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Top Baby Names 1898

Updated: 2025-09-26 · Total Girls: 258,770 · Total Boys: 122,685

Girl Baby Names — Top 100

#	Name	Count	%
1	Mary	14,406	5.567%
2	Anna	5,773	2.231%
3	Helen	5,230	2.021%
4	Margaret	4,696	1.815%
5	Ruth	4,249	1.642%
6	Florence	3,790	1.465%
7	Elizabeth	3,659	1.414%
8	Ethel	3,531	1.365%
9	Marie	3,435	1.327%
10	Lillian	3,061	1.183%

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#	Name	Count	%
11	Alice	2,846	1.100%
12	Edna	2,813	1.087%
13	Emma	2,788	1.077%
14	Clara	2,731	1.055%
15	Grace	2,726	1.053%
16	Bessie	2,647	1.023%
17	Bertha	2,642	1.021%
18	Annie	2,470	0.955%
19	Hazel	2,439	0.943%
20	Rose	2,436	0.941%

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#	Name	Count	%
21	Minnie	2,409	0.931%
22	Frances	2,379	0.919%
23	Mabel	2,331	0.901%
24	Gertrude	2,302	0.890%
25	Martha	2,184	0.844%
26	Pearl	2,158	0.834%
27	Gladys	2,136	0.825%
28	Mildred	2,101	0.812%
29	Ida	2,090	0.808%
30	Myrtle	2,090	0.808%

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#	Name	Count	%
31	Esther	2,047	0.791%
32	Edith	1,981	0.766%
33	Elsie	1,919	0.742%
34	Irene	1,902	0.735%
35	Eva	1,823	0.704%
36	Nellie	1,810	0.699%
37	Sarah	1,800	0.696%
38	Laura	1,768	0.683%
39	Ella	1,715	0.663%
40	Agnes	1,708	0.660%

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#	Name	Count	%
41	Catherine	1,705	0.659%
42	Louise	1,693	0.654%
43	Dorothy	1,671	0.646%
44	Lillie	1,522	0.588%
45	Julia	1,462	0.565%
46	Josephine	1,425	0.551%
47	Carrie	1,371	0.530%
48	Hattie	1,328	0.513%
49	Lena	1,320	0.510%
50	Mattie	1,314	0.508%

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#	Name	Count	%
51	Cora	1,304	0.504%
52	Alma	1,299	0.502%
53	Viola	1,272	0.492%
54	Blanche	1,269	0.490%
55	Jessie	1,244	0.481%
56	Mae	1,239	0.479%
57	Jennie	1,194	0.461%
58	Ruby	1,191	0.460%
59	Lucy	1,144	0.442%
60	Beatrice	1,122	0.434%

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#	Name	Count	%
61	Fannie	1,085	0.419%
62	Marion	1,085	0.419%
63	Mamie	1,084	0.419%
64	Lula	1,069	0.413%
65	Stella	1,062	0.410%
66	Ada	1,022	0.395%
67	Maude	1,009	0.390%
68	Dora	929	0.359%
69	Katherine	914	0.353%
70	Pauline	900	0.348%

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#	Name	Count	%
71	Willie	878	0.339%
72	Maggie	876	0.339%
73	Vera	876	0.339%
74	Nora	868	0.335%
75	Rosa	841	0.325%
76	Evelyn	836	0.323%
77	Sadie	808	0.312%
78	Virginia	801	0.310%
79	Marguerite	800	0.309%
80	Lucille	795	0.307%

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#	Name	Count	%
81	Ellen	786	0.304%
82	Beulah	783	0.303%
83	Effie	714	0.276%
84	Daisy	712	0.275%
85	Susie	702	0.271%
86	May	696	0.269%
87	Nettie	678	0.262%
88	Lydia	677	0.262%
89	Kathryn	671	0.259%
90	Leona	665	0.257%

