Top Names of 1887
The most popular names recorded in 1887 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 9,888 |
| 2 | Anna | 4,227 |
| 3 | Elizabeth | 2,681 |
| 4 | Emma | 2,647 |
| 5 | Margaret | 2,419 |
| 6 | Minnie | 2,215 |
| 7 | Bertha | 2,037 |
| 8 | Clara | 1,984 |
| 9 | Florence | 1,964 |
| 10 | Ida | 1,929 |
| 11 | Ethel | 1,907 |
| 12 | Annie | 1,844 |
| 13 | Bessie | 1,838 |
| 14 | Alice | 1,819 |
| 15 | Grace | 1,692 |
| 16 | Ella | 1,521 |
| 17 | Martha | 1,504 |
| 18 | Mabel | 1,494 |
| 19 | Nellie | 1,457 |
| 20 | Sarah | 1,436 |
| 21 | Helen | 1,405 |
| 22 | Laura | 1,364 |
| 23 | Carrie | 1,344 |
| 24 | Edna | 1,339 |
| 25 | Pearl | 1,316 |
| 26 | Lillian | 1,308 |
| 27 | Cora | 1,257 |
| 28 | Gertrude | 1,251 |
| 29 | Edith | 1,243 |
| 30 | Rose | 1,242 |
| 31 | Maude | 1,162 |
| 32 | Hattie | 1,135 |
| 33 | Eva | 1,125 |
| 34 | Frances | 1,105 |
| 35 | Louise | 1,088 |
| 36 | Myrtle | 1,087 |
| 37 | Lillie | 1,072 |
| 38 | Jennie | 1,047 |
| 39 | Julia | 1,043 |
| 40 | Mattie | 1,031 |
| 41 | Jessie | 1,012 |
| 42 | Lena | 1,004 |
| 43 | Marie | 994 |
| 44 | Catherine | 967 |
| 45 | Ada | 910 |
| 46 | Agnes | 896 |
| 47 | Lula | 891 |
| 48 | Dora | 842 |
| 49 | Elsie | 833 |
| 50 | Josephine | 815 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 8,110 |
| 2 | William | 7,470 |
| 3 | James | 4,768 |
| 4 | George | 4,284 |
| 5 | Charles | 4,031 |
| 6 | Frank | 2,883 |
| 7 | Joseph | 2,456 |
| 8 | Henry | 2,228 |
| 9 | Thomas | 2,151 |
| 10 | Edward | 2,125 |
| 11 | Robert | 2,125 |
| 12 | Harry | 2,057 |
| 13 | Walter | 1,704 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,489 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,454 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,294 |
| 17 | Clarence | 892 |
| 18 | Samuel | 802 |
| 19 | Louis | 791 |
| 20 | Roy | 726 |
| 21 | Joe | 685 |
| 22 | David | 673 |
| 23 | Ernest | 653 |
| 24 | Charlie | 642 |
| 25 | Richard | 622 |
| 26 | Jesse | 601 |
| 27 | Willie | 590 |
| 28 | Carl | 588 |
| 29 | Oscar | 574 |
| 30 | Will | 561 |
| 31 | Daniel | 556 |
| 32 | Earl | 537 |
| 33 | Andrew | 520 |
| 34 | Benjamin | 473 |
| 35 | Alfred | 468 |
| 36 | Elmer | 467 |
| 37 | Frederick | 464 |
| 38 | Ralph | 463 |
| 39 | Sam | 463 |
| 40 | Paul | 449 |
| 41 | Herbert | 445 |
| 42 | Howard | 429 |
| 43 | Peter | 421 |
| 44 | Lee | 400 |
| 45 | Herman | 394 |
| 46 | Claude | 375 |
| 47 | Raymond | 372 |
| 48 | Michael | 344 |
| 49 | Lewis | 343 |
| 50 | Jim | 339 |