EveryBabyNames

Top Baby Names of 1881

United States · 192,688 recorded births this year · Source: Social Security Administration

Published by the EveryBabyNames data team · data last verified

Top 100 — Girls

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1Mary6,919—
#2Anna2,698—
#3Emma2,034—
#4Elizabeth1,852—
#5Margaret1,658↑1
#6Minnie1,653↓1
#7Ida1,439—
#8Annie1,326↑3
#9Bertha1,324—
#10Alice1,308↓2
#11Clara1,242↑1
#12Sarah1,226↓2
#13Ella1,148—
#14Nellie1,096↑4
#15Grace1,089↑4
#16Florence1,046↓2
#17Martha1,044↓1
#18Cora969↓3
#19Laura962↓2
#20Carrie958—
#21Maude923—
#22Bessie903↑1
#23Mabel893↓1
#24Gertrude791↑1
#25Ethel788↑13
#26Jennie784↓2
#27Edith778↑1
#28Hattie775↓1
#29Mattie754—
#30Julia737↓4
#31Rose734↓1
#32Lillian723—
#33Lillie678↑1
#34Eva661↑7
#34Jessie661↑2
#36Lula655↑3
#37Myrtle643↑3
#38Pearl641↑9
#39Edna637↑6
#40Catherine635↓9
#41Ada628↓8
#42Louise617↓6
#43Helen612↓8
#44Lucy611—
#45Frances586↓3
#46Dora585↑5
#47Fannie565↑2
#48Josephine563↑2
#49Daisy562↓1
#50Lena555↓7
#51Maggie532↓5
#52Katherine504↑1
#53Rosa500↓1
#54Marie499↑1
#55Nora498—
#56Effie463↑7
#57Blanche456↑2
#58May451↓1
#59Nancy429↑3
#60Della428↑6
#61Agnes424↓7
#62Nettie419↑3
#63Sallie416↑1
#63Stella416↓3
#65Ellen413↓4
#66Mamie412↓8
#67Lizzie396—
#68Susie367↑1
#69Sadie366↑5
#70Elsie344↑8
#71Maud328↓1
#72Flora317↓4
#73Caroline316↑2
#73Etta316↓1
#75Mae314↓4
#76Lulu313↑10
#77Lydia299—
#78Alma293↑4
#79Susan292↑1
#80Lottie289↑8
#81Addie287↑2
#82Mollie281↓1
#83Katie279↓7
#84Ruth275↑9
#85Harriet270↓12
#86Kate267↓7
#87Amanda263↑2
#88Nannie258↓1
#89Georgia256↓5
#90Emily244↑10
#91Eliza238↓6
#92Viola237↑2
#93Amelia235↑3
#94Willie229
#95Charlotte227↓4
#96Rebecca226↓4
#97Belle219↓7
#98Kathryn218
#99Jane216↓1
#100Olive211↓5

Top 100 — Boys

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1John8,768—
#2William8,524—
#3James5,441—
#4George4,664↑1
#5Charles4,636↓1
#6Frank2,834—
#7Joseph2,456—
#8Henry2,339↑1
#9Thomas2,282↓1
#10Edward2,177↑1
#11Robert2,140↓1
#12Harry2,002—
#13Walter1,670—
#14Arthur1,575—
#15Fred1,418—
#16Albert1,319—
#17Samuel919—
#18David750—
#19Louis746—
#20Charlie668↑1
#20Clarence668↑1
#22Richard641↑1
#23Joe639↓3
#24Andrew588—
#25Ernest571↑1
#26Will550↑1
#27Jesse536↑1
#28Oscar530↑1
#29Daniel527↓4
#30Willie498↑4
#31Benjamin481↑1
#31Sam481↑5
#33Alfred466↑2
#34Roy440↑3
#35Lewis439↓5
#36Frederick433↓3
#37Peter428↓6
#38Elmer388↑3
#39Jacob381—
#40Herbert369↓2
#41Carl359↑1
#41Howard359↑3
#43Tom349↓3
#44Lee342↓1
#45Ralph