Top Names of 1890
The most popular names recorded in 1890 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 12,078 |
| 2 | Anna | 5,233 |
| 3 | Elizabeth | 3,112 |
| 4 | Margaret | 3,100 |
| 5 | Emma | 2,980 |
| 6 | Florence | 2,744 |
| 7 | Ethel | 2,718 |
| 8 | Minnie | 2,650 |
| 9 | Clara | 2,496 |
| 10 | Bertha | 2,388 |
| 11 | Bessie | 2,370 |
| 12 | Helen | 2,312 |
| 13 | Grace | 2,278 |
| 14 | Alice | 2,271 |
| 15 | Annie | 2,220 |
| 16 | Ida | 2,178 |
| 17 | Mabel | 2,058 |
| 18 | Edna | 1,973 |
| 19 | Lillian | 1,862 |
| 20 | Nellie | 1,821 |
| 21 | Sarah | 1,786 |
| 22 | Martha | 1,784 |
| 23 | Ella | 1,758 |
| 24 | Pearl | 1,741 |
| 25 | Rose | 1,725 |
| 26 | Gertrude | 1,713 |
| 27 | Laura | 1,634 |
| 28 | Marie | 1,563 |
| 29 | Carrie | 1,510 |
| 30 | Edith | 1,493 |
| 31 | Louise | 1,472 |
| 32 | Eva | 1,436 |
| 33 | Frances | 1,416 |
| 34 | Myrtle | 1,406 |
| 35 | Lillie | 1,390 |
| 36 | Cora | 1,386 |
| 37 | Hazel | 1,366 |
| 38 | Hattie | 1,363 |
| 39 | Maude | 1,359 |
| 40 | Julia | 1,275 |
| 41 | Jennie | 1,259 |
| 42 | Mattie | 1,256 |
| 43 | Jessie | 1,250 |
| 44 | Catherine | 1,232 |
| 45 | Elsie | 1,220 |
| 46 | Ruth | 1,195 |
| 47 | Lena | 1,137 |
| 48 | Lula | 1,121 |
| 49 | Josephine | 1,118 |
| 50 | Agnes | 1,095 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 8,502 |
| 2 | William | 7,494 |
| 3 | James | 5,097 |
| 4 | George | 4,458 |
| 5 | Charles | 4,061 |
| 6 | Frank | 3,078 |
| 7 | Joseph | 2,670 |
| 8 | Robert | 2,541 |
| 9 | Henry | 2,349 |
| 10 | Harry | 2,345 |
| 11 | Edward | 2,282 |
| 12 | Thomas | 2,200 |
| 13 | Walter | 1,905 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,610 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,506 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,417 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,018 |
| 18 | Roy | 941 |
| 19 | Louis | 860 |
| 20 | Samuel | 815 |
| 21 | Charlie | 797 |
| 22 | Ernest | 774 |
| 23 | Willie | 758 |
| 24 | Earl | 744 |
| 25 | Richard | 743 |
| 26 | David | 731 |
| 27 | Carl | 693 |
| 28 | Joe | 682 |
| 29 | Oscar | 628 |
| 30 | Will | 613 |
| 31 | Paul | 607 |
| 32 | Ralph | 587 |
| 33 | Jesse | 576 |
| 34 | Andrew | 575 |
| 35 | Alfred | 549 |
| 36 | Raymond | 546 |
| 37 | Benjamin | 537 |
| 38 | Elmer | 528 |
| 39 | Daniel | 505 |
| 40 | Howard | 501 |
| 41 | Sam | 489 |
| 42 | Herbert | 467 |
| 43 | Frederick | 410 |
| 44 | Lee | 410 |
| 45 | Peter | 410 |
| 46 | Eugene | 408 |
| 47 | Harold | 408 |
| 48 | Michael | 394 |
| 49 | Leo | 393 |
| 50 | Herman | 382 |