Top Names of 1898
The most popular names recorded in 1898 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 14,406 |
| 2 | Anna | 5,773 |
| 3 | Helen | 5,230 |
| 4 | Margaret | 4,696 |
| 5 | Ruth | 4,249 |
| 6 | Florence | 3,790 |
| 7 | Elizabeth | 3,659 |
| 8 | Ethel | 3,531 |
| 9 | Marie | 3,435 |
| 10 | Lillian | 3,061 |
| 11 | Alice | 2,846 |
| 12 | Edna | 2,813 |
| 13 | Emma | 2,788 |
| 14 | Clara | 2,731 |
| 15 | Grace | 2,726 |
| 16 | Bessie | 2,647 |
| 17 | Bertha | 2,642 |
| 18 | Annie | 2,470 |
| 19 | Hazel | 2,439 |
| 20 | Rose | 2,436 |
| 21 | Minnie | 2,409 |
| 22 | Frances | 2,379 |
| 23 | Mabel | 2,331 |
| 24 | Gertrude | 2,302 |
| 25 | Martha | 2,184 |
| 26 | Pearl | 2,158 |
| 27 | Gladys | 2,136 |
| 28 | Mildred | 2,101 |
| 29 | Ida | 2,090 |
| 30 | Myrtle | 2,090 |
| 31 | Esther | 2,047 |
| 32 | Edith | 1,981 |
| 33 | Elsie | 1,919 |
| 34 | Irene | 1,902 |
| 35 | Eva | 1,823 |
| 36 | Nellie | 1,810 |
| 37 | Sarah | 1,800 |
| 38 | Laura | 1,768 |
| 39 | Ella | 1,715 |
| 40 | Agnes | 1,708 |
| 41 | Catherine | 1,705 |
| 42 | Louise | 1,693 |
| 43 | Dorothy | 1,671 |
| 44 | Lillie | 1,522 |
| 45 | Julia | 1,462 |
| 46 | Josephine | 1,425 |
| 47 | Carrie | 1,371 |
| 48 | Hattie | 1,328 |
| 49 | Lena | 1,320 |
| 50 | Mattie | 1,314 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 8,159 |
| 2 | William | 7,400 |
| 3 | James | 5,321 |
| 4 | George | 4,853 |
| 5 | Charles | 3,557 |
| 6 | Joseph | 3,171 |
| 7 | Robert | 2,932 |
| 8 | Frank | 2,925 |
| 9 | Edward | 2,337 |
| 10 | Thomas | 2,161 |
| 11 | Henry | 2,145 |
| 12 | Harry | 2,129 |
| 13 | Walter | 2,002 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,619 |
| 15 | Fred | 1,447 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,417 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,326 |
| 18 | Willie | 1,134 |
| 19 | Dewey | 1,115 |
| 20 | Roy | 1,049 |
| 21 | Paul | 991 |
| 22 | Harold | 963 |
| 23 | Raymond | 929 |
| 24 | Carl | 919 |
| 25 | Earl | 883 |
| 26 | Richard | 871 |
| 27 | Louis | 861 |
| 28 | Ernest | 839 |
| 29 | Joe | 827 |
| 30 | David | 815 |
| 31 | Ralph | 803 |
| 32 | Samuel | 749 |
| 33 | Charlie | 728 |
| 34 | Herbert | 716 |
| 35 | Howard | 706 |
| 36 | Alfred | 645 |
| 37 | Jack | 633 |
| 38 | Andrew | 611 |
| 39 | Leo | 588 |
| 40 | Elmer | 583 |
| 41 | Oscar | 546 |
| 42 | Sam | 543 |
| 43 | Francis | 541 |
| 44 | Lawrence | 533 |
| 45 | Daniel | 523 |
| 46 | Lee | 498 |
| 47 | Jesse | 476 |
| 48 | Will | 475 |
| 49 | Eugene | 473 |
| 50 | Herman | 467 |