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Top Baby Names 1901

Updated: 2025-09-26 · Total Girls: 239,345 · Total Boys: 106,467

Girl Baby Names — Top 100

#	Name	Count	%
1	Mary	13,136	5.488%
2	Helen	5,247	2.192%
3	Anna	4,923	2.057%
4	Margaret	4,424	1.848%
5	Ruth	3,974	1.660%
6	Elizabeth	3,216	1.344%
7	Marie	3,157	1.319%
8	Florence	3,131	1.308%
9	Ethel	3,067	1.281%
10	Lillian	2,681	1.120%

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#	Name	Count	%
11	Gladys	2,676	1.118%
12	Alice	2,562	1.070%
13	Edna	2,488	1.040%
14	Mildred	2,424	1.013%
15	Grace	2,398	1.002%
16	Annie	2,396	1.001%
17	Emma	2,374	0.992%
18	Clara	2,319	0.969%
19	Bertha	2,257	0.943%
20	Rose	2,212	0.924%

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#	Name	Count	%
21	Bessie	2,183	0.912%
22	Dorothy	2,173	0.908%
23	Hazel	2,097	0.876%
24	Mabel	2,097	0.876%
25	Frances	2,071	0.865%
26	Minnie	2,026	0.846%
27	Gertrude	1,964	0.821%
28	Myrtle	1,892	0.790%
29	Martha	1,886	0.788%
30	Irene	1,879	0.785%

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#	Name	Count	%
31	Pearl	1,866	0.780%
32	Edith	1,863	0.778%
33	Esther	1,844	0.770%
34	Ida	1,835	0.767%
35	Elsie	1,747	0.730%
36	Louise	1,640	0.685%
37	Eva	1,617	0.676%
38	Catherine	1,599	0.668%
39	Agnes	1,525	0.637%
40	Sarah	1,514	0.633%

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#	Name	Count	%
41	Nellie	1,454	0.607%
42	Ella	1,435	0.600%
43	Josephine	1,434	0.599%
44	Laura	1,402	0.586%
45	Lillie	1,382	0.577%
46	Julia	1,362	0.569%
47	Viola	1,331	0.556%
48	Carrie	1,247	0.521%
49	Ruby	1,225	0.512%
50	Mattie	1,224	0.511%

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#	Name	Count	%
51	Lena	1,216	0.508%
52	Alma	1,195	0.499%
53	Beatrice	1,183	0.494%
54	Mae	1,140	0.476%
55	Jessie	1,116	0.466%
56	Hattie	1,106	0.462%
57	Thelma	1,090	0.455%
58	Cora	1,027	0.429%
59	Blanche	1,025	0.428%
60	Mamie	992	0.414%

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#	Name	Count	%
61	Lucy	979	0.409%
62	Evelyn	966	0.404%
63	Marion	963	0.402%
64	Pauline	938	0.392%
65	Stella	928	0.388%
66	Ada	913	0.381%
67	Lula	905	0.378%
68	Willie	901	0.376%
69	Jennie	898	0.375%
70	Lucille	894	0.374%

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#	Name	Count	%
71	Katherine	890	0.372%
72	Fannie	873	0.365%
73	Vera	860	0.359%
74	Beulah	859	0.359%
75	Rosa	845	0.353%
76	Virginia	825	0.345%
77	Maude	819	0.342%
78	Leona	779	0.325%
79	Dora	768	0.321%
80	Maggie	746	0.312%

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#	Name	Count	%
81	Nora	727	0.304%
82	Ellen	711	0.297%
83	Marguerite	699	0.292%
84	Eleanor	686	0.287%
85	Sadie	676	0.282%
86	Bernice	660	0.276%
87	Daisy	653	0.273%
88	Susie	650	0.272%
89	Ann	634	0.265%
90	Kathryn	620	0.259%

