Top Names of 1902
The most popular names recorded in 1902 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 14,486 |
| 2 | Helen | 5,967 |
| 3 | Anna | 5,288 |
| 4 | Margaret | 5,011 |
| 5 | Ruth | 4,384 |
| 6 | Elizabeth | 3,694 |
| 7 | Florence | 3,509 |
| 8 | Marie | 3,424 |
| 9 | Ethel | 3,295 |
| 10 | Alice | 3,135 |
| 11 | Lillian | 3,063 |
| 12 | Gladys | 2,809 |
| 13 | Edna | 2,754 |
| 14 | Mildred | 2,750 |
| 15 | Dorothy | 2,707 |
| 16 | Annie | 2,664 |
| 17 | Grace | 2,642 |
| 18 | Emma | 2,514 |
| 19 | Bessie | 2,448 |
| 20 | Rose | 2,444 |
| 21 | Clara | 2,432 |
| 22 | Bertha | 2,372 |
| 23 | Frances | 2,326 |
| 24 | Mabel | 2,280 |
| 25 | Hazel | 2,238 |
| 26 | Irene | 2,210 |
| 27 | Gertrude | 2,207 |
| 28 | Pearl | 2,100 |
| 29 | Minnie | 2,055 |
| 30 | Martha | 2,030 |
| 31 | Catherine | 1,896 |
| 32 | Myrtle | 1,884 |
| 33 | Edith | 1,853 |
| 34 | Ida | 1,836 |
| 35 | Esther | 1,833 |
| 36 | Louise | 1,832 |
| 37 | Eva | 1,727 |
| 38 | Elsie | 1,720 |
| 39 | Sarah | 1,710 |
| 40 | Agnes | 1,676 |
| 41 | Nellie | 1,566 |
| 42 | Josephine | 1,565 |
| 43 | Laura | 1,559 |
| 44 | Lillie | 1,533 |
| 45 | Ella | 1,525 |
| 46 | Julia | 1,501 |
| 47 | Ruby | 1,458 |
| 48 | Viola | 1,447 |
| 49 | Beatrice | 1,429 |
| 50 | Carrie | 1,376 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 7,907 |
| 2 | William | 6,617 |
| 3 | James | 5,592 |
| 4 | George | 4,223 |
| 5 | Charles | 3,361 |
| 6 | Robert | 3,180 |
| 7 | Joseph | 3,098 |
| 8 | Frank | 2,756 |
| 9 | Edward | 2,294 |
| 10 | Henry | 2,154 |
| 11 | Thomas | 2,134 |
| 12 | Walter | 1,858 |
| 13 | Harry | 1,750 |
| 14 | Willie | 1,565 |
| 15 | Arthur | 1,487 |
| 16 | Albert | 1,375 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,292 |
| 18 | Fred | 1,286 |
| 19 | Harold | 1,077 |
| 20 | Paul | 1,067 |
| 21 | Raymond | 1,064 |
| 22 | Roy | 1,002 |
| 23 | Joe | 955 |
| 24 | Carl | 952 |
| 25 | Louis | 912 |
| 26 | Richard | 908 |
| 27 | Earl | 877 |
| 28 | Ralph | 866 |
| 29 | Ernest | 790 |
| 30 | Charlie | 761 |
| 31 | David | 761 |
| 32 | Jack | 743 |
| 33 | Samuel | 702 |
| 34 | Theodore | 642 |
| 35 | Howard | 632 |
| 36 | Herbert | 615 |
| 37 | Lawrence | 598 |
| 38 | Francis | 597 |
| 39 | Alfred | 590 |
| 40 | Elmer | 574 |
| 41 | Sam | 559 |
| 42 | Andrew | 558 |
| 43 | Leo | 551 |
| 44 | Eugene | 524 |
| 45 | Daniel | 501 |
| 46 | Lee | 475 |
| 47 | Floyd | 471 |
| 48 | Michael | 460 |
| 49 | Herman | 457 |
| 50 | Jesse | 437 |