Top Names of 1892
The most popular names recorded in 1892 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 13,172 |
| 2 | Anna | 5,542 |
| 3 | Elizabeth | 3,461 |
| 4 | Margaret | 3,435 |
| 5 | Ruth | 3,290 |
| 6 | Florence | 3,154 |
| 7 | Emma | 3,128 |
| 8 | Ethel | 3,035 |
| 9 | Helen | 2,936 |
| 10 | Clara | 2,661 |
| 11 | Bertha | 2,617 |
| 12 | Minnie | 2,609 |
| 13 | Bessie | 2,541 |
| 14 | Alice | 2,373 |
| 15 | Annie | 2,348 |
| 16 | Grace | 2,299 |
| 17 | Ida | 2,259 |
| 18 | Edna | 2,218 |
| 19 | Mabel | 2,170 |
| 20 | Lillian | 2,154 |
| 21 | Marie | 2,066 |
| 22 | Rose | 2,023 |
| 23 | Gertrude | 1,924 |
| 24 | Martha | 1,915 |
| 25 | Hazel | 1,897 |
| 26 | Pearl | 1,831 |
| 27 | Ella | 1,808 |
| 28 | Sarah | 1,798 |
| 29 | Laura | 1,744 |
| 30 | Nellie | 1,738 |
| 31 | Frances | 1,670 |
| 32 | Myrtle | 1,666 |
| 33 | Edith | 1,625 |
| 34 | Eva | 1,611 |
| 35 | Carrie | 1,588 |
| 36 | Lillie | 1,503 |
| 37 | Elsie | 1,489 |
| 38 | Louise | 1,446 |
| 39 | Cora | 1,419 |
| 40 | Hattie | 1,363 |
| 41 | Julia | 1,360 |
| 42 | Catherine | 1,333 |
| 43 | Agnes | 1,328 |
| 44 | Mattie | 1,303 |
| 45 | Maude | 1,270 |
| 46 | Jessie | 1,246 |
| 47 | Lena | 1,234 |
| 48 | Jennie | 1,212 |
| 49 | Josephine | 1,210 |
| 50 | Ada | 1,134 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 9,039 |
| 2 | William | 7,782 |
| 3 | James | 5,398 |
| 4 | George | 4,760 |
| 5 | Charles | 4,319 |
| 6 | Frank | 3,150 |
| 7 | Joseph | 3,064 |
| 8 | Robert | 2,710 |
| 9 | Harry | 2,460 |
| 10 | Henry | 2,452 |
| 11 | Edward | 2,416 |
| 12 | Thomas | 2,413 |
| 13 | Walter | 2,229 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,768 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,628 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,500 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,276 |
| 18 | Roy | 1,048 |
| 19 | Willie | 948 |
| 20 | Samuel | 902 |
| 21 | Earl | 888 |
| 22 | Louis | 865 |
| 23 | Joe | 819 |
| 24 | David | 813 |
| 25 | Carl | 808 |
| 26 | Ernest | 805 |
| 27 | Richard | 802 |
| 28 | Charlie | 761 |
| 29 | Paul | 747 |
| 30 | Ralph | 725 |
| 31 | Raymond | 681 |
| 32 | Andrew | 637 |
| 33 | Oscar | 634 |
| 34 | Will | 607 |
| 35 | Jesse | 602 |
| 36 | Elmer | 592 |
| 37 | Harold | 583 |
| 38 | Sam | 551 |
| 39 | Howard | 548 |
| 40 | Alfred | 542 |
| 41 | Daniel | 533 |
| 42 | Benjamin | 525 |
| 43 | Herbert | 513 |
| 44 | Lawrence | 468 |
| 45 | Peter | 465 |
| 46 | Lee | 460 |
| 47 | Grover | 454 |
| 48 | Frederick | 453 |
| 49 | Leo | 444 |
| 50 | Francis | 429 |