Top Names of 1897
The most popular names recorded in 1897 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 13,413 |
| 2 | Anna | 5,429 |
| 3 | Helen | 4,519 |
| 4 | Margaret | 4,146 |
| 5 | Ruth | 3,878 |
| 6 | Elizabeth | 3,442 |
| 7 | Florence | 3,369 |
| 8 | Ethel | 3,182 |
| 9 | Marie | 3,078 |
| 10 | Emma | 2,698 |
| 11 | Lillian | 2,683 |
| 12 | Edna | 2,567 |
| 13 | Bertha | 2,502 |
| 14 | Grace | 2,458 |
| 15 | Clara | 2,454 |
| 16 | Alice | 2,431 |
| 17 | Bessie | 2,407 |
| 18 | Hazel | 2,339 |
| 19 | Rose | 2,316 |
| 20 | Annie | 2,307 |
| 21 | Minnie | 2,284 |
| 22 | Mabel | 2,222 |
| 23 | Gertrude | 2,135 |
| 24 | Ida | 2,108 |
| 25 | Pearl | 2,076 |
| 26 | Martha | 1,990 |
| 27 | Frances | 1,975 |
| 28 | Esther | 1,911 |
| 29 | Myrtle | 1,833 |
| 30 | Edith | 1,823 |
| 31 | Elsie | 1,763 |
| 32 | Gladys | 1,737 |
| 33 | Mildred | 1,723 |
| 34 | Sarah | 1,713 |
| 35 | Eva | 1,709 |
| 36 | Ella | 1,708 |
| 37 | Nellie | 1,693 |
| 38 | Irene | 1,587 |
| 39 | Laura | 1,585 |
| 40 | Agnes | 1,579 |
| 41 | Louise | 1,563 |
| 42 | Catherine | 1,511 |
| 43 | Dorothy | 1,472 |
| 44 | Lillie | 1,401 |
| 45 | Julia | 1,380 |
| 46 | Carrie | 1,365 |
| 47 | Josephine | 1,267 |
| 48 | Hattie | 1,251 |
| 49 | Cora | 1,246 |
| 50 | Lena | 1,239 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 7,550 |
| 2 | William | 7,198 |
| 3 | James | 5,113 |
| 4 | George | 4,078 |
| 5 | Charles | 3,341 |
| 6 | Joseph | 2,827 |
| 7 | Frank | 2,726 |
| 8 | Robert | 2,701 |
| 9 | Edward | 2,121 |
| 10 | Henry | 1,994 |
| 11 | Thomas | 1,980 |
| 12 | Walter | 1,895 |
| 13 | Harry | 1,879 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,647 |
| 15 | Albert | 1,377 |
| 16 | Fred | 1,301 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,201 |
| 18 | Willie | 1,151 |
| 19 | Roy | 999 |
| 20 | Paul | 923 |
| 21 | Harold | 860 |
| 22 | Raymond | 837 |
| 23 | Louis | 831 |
| 24 | Earl | 829 |
| 25 | Carl | 828 |
| 26 | Joe | 798 |
| 27 | Ernest | 785 |
| 28 | Samuel | 759 |
| 29 | David | 730 |
| 30 | Charlie | 714 |
| 31 | Richard | 702 |
| 32 | Ralph | 697 |
| 33 | Howard | 634 |
| 34 | Elmer | 587 |
| 35 | Herbert | 565 |
| 36 | Andrew | 555 |
| 37 | Oscar | 543 |
| 38 | Jesse | 529 |
| 39 | Daniel | 520 |
| 40 | Alfred | 513 |
| 41 | Lawrence | 505 |
| 42 | Jack | 497 |
| 43 | Francis | 496 |
| 44 | Will | 491 |
| 45 | Sam | 478 |
| 46 | Leo | 462 |
| 47 | Lee | 453 |
| 48 | Floyd | 451 |
| 49 | Eugene | 447 |
| 50 | Herman | 412 |