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Top Baby Names 1888

Updated: 2025-09-26 · Total Girls: 178,622 · Total Boys: 120,852

Girl Baby Names — Top 100

#	Name	Count	%
1	Mary	11,754	6.580%
2	Anna	4,982	2.789%
3	Elizabeth	3,224	1.805%
4	Emma	3,087	1.728%
5	Margaret	2,904	1.626%
6	Minnie	2,654	1.486%
7	Bertha	2,450	1.372%
8	Florence	2,444	1.368%
9	Ethel	2,374	1.329%
10	Bessie	2,278	1.275%

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#	Name	Count	%
11	Clara	2,230	1.248%
12	Ida	2,229	1.248%
13	Alice	2,202	1.233%
14	Annie	2,188	1.225%
15	Grace	2,090	1.170%
16	Helen	1,847	1.034%
17	Mabel	1,830	1.025%
18	Ella	1,774	0.993%
19	Martha	1,769	0.990%
20	Sarah	1,755	0.983%

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#	Name	Count	%
21	Nellie	1,736	0.972%
22	Edna	1,687	0.944%
23	Lillian	1,656	0.927%
24	Carrie	1,647	0.922%
25	Laura	1,624	0.909%
26	Pearl	1,591	0.891%
27	Rose	1,590	0.890%
28	Gertrude	1,468	0.822%
29	Edith	1,453	0.813%
30	Frances	1,452	0.813%

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#	Name	Count	%
31	Cora	1,433	0.802%
32	Maude	1,396	0.782%
33	Louise	1,334	0.747%
34	Eva	1,329	0.744%
35	Myrtle	1,310	0.733%
36	Hattie	1,298	0.727%
37	Jennie	1,298	0.727%
38	Julia	1,292	0.723%
39	Mattie	1,268	0.710%
40	Marie	1,258	0.704%

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#	Name	Count	%
41	Lillie	1,249	0.699%
42	Catherine	1,212	0.679%
43	Jessie	1,200	0.672%
44	Lula	1,173	0.657%
45	Lena	1,162	0.651%
46	Ada	1,116	0.625%
47	Elsie	1,112	0.623%
48	Agnes	1,046	0.586%
49	Josephine	1,001	0.560%
50	Fannie	991	0.555%

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#	Name	Count	%
51	Lucy	964	0.540%
52	Blanche	942	0.527%
53	Mamie	917	0.513%
54	Dora	898	0.503%
55	Hazel	898	0.503%
56	Katherine	893	0.500%
57	Maggie	882	0.494%
58	Alma	853	0.478%
59	Ruth	850	0.476%
60	Mae	836	0.468%

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#	Name	Count	%
61	Nora	832	0.466%
62	Rosa	832	0.466%
63	May	782	0.438%
64	Stella	775	0.434%
65	Effie	744	0.417%
66	Irene	722	0.404%
67	Nettie	692	0.387%
68	Ellen	691	0.387%
69	Sadie	691	0.387%
70	Sallie	633	0.354%

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#	Name	Count	%
71	Della	621	0.348%
72	Susie	621	0.348%
73	Daisy	612	0.343%
74	Viola	596	0.334%
75	Lizzie	593	0.332%
76	Nancy	582	0.326%
77	Esther	572	0.320%
78	Flora	541	0.303%
79	Willie	522	0.292%
80	Katie	516	0.289%

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#	Name	Count	%
81	Lottie	511	0.286%
82	Etta	500	0.280%
83	Mildred	499	0.279%
84	Georgia	477	0.267%
85	Lydia	472	0.264%
86	Maud	469	0.263%
87	Olive	465	0.260%
88	Charlotte	464	0.260%
89	Caroline	458	0.256%
90	Emily	457	0.256%

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#	Name	Count	%
91	Addie	455	0.255%
92	Jane	446	0.250%
93	Kathryn	446	0.250%
94	Ruby	445	0.249%
95	Beulah	426	0.238%
96	Ollie	411	0.230%
97	Amanda	404	0.226%
98	Pauline	393	0.220%
99	Harriet	389	0.218%
100	Virginia	385	0.216%

