Top Names of 1901
The most popular names recorded in 1901 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 13,136 |
| 2 | Helen | 5,247 |
| 3 | Anna | 4,923 |
| 4 | Margaret | 4,424 |
| 5 | Ruth | 3,974 |
| 6 | Elizabeth | 3,216 |
| 7 | Marie | 3,157 |
| 8 | Florence | 3,131 |
| 9 | Ethel | 3,067 |
| 10 | Lillian | 2,681 |
| 11 | Gladys | 2,676 |
| 12 | Alice | 2,562 |
| 13 | Edna | 2,488 |
| 14 | Mildred | 2,424 |
| 15 | Grace | 2,398 |
| 16 | Annie | 2,396 |
| 17 | Emma | 2,374 |
| 18 | Clara | 2,319 |
| 19 | Bertha | 2,257 |
| 20 | Rose | 2,212 |
| 21 | Bessie | 2,183 |
| 22 | Dorothy | 2,173 |
| 23 | Hazel | 2,097 |
| 24 | Mabel | 2,097 |
| 25 | Frances | 2,071 |
| 26 | Minnie | 2,026 |
| 27 | Gertrude | 1,964 |
| 28 | Myrtle | 1,892 |
| 29 | Martha | 1,886 |
| 30 | Irene | 1,879 |
| 31 | Pearl | 1,866 |
| 32 | Edith | 1,863 |
| 33 | Esther | 1,844 |
| 34 | Ida | 1,835 |
| 35 | Elsie | 1,747 |
| 36 | Louise | 1,640 |
| 37 | Eva | 1,617 |
| 38 | Catherine | 1,599 |
| 39 | Agnes | 1,525 |
| 40 | Sarah | 1,514 |
| 41 | Nellie | 1,454 |
| 42 | Ella | 1,435 |
| 43 | Josephine | 1,434 |
| 44 | Laura | 1,402 |
| 45 | Lillie | 1,382 |
| 46 | Julia | 1,362 |
| 47 | Viola | 1,331 |
| 48 | Carrie | 1,247 |
| 49 | Ruby | 1,225 |
| 50 | Mattie | 1,224 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 6,900 |
| 2 | William | 5,990 |
| 3 | James | 4,735 |
| 4 | George | 3,609 |
| 5 | Charles | 3,049 |
| 6 | Joseph | 2,766 |
| 7 | Robert | 2,543 |
| 8 | Frank | 2,402 |
| 9 | Edward | 1,917 |
| 10 | Henry | 1,870 |
| 11 | Thomas | 1,820 |
| 12 | Walter | 1,718 |
| 13 | Harry | 1,594 |
| 14 | Arthur | 1,329 |
| 15 | Albert | 1,317 |
| 16 | Willie | 1,294 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,196 |
| 18 | Fred | 1,133 |
| 19 | Paul | 924 |
| 20 | Roy | 917 |
| 21 | Harold | 915 |
| 22 | Raymond | 888 |
| 23 | Earl | 818 |
| 24 | Carl | 817 |
| 25 | Louis | 797 |
| 26 | Richard | 784 |
| 27 | Joe | 756 |
| 28 | Ernest | 691 |
| 29 | Ralph | 682 |
| 30 | David | 672 |
| 31 | Charlie | 654 |
| 32 | Jack | 645 |
| 33 | Samuel | 628 |
| 34 | Howard | 584 |
| 35 | Herbert | 573 |
| 36 | Francis | 543 |
| 37 | Lawrence | 535 |
| 38 | Elmer | 520 |
| 39 | Alfred | 506 |
| 40 | Andrew | 479 |
| 41 | Sam | 479 |
| 42 | Leo | 456 |
| 43 | Theodore | 450 |
| 44 | Eugene | 445 |
| 45 | Lee | 424 |
| 46 | Floyd | 423 |
| 47 | Oscar | 422 |
| 48 | Daniel | 416 |
| 49 | Jesse | 411 |
| 50 | Russell | 395 |