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#	Name	Count	%
91	Della	656	0.254%
92	Georgia	654	0.253%
93	Olive	644	0.249%
94	Emily	628	0.243%
95	Eleanor	620	0.240%
96	Bernice	619	0.239%
97	Hilda	610	0.236%
98	Flora	607	0.235%
99	Thelma	605	0.234%
100	Sallie	598	0.231%

#	Name	Count	%
1	John	8,159	6.650%
2	William	7,400	6.032%
3	James	5,321	4.337%
4	George	4,853	3.956%
5	Charles	3,557	2.899%
6	Joseph	3,171	2.585%
7	Robert	2,932	2.390%
8	Frank	2,925	2.384%
9	Edward	2,337	1.905%
10	Thomas	2,161	1.761%

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#	Name	Count	%
11	Henry	2,145	1.748%
12	Harry	2,129	1.735%
13	Walter	2,002	1.632%
14	Arthur	1,619	1.320%
15	Fred	1,447	1.179%
16	Albert	1,417	1.155%
17	Clarence	1,326	1.081%
18	Willie	1,134	0.924%
19	Dewey	1,115	0.909%
20	Roy	1,049	0.855%

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#	Name	Count	%
21	Paul	991	0.808%
22	Harold	963	0.785%
23	Raymond	929	0.757%
24	Carl	919	0.749%
25	Earl	883	0.720%
26	Richard	871	0.710%
27	Louis	861	0.702%
28	Ernest	839	0.684%
29	Joe	827	0.674%
30	David	815	0.664%

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#	Name	Count	%
31	Ralph	803	0.655%
32	Samuel	749	0.611%
33	Charlie	728	0.593%
34	Herbert	716	0.584%
35	Howard	706	0.575%
36	Alfred	645	0.526%
37	Jack	633	0.516%
38	Andrew	611	0.498%
39	Leo	588	0.479%
40	Elmer	583	0.475%

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#	Name	Count	%
41	Oscar	546	0.445%
42	Sam	543	0.443%
43	Francis	541	0.441%
44	Lawrence	533	0.434%
45	Daniel	523	0.426%
46	Lee	498	0.406%
47	Jesse	476	0.388%
48	Will	475	0.387%
49	Eugene	473	0.386%
50	Herman	467	0.381%

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#	Name	Count	%
51	Floyd	434	0.354%
52	Michael	434	0.354%
53	Leonard	421	0.343%
54	Peter	409	0.333%
55	Benjamin	405	0.330%
56	Ray	394	0.321%
57	Edwin	391	0.319%
58	Clyde	383	0.312%
59	Claude	371	0.302%
60	Frederick	368	0.300%

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#	Name	Count	%
61	Russell	359	0.293%
62	Lewis	352	0.287%
63	Martin	339	0.276%
64	Tom	337	0.275%
65	Anthony	325	0.265%
66	Chester	321	0.262%
67	Clifford	317	0.258%
68	Leroy	315	0.257%
69	Ben	310	0.253%
70	Lester	298	0.243%

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#	Name	Count	%
71	Stanley	295	0.240%
72	Edgar	285	0.232%
73	Bernard	284	0.231%
74	Harvey	284	0.231%
75	Theodore	281	0.229%
76	Luther	275	0.224%
77	Jim	269	0.219%
78	Jessie	267	0.218%
79	Lloyd	265	0.216%
80	Otto	259	0.211%

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#	Name	Count	%
81	Eddie	256	0.209%
82	Jacob	256	0.209%
83	Leon	251	0.205%
84	Hugh	250	0.204%
85	Homer	246	0.201%
86	Philip	244	0.199%
87	Cecil	243	0.198%
88	Donald	238	0.194%
89	Ed	228	0.186%
90	Leslie	228	0.186%

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#	Name	Count	%
91	Milton	225	0.183%
92	Archie	222	0.181%
93	Patrick	219	0.179%
94	Guy	215	0.175%
95	Everett	212	0.173%
96	Norman	207	0.169%
97	Victor	205	0.167%
98	Ira	195	0.159%
99	Stephen	195	0.159%
100	Kenneth	191	0.156%

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