#	Name	Count	%
1	John	9,247	7.652%
2	William	8,705	7.203%
3	James	5,562	4.602%
4	George	4,912	4.064%
5	Charles	4,591	3.799%
6	Frank	3,459	2.862%
7	Joseph	2,993	2.477%
8	Robert	2,814	2.328%
9	Harry	2,759	2.283%
10	Henry	2,596	2.148%

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#	Name	Count	%
11	Edward	2,470	2.044%
12	Thomas	2,449	2.026%
13	Walter	2,040	1.688%
14	Arthur	1,710	1.415%
15	Fred	1,665	1.378%
16	Albert	1,569	1.298%
17	Clarence	1,022	0.846%
18	Samuel	931	0.770%
19	Louis	884	0.731%
20	Roy	856	0.708%

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#	Name	Count	%
21	David	801	0.663%
22	Charlie	796	0.659%
23	Joe	789	0.653%
24	Willie	786	0.650%
25	Benjamin	781	0.646%
26	Richard	772	0.639%
27	Ernest	766	0.634%
28	Will	707	0.585%
29	Carl	675	0.559%
30	Earl	675	0.559%

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#	Name	Count	%
31	Oscar	647	0.535%
32	Jesse	637	0.527%
33	Andrew	615	0.509%
34	Sam	607	0.502%
35	Daniel	566	0.468%
36	Ralph	547	0.453%
37	Alfred	536	0.444%
38	Paul	529	0.438%
39	Elmer	527	0.436%
40	Howard	513	0.424%

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#	Name	Count	%
41	Peter	498	0.412%
42	Frederick	496	0.410%
43	Herbert	485	0.401%
44	Grover	474	0.392%
45	Raymond	469	0.388%
46	Michael	466	0.386%
47	Ben	463	0.383%
48	Lee	430	0.356%
49	Tom	416	0.344%
50	Lewis	412	0.341%

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#	Name	Count	%
51	Herman	403	0.333%
52	Harrison	400	0.331%
53	Eugene	398	0.329%
54	Martin	378	0.313%
55	Claude	374	0.309%
56	Jim	362	0.300%
57	Francis	353	0.292%
58	Jacob	353	0.292%
59	Leo	353	0.292%
60	Clyde	344	0.285%

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#	Name	Count	%
61	Lawrence	343	0.284%
62	Harvey	334	0.276%
63	Ray	331	0.274%
64	Jack	329	0.272%
65	Edgar	321	0.266%
66	Otto	312	0.258%
67	Floyd	302	0.250%
68	Ed	301	0.249%
69	Edwin	298	0.247%
70	Harold	298	0.247%

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#	Name	Count	%
71	Guy	297	0.246%
72	Chester	288	0.238%
73	Bert	282	0.233%
74	Luther	275	0.228%
75	Allen	260	0.215%
76	Homer	256	0.212%
77	Charley	254	0.210%
78	Jessie	254	0.210%
79	Hugh	253	0.209%
80	Theodore	249	0.206%

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#	Name	Count	%
81	Patrick	245	0.203%
82	Alexander	237	0.196%
83	Leonard	225	0.186%
84	Ira	222	0.184%
85	Isaac	221	0.183%
86	August	213	0.176%
87	Bernard	207	0.171%
88	Oliver	206	0.170%
89	Julius	197	0.163%
90	Leon	196	0.162%

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#	Name	Count	%
91	Philip	196	0.162%
92	Clifford	194	0.161%
93	Anthony	193	0.160%
94	Eddie	193	0.160%
95	Leroy	192	0.159%
96	Archie	191	0.158%
97	Lester	189	0.156%
98	Stephen	187	0.155%
99	Leslie	175	0.145%
100	Lloyd	175	0.145%

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