Top Names of 1905
The most popular names recorded in 1905 were Mary for girls
and John for boys. Full top-50 lists below, from official SSA data.
Girls
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Mary | 16,067 |
| 2 | Helen | 6,811 |
| 3 | Margaret | 5,690 |
| 4 | Anna | 5,424 |
| 5 | Ruth | 5,068 |
| 6 | Elizabeth | 4,121 |
| 7 | Dorothy | 3,937 |
| 8 | Mildred | 3,758 |
| 9 | Marie | 3,643 |
| 10 | Alice | 3,610 |
| 11 | Florence | 3,478 |
| 12 | Ethel | 3,401 |
| 13 | Lillian | 3,185 |
| 14 | Gladys | 2,996 |
| 15 | Edna | 2,953 |
| 16 | Frances | 2,887 |
| 17 | Annie | 2,793 |
| 18 | Rose | 2,724 |
| 19 | Grace | 2,630 |
| 20 | Bessie | 2,446 |
| 21 | Bertha | 2,434 |
| 22 | Clara | 2,397 |
| 23 | Louise | 2,367 |
| 24 | Irene | 2,357 |
| 25 | Hazel | 2,351 |
| 26 | Emma | 2,298 |
| 27 | Gertrude | 2,276 |
| 28 | Catherine | 2,198 |
| 29 | Mabel | 2,178 |
| 30 | Edith | 2,137 |
| 31 | Pearl | 2,108 |
| 32 | Martha | 2,091 |
| 33 | Myrtle | 2,026 |
| 34 | Esther | 1,993 |
| 35 | Minnie | 1,950 |
| 36 | Thelma | 1,945 |
| 37 | Josephine | 1,894 |
| 38 | Ruby | 1,885 |
| 39 | Eva | 1,815 |
| 40 | Elsie | 1,811 |
| 41 | Sarah | 1,762 |
| 42 | Ida | 1,757 |
| 43 | Agnes | 1,718 |
| 44 | Viola | 1,697 |
| 45 | Beatrice | 1,661 |
| 46 | Evelyn | 1,661 |
| 47 | Julia | 1,642 |
| 48 | Nellie | 1,626 |
| 49 | Laura | 1,566 |
| 50 | Lucille | 1,533 |
Boys
| # | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | John | 8,059 |
| 2 | William | 6,495 |
| 3 | James | 6,042 |
| 4 | George | 4,256 |
| 5 | Charles | 3,608 |
| 6 | Robert | 3,410 |
| 7 | Joseph | 3,302 |
| 8 | Frank | 2,837 |
| 9 | Edward | 2,366 |
| 10 | Thomas | 2,135 |
| 11 | Henry | 2,126 |
| 12 | Walter | 1,902 |
| 13 | Willie | 1,782 |
| 14 | Harry | 1,619 |
| 15 | Albert | 1,532 |
| 16 | Arthur | 1,505 |
| 17 | Clarence | 1,377 |
| 18 | Fred | 1,284 |
| 19 | Paul | 1,262 |
| 20 | Harold | 1,258 |
| 21 | Raymond | 1,159 |
| 22 | Richard | 1,033 |
| 23 | Joe | 1,024 |
| 24 | Roy | 1,016 |
| 25 | Louis | 981 |
| 26 | Carl | 959 |
| 27 | Ralph | 938 |
| 28 | Jack | 907 |
| 29 | Earl | 904 |
| 30 | Samuel | 856 |
| 31 | Ernest | 845 |
| 32 | David | 838 |
| 33 | Theodore | 834 |
| 34 | Charlie | 801 |
| 35 | Howard | 735 |
| 36 | Francis | 685 |
| 37 | Herbert | 681 |
| 38 | Lawrence | 669 |
| 39 | Sam | 620 |
| 40 | Andrew | 619 |
| 41 | Elmer | 602 |
| 42 | Eugene | 593 |
| 43 | Alfred | 591 |
| 44 | Floyd | 523 |
| 45 | Michael | 513 |
| 46 | Leo | 512 |
| 47 | Leonard | 495 |
| 48 | Anthony | 490 |
| 49 | Lee | 486 |
| 50 | Daniel | 484 |