |
| 44 | Herman | 418 |
| 45 | Grover | 407 |
| 46 | Herbert | 400 |
| 47 | Lee | 399 |
| 48 | Claude | 391 |
| 49 | Jim | 389 |
| 50 | Tom | 383 |