Top Names of 1891
The most popular names recorded in 1891 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 11,704 |
| 2 | Anna | 5,099 |
| 3 | Margaret | 3,065 |
| 4 | Elizabeth | 3,059 |
| 5 | Emma | 2,884 |
| 6 | Florence | 2,716 |
| 7 | Ethel | 2,689 |
| 8 | Minnie | 2,428 |
| 9 | Helen | 2,417 |
| 10 | Bertha | 2,372 |
| 11 | Clara | 2,360 |
| 12 | Bessie | 2,323 |
| 13 | Annie | 2,096 |
| 14 | Grace | 2,088 |
| 15 | Mabel | 2,029 |
| 16 | Alice | 2,015 |
| 17 | Ida | 2,002 |
| 18 | Edna | 1,963 |
| 19 | Ruth | 1,857 |
| 20 | Lillian | 1,812 |
| 21 | Martha | 1,744 |
| 22 | Rose | 1,696 |
| 23 | Ella | 1,685 |
| 24 | Sarah | 1,669 |
| 25 | Nellie | 1,647 |
| 26 | Gertrude | 1,645 |
| 27 | Pearl | 1,605 |
| 28 | Marie | 1,596 |
| 29 | Edith | 1,509 |
| 30 | Laura | 1,509 |
| 31 | Myrtle | 1,458 |
| 32 | Hazel | 1,447 |
| 33 | Eva | 1,412 |
| 34 | Frances | 1,397 |
| 35 | Cora | 1,343 |
| 36 | Carrie | 1,342 |
| 37 | Louise | 1,333 |
| 38 | Elsie | 1,303 |
| 39 | Lillie | 1,247 |
| 40 | Jennie | 1,238 |
| 41 | Catherine | 1,219 |
| 42 | Hattie | 1,219 |
| 43 | Julia | 1,200 |
| 44 | Maude | 1,188 |
| 45 | Lena | 1,174 |
| 46 | Mattie | 1,165 |
| 47 | Agnes | 1,125 |
| 48 | Jessie | 1,119 |
| 49 | Josephine | 1,031 |
| 50 | Lula | 1,010 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 7,680 |
| 2 | William | 6,763 |
| 3 | James | 4,516 |
| 4 | George | 3,931 |
| 5 | Charles | 3,640 |
| 6 | Frank | 2,652 |
| 7 | Joseph | 2,572 |
| 8 | Robert | 2,240 |
| 9 | Harry | 2,132 |
| 10 | Henry | 2,049 |
| 11 | Edward | 1,989 |
| 12 | Thomas | 1,982 |
| 13 | Walter | 1,668 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,514 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,362 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,207 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,007 |
| 18 | Roy | 838 |
| 19 | Louis | 786 |
| 20 | Samuel | 753 |
| 21 | Willie | 739 |
| 22 | Ernest | 715 |
| 23 | Charlie | 707 |
| 24 | Carl | 675 |
| 25 | Earl | 674 |
| 26 | David | 673 |
| 27 | Richard | 609 |
| 28 | Ralph | 587 |
| 29 | Joe | 584 |
| 30 | Raymond | 575 |
| 31 | Paul | 564 |
| 32 | Oscar | 551 |
| 33 | Andrew | 521 |
| 34 | Will | 520 |
| 35 | Jesse | 519 |
| 36 | Elmer | 508 |
| 37 | Daniel | 505 |
| 38 | Herbert | 501 |
| 39 | Alfred | 499 |
| 40 | Howard | 485 |
| 41 | Benjamin | 461 |
| 42 | Harold | 419 |
| 43 | Sam | 418 |
| 44 | Frederick | 412 |
| 45 | Peter | 396 |
| 46 | Lawrence | 389 |
| 47 | Herman | 383 |
| 48 | Eugene | 362 |
| 49 | Ray | 360 |
| 50 | Lewis | 357 |