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#	Name	Count	%
91	Violet	611	0.255%
92	Hilda	574	0.240%
93	Nettie	562	0.235%
94	Theresa	554	0.231%
95	May	550	0.230%
96	Georgia	549	0.229%
97	Effie	545	0.228%
98	Olive	539	0.225%
99	Emily	537	0.224%
100	Della	534	0.223%

#	Name	Count	%
1	John	6,900	6.481%
2	William	5,990	5.626%
3	James	4,735	4.447%
4	George	3,609	3.390%
5	Charles	3,049	2.864%
6	Joseph	2,766	2.598%
7	Robert	2,543	2.389%
8	Frank	2,402	2.256%
9	Edward	1,917	1.801%
10	Henry	1,870	1.756%

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#	Name	Count	%
11	Thomas	1,820	1.709%
12	Walter	1,718	1.614%
13	Harry	1,594	1.497%
14	Arthur	1,329	1.248%
15	Albert	1,317	1.237%
16	Willie	1,294	1.215%
17	Clarence	1,196	1.123%
18	Fred	1,133	1.064%
19	Paul	924	0.868%
20	Roy	917	0.861%

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#	Name	Count	%
21	Harold	915	0.859%
22	Raymond	888	0.834%
23	Earl	818	0.768%
24	Carl	817	0.767%
25	Louis	797	0.749%
26	Richard	784	0.736%
27	Joe	756	0.710%
28	Ernest	691	0.649%
29	Ralph	682	0.641%
30	David	672	0.631%

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#	Name	Count	%
31	Charlie	654	0.614%
32	Jack	645	0.606%
33	Samuel	628	0.590%
34	Howard	584	0.549%
35	Herbert	573	0.538%
36	Francis	543	0.510%
37	Lawrence	535	0.503%
38	Elmer	520	0.488%
39	Alfred	506	0.475%
40	Andrew	479	0.450%

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#	Name	Count	%
41	Sam	479	0.450%
42	Leo	456	0.428%
43	Theodore	450	0.423%
44	Eugene	445	0.418%
45	Lee	424	0.398%
46	Floyd	423	0.397%
47	Oscar	422	0.396%
48	Daniel	416	0.391%
49	Jesse	411	0.386%
50	Russell	395	0.371%

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#	Name	Count	%
51	Herman	393	0.369%
52	Michael	384	0.361%
53	Will	364	0.342%
54	Leonard	362	0.340%
55	Clyde	356	0.334%
56	Benjamin	343	0.322%
57	Peter	343	0.322%
58	Claude	341	0.320%
59	Ray	338	0.317%
60	Frederick	336	0.316%

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#	Name	Count	%
61	Lester	332	0.312%
62	Anthony	323	0.303%
63	Lewis	309	0.290%
64	Martin	304	0.286%
65	Edwin	299	0.281%
66	Eddie	296	0.278%
67	Tom	291	0.273%
68	Lloyd	285	0.268%
69	Clifford	282	0.265%
70	Cecil	278	0.261%

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#	Name	Count	%
71	Edgar	271	0.255%
72	Leroy	268	0.252%
73	Ben	259	0.243%
74	Homer	257	0.241%
75	Chester	253	0.238%
76	Harvey	253	0.238%
77	Donald	250	0.235%
78	Kenneth	246	0.231%
79	Luther	244	0.229%
80	Bernard	242	0.227%

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#	Name	Count	%
81	Jim	239	0.224%
82	Stanley	239	0.224%
83	Norman	238	0.224%
84	Philip	232	0.218%
85	Jessie	231	0.217%
86	Everett	218	0.205%
87	Leon	208	0.195%
88	Allen	199	0.187%
89	Leslie	198	0.186%
90	Milton	197	0.185%

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#	Name	Count	%
91	Hugh	192	0.180%
92	Oliver	187	0.176%
93	Patrick	181	0.170%
94	Glenn	180	0.169%
95	Alvin	179	0.168%
96	Horace	178	0.167%
97	Melvin	176	0.165%
98	Jacob	172	0.162%
99	Guy	170	0.160%
100	Victor	169	0.159%

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