Top Names of 1894
The most popular names recorded in 1894 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 13,151 |
| 2 | Anna | 5,565 |
| 3 | Margaret | 3,700 |
| 4 | Helen | 3,676 |
| 5 | Elizabeth | 3,425 |
| 6 | Ruth | 3,372 |
| 7 | Ethel | 3,287 |
| 8 | Florence | 3,233 |
| 9 | Emma | 2,937 |
| 10 | Marie | 2,649 |
| 11 | Clara | 2,603 |
| 12 | Minnie | 2,592 |
| 13 | Bessie | 2,520 |
| 14 | Bertha | 2,496 |
| 15 | Edna | 2,458 |
| 16 | Lillian | 2,441 |
| 17 | Alice | 2,414 |
| 18 | Annie | 2,393 |
| 19 | Grace | 2,361 |
| 20 | Mabel | 2,221 |
| 21 | Ida | 2,195 |
| 22 | Rose | 2,126 |
| 23 | Hazel | 2,103 |
| 24 | Martha | 1,968 |
| 25 | Gertrude | 1,908 |
| 26 | Edith | 1,820 |
| 27 | Myrtle | 1,818 |
| 28 | Pearl | 1,789 |
| 29 | Frances | 1,776 |
| 30 | Nellie | 1,767 |
| 31 | Ella | 1,761 |
| 32 | Laura | 1,730 |
| 33 | Elsie | 1,716 |
| 34 | Sarah | 1,701 |
| 35 | Eva | 1,673 |
| 36 | Esther | 1,654 |
| 37 | Louise | 1,571 |
| 38 | Agnes | 1,470 |
| 39 | Carrie | 1,452 |
| 40 | Lillie | 1,432 |
| 41 | Catherine | 1,430 |
| 42 | Lena | 1,360 |
| 43 | Irene | 1,347 |
| 44 | Hattie | 1,325 |
| 45 | Julia | 1,320 |
| 46 | Cora | 1,319 |
| 47 | Gladys | 1,258 |
| 48 | Josephine | 1,256 |
| 49 | Mattie | 1,238 |
| 50 | Mildred | 1,220 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 8,237 |
| 2 | William | 7,274 |
| 3 | James | 5,110 |
| 4 | George | 4,365 |
| 5 | Charles | 3,788 |
| 6 | Joseph | 2,977 |
| 7 | Frank | 2,863 |
| 8 | Robert | 2,497 |
| 9 | Henry | 2,278 |
| 10 | Harry | 2,189 |
| 11 | Edward | 2,179 |
| 12 | Thomas | 2,170 |
| 13 | Walter | 2,010 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,712 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,475 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,447 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,185 |
| 18 | Roy | 1,018 |
| 19 | Willie | 986 |
| 20 | Earl | 896 |
| 21 | Louis | 869 |
| 22 | Carl | 861 |
| 23 | Paul | 824 |
| 24 | Ernest | 821 |
| 25 | Richard | 808 |
| 26 | Samuel | 776 |
| 27 | Raymond | 767 |
| 28 | Joe | 741 |
| 29 | David | 729 |
| 30 | Charlie | 704 |
| 31 | Ralph | 692 |
| 32 | Harold | 690 |
| 33 | Howard | 612 |
| 34 | Oscar | 601 |
| 35 | Andrew | 594 |
| 36 | Herbert | 585 |
| 37 | Elmer | 575 |
| 38 | Jesse | 567 |
| 39 | Will | 559 |
| 40 | Alfred | 521 |
| 41 | Daniel | 515 |
| 42 | Leo | 515 |
| 43 | Sam | 507 |
| 44 | Benjamin | 469 |
| 45 | Lee | 455 |
| 46 | Floyd | 445 |
| 47 | Jack | 441 |
| 48 | Herman | 433 |
| 49 | Lawrence | 430 |
| 50 | Francis | 423 |