Top Names of 1888
The most popular names recorded in 1888 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 11,754 |
| 2 | Anna | 4,982 |
| 3 | Elizabeth | 3,224 |
| 4 | Emma | 3,087 |
| 5 | Margaret | 2,904 |
| 6 | Minnie | 2,654 |
| 7 | Bertha | 2,450 |
| 8 | Florence | 2,444 |
| 9 | Ethel | 2,374 |
| 10 | Bessie | 2,278 |
| 11 | Clara | 2,230 |
| 12 | Ida | 2,229 |
| 13 | Alice | 2,202 |
| 14 | Annie | 2,188 |
| 15 | Grace | 2,090 |
| 16 | Helen | 1,847 |
| 17 | Mabel | 1,830 |
| 18 | Ella | 1,774 |
| 19 | Martha | 1,769 |
| 20 | Sarah | 1,755 |
| 21 | Nellie | 1,736 |
| 22 | Edna | 1,687 |
| 23 | Lillian | 1,656 |
| 24 | Carrie | 1,647 |
| 25 | Laura | 1,624 |
| 26 | Pearl | 1,591 |
| 27 | Rose | 1,590 |
| 28 | Gertrude | 1,468 |
| 29 | Edith | 1,453 |
| 30 | Frances | 1,452 |
| 31 | Cora | 1,433 |
| 32 | Maude | 1,396 |
| 33 | Louise | 1,334 |
| 34 | Eva | 1,329 |
| 35 | Myrtle | 1,310 |
| 36 | Hattie | 1,298 |
| 37 | Jennie | 1,298 |
| 38 | Julia | 1,292 |
| 39 | Mattie | 1,268 |
| 40 | Marie | 1,258 |
| 41 | Lillie | 1,249 |
| 42 | Catherine | 1,212 |
| 43 | Jessie | 1,200 |
| 44 | Lula | 1,173 |
| 45 | Lena | 1,162 |
| 46 | Ada | 1,116 |
| 47 | Elsie | 1,112 |
| 48 | Agnes | 1,046 |
| 49 | Josephine | 1,001 |
| 50 | Fannie | 991 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 9,247 |
| 2 | William | 8,705 |
| 3 | James | 5,562 |
| 4 | George | 4,912 |
| 5 | Charles | 4,591 |
| 6 | Frank | 3,459 |
| 7 | Joseph | 2,993 |
| 8 | Robert | 2,814 |
| 9 | Harry | 2,759 |
| 10 | Henry | 2,596 |
| 11 | Edward | 2,470 |
| 12 | Thomas | 2,449 |
| 13 | Walter | 2,040 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,710 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,665 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,569 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,022 |
| 18 | Samuel | 931 |
| 19 | Louis | 884 |
| 20 | Roy | 856 |
| 21 | David | 801 |
| 22 | Charlie | 796 |
| 23 | Joe | 789 |
| 24 | Willie | 786 |
| 25 | Benjamin | 781 |
| 26 | Richard | 772 |
| 27 | Ernest | 766 |
| 28 | Will | 707 |
| 29 | Carl | 675 |
| 30 | Earl | 675 |
| 31 | Oscar | 647 |
| 32 | Jesse | 637 |
| 33 | Andrew | 615 |
| 34 | Sam | 607 |
| 35 | Daniel | 566 |
| 36 | Ralph | 547 |
| 37 | Alfred | 536 |
| 38 | Paul | 529 |
| 39 | Elmer | 527 |
| 40 | Howard | 513 |
| 41 | Peter | 498 |
| 42 | Frederick | 496 |
| 43 | Herbert | 485 |
| 44 | Grover | 474 |
| 45 | Raymond | 469 |
| 46 | Michael | 466 |
| 47 | Ben | 463 |
| 48 | Lee | 430 |
| 49 | Tom | 416 |
| 50 | Lewis | 412 |