Top Names of 1900
The most popular names recorded in 1900 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 16,705 |
| 2 | Helen | 6,342 |
| 3 | Anna | 6,114 |
| 4 | Margaret | 5,304 |
| 5 | Ruth | 4,765 |
| 6 | Elizabeth | 4,096 |
| 7 | Florence | 3,920 |
| 8 | Ethel | 3,896 |
| 9 | Marie | 3,856 |
| 10 | Lillian | 3,414 |
| 11 | Annie | 3,324 |
| 12 | Edna | 3,102 |
| 13 | Emma | 3,095 |
| 14 | Alice | 3,059 |
| 15 | Bessie | 3,044 |
| 16 | Bertha | 3,019 |
| 17 | Grace | 2,942 |
| 18 | Rose | 2,844 |
| 19 | Clara | 2,826 |
| 20 | Mildred | 2,800 |
| 21 | Gladys | 2,733 |
| 22 | Minnie | 2,673 |
| 23 | Gertrude | 2,580 |
| 24 | Pearl | 2,512 |
| 25 | Mabel | 2,509 |
| 26 | Frances | 2,495 |
| 27 | Dorothy | 2,491 |
| 28 | Martha | 2,437 |
| 29 | Hazel | 2,425 |
| 30 | Ida | 2,285 |
| 31 | Irene | 2,264 |
| 32 | Myrtle | 2,252 |
| 33 | Eva | 2,089 |
| 34 | Catherine | 2,081 |
| 35 | Louise | 2,070 |
| 36 | Edith | 2,068 |
| 37 | Sarah | 2,054 |
| 38 | Elsie | 2,045 |
| 39 | Esther | 2,017 |
| 40 | Lillie | 2,004 |
| 41 | Agnes | 1,914 |
| 42 | Ella | 1,911 |
| 43 | Nellie | 1,850 |
| 44 | Mattie | 1,834 |
| 45 | Laura | 1,824 |
| 46 | Julia | 1,766 |
| 47 | Josephine | 1,743 |
| 48 | Carrie | 1,711 |
| 49 | Viola | 1,674 |
| 50 | Hattie | 1,553 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 9,828 |
| 2 | William | 8,579 |
| 3 | James | 7,245 |
| 4 | George | 5,403 |
| 5 | Charles | 4,098 |
| 6 | Robert | 3,821 |
| 7 | Joseph | 3,714 |
| 8 | Frank | 3,477 |
| 9 | Edward | 2,720 |
| 10 | Henry | 2,606 |
| 11 | Thomas | 2,556 |
| 12 | Walter | 2,298 |
| 13 | Harry | 2,272 |
| 14 | Willie | 2,113 |
| 15 | Arthur | 1,853 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,741 |
| 17 | Fred | 1,646 |
| 18 | Clarence | 1,483 |
| 19 | Paul | 1,288 |
| 20 | Harold | 1,245 |
| 21 | Roy | 1,215 |
| 22 | Joe | 1,179 |
| 23 | Raymond | 1,150 |
| 24 | Richard | 1,141 |
| 25 | Charlie | 1,124 |
| 26 | Louis | 1,097 |
| 27 | Jack | 1,053 |
| 28 | Earl | 1,037 |
| 29 | Carl | 1,016 |
| 30 | Ernest | 1,012 |
| 31 | Ralph | 896 |
| 32 | David | 883 |
| 33 | Samuel | 877 |
| 34 | Sam | 821 |
| 35 | Howard | 779 |
| 36 | Herbert | 751 |
| 37 | Andrew | 718 |
| 38 | Elmer | 699 |
| 39 | Lee | 675 |
| 40 | Lawrence | 659 |
| 41 | Francis | 652 |
| 42 | Alfred | 640 |
| 43 | Will | 603 |
| 44 | Daniel | 598 |
| 45 | Eugene | 587 |
| 46 | Leo | 570 |
| 47 | Oscar | 563 |
| 48 | Floyd | 555 |
| 49 | Herman | 550 |
| 50 | Jesse | 536 |