Top Names of 1895
The most popular names recorded in 1895 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 13,447 |
| 2 | Anna | 5,950 |
| 3 | Helen | 4,023 |
| 4 | Margaret | 3,931 |
| 5 | Elizabeth | 3,603 |
| 6 | Ruth | 3,551 |
| 7 | Florence | 3,471 |
| 8 | Ethel | 3,391 |
| 9 | Marie | 3,011 |
| 10 | Emma | 2,952 |
| 11 | Bertha | 2,626 |
| 12 | Clara | 2,613 |
| 13 | Minnie | 2,567 |
| 14 | Edna | 2,560 |
| 15 | Bessie | 2,542 |
| 16 | Lillian | 2,495 |
| 17 | Alice | 2,457 |
| 18 | Grace | 2,448 |
| 19 | Annie | 2,390 |
| 20 | Mabel | 2,359 |
| 21 | Rose | 2,262 |
| 22 | Hazel | 2,252 |
| 23 | Ida | 2,170 |
| 24 | Gertrude | 2,129 |
| 25 | Martha | 2,096 |
| 26 | Pearl | 1,958 |
| 27 | Edith | 1,940 |
| 28 | Myrtle | 1,938 |
| 29 | Frances | 1,833 |
| 30 | Nellie | 1,833 |
| 31 | Esther | 1,803 |
| 32 | Elsie | 1,795 |
| 33 | Sarah | 1,777 |
| 34 | Eva | 1,767 |
| 35 | Ella | 1,692 |
| 36 | Laura | 1,643 |
| 37 | Louise | 1,582 |
| 38 | Catherine | 1,514 |
| 39 | Mildred | 1,474 |
| 40 | Agnes | 1,466 |
| 41 | Gladys | 1,464 |
| 42 | Carrie | 1,463 |
| 43 | Irene | 1,428 |
| 44 | Lillie | 1,414 |
| 45 | Julia | 1,380 |
| 46 | Hattie | 1,338 |
| 47 | Josephine | 1,334 |
| 48 | Jessie | 1,300 |
| 49 | Cora | 1,295 |
| 50 | Lena | 1,289 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 8,320 |
| 2 | William | 7,277 |
| 3 | James | 5,335 |
| 4 | George | 4,289 |
| 5 | Charles | 3,633 |
| 6 | Frank | 3,012 |
| 7 | Joseph | 2,992 |
| 8 | Robert | 2,635 |
| 9 | Henry | 2,221 |
| 10 | Edward | 2,203 |
| 11 | Thomas | 2,153 |
| 12 | Harry | 2,128 |
| 13 | Walter | 2,015 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,666 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,483 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,391 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,326 |
| 18 | Willie | 1,071 |
| 19 | Roy | 1,028 |
| 20 | Paul | 933 |
| 21 | Louis | 913 |
| 22 | Carl | 851 |
| 23 | Earl | 851 |
| 24 | Ernest | 834 |
| 25 | Samuel | 814 |
| 26 | Raymond | 806 |
| 27 | Charlie | 767 |
| 28 | Joe | 763 |
| 29 | Harold | 753 |
| 30 | Ralph | 736 |
| 31 | Richard | 727 |
| 32 | David | 707 |
| 33 | Howard | 641 |
| 34 | Elmer | 610 |
| 35 | Jesse | 577 |
| 36 | Herbert | 569 |
| 37 | Andrew | 562 |
| 38 | Alfred | 551 |
| 39 | Oscar | 549 |
| 40 | Daniel | 516 |
| 41 | Lawrence | 509 |
| 42 | Leo | 509 |
| 43 | Sam | 487 |
| 44 | Will | 485 |
| 45 | Francis | 480 |
| 46 | Jack | 479 |
| 47 | Lee | 478 |
| 48 | Benjamin | 452 |
| 49 | Herman | 439 |
| 50 | Eugene | 430 |