Top Names of 1889
The most popular names recorded in 1889 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 11,648 |
| 2 | Anna | 5,062 |
| 3 | Elizabeth | 3,058 |
| 4 | Margaret | 2,917 |
| 5 | Emma | 2,884 |
| 6 | Minnie | 2,624 |
| 7 | Florence | 2,465 |
| 8 | Ethel | 2,463 |
| 9 | Bessie | 2,343 |
| 10 | Clara | 2,319 |
| 11 | Bertha | 2,293 |
| 12 | Alice | 2,145 |
| 13 | Annie | 2,123 |
| 14 | Ida | 2,122 |
| 15 | Grace | 2,049 |
| 16 | Mabel | 1,947 |
| 17 | Helen | 1,909 |
| 18 | Edna | 1,815 |
| 19 | Nellie | 1,752 |
| 20 | Sarah | 1,730 |
| 21 | Martha | 1,711 |
| 22 | Ella | 1,647 |
| 23 | Lillian | 1,640 |
| 24 | Pearl | 1,588 |
| 25 | Laura | 1,567 |
| 26 | Rose | 1,550 |
| 27 | Carrie | 1,547 |
| 28 | Gertrude | 1,543 |
| 29 | Edith | 1,523 |
| 30 | Marie | 1,436 |
| 31 | Eva | 1,372 |
| 32 | Cora | 1,365 |
| 33 | Myrtle | 1,361 |
| 34 | Frances | 1,351 |
| 35 | Hattie | 1,328 |
| 36 | Maude | 1,293 |
| 37 | Lillie | 1,289 |
| 38 | Louise | 1,283 |
| 39 | Jennie | 1,252 |
| 40 | Julia | 1,201 |
| 41 | Elsie | 1,199 |
| 42 | Catherine | 1,198 |
| 43 | Jessie | 1,196 |
| 44 | Mattie | 1,173 |
| 45 | Lena | 1,096 |
| 46 | Ruth | 1,073 |
| 47 | Lula | 1,067 |
| 48 | Hazel | 1,056 |
| 49 | Josephine | 1,047 |
| 50 | Agnes | 1,033 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 8,548 |
| 2 | William | 7,772 |
| 3 | James | 5,020 |
| 4 | George | 4,430 |
| 5 | Charles | 4,199 |
| 6 | Frank | 2,975 |
| 7 | Joseph | 2,729 |
| 8 | Harry | 2,559 |
| 9 | Robert | 2,513 |
| 10 | Edward | 2,299 |
| 11 | Henry | 2,286 |
| 12 | Thomas | 2,233 |
| 13 | Walter | 1,916 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,668 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,554 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,353 |
| 17 | Clarence | 984 |
| 18 | Roy | 888 |
| 19 | Louis | 837 |
| 20 | Samuel | 810 |
| 21 | Benjamin | 760 |
| 22 | David | 757 |
| 23 | Ernest | 736 |
| 24 | Richard | 711 |
| 25 | Joe | 709 |
| 26 | Willie | 708 |
| 27 | Carl | 704 |
| 28 | Earl | 688 |
| 29 | Charlie | 685 |
| 30 | Will | 631 |
| 31 | Jesse | 576 |
| 32 | Oscar | 572 |
| 33 | Andrew | 561 |
| 34 | Elmer | 557 |
| 35 | Paul | 555 |
| 36 | Daniel | 515 |
| 37 | Raymond | 511 |
| 38 | Howard | 503 |
| 39 | Ralph | 495 |
| 40 | Sam | 486 |
| 41 | Alfred | 472 |
| 42 | Herbert | 472 |
| 43 | Ben | 453 |
| 44 | Frederick | 451 |
| 45 | Peter | 425 |
| 46 | Lee | 415 |
| 47 | Lewis | 414 |
| 48 | Herman | 405 |
| 49 | Claude | 386 |
| 50 | Tom | 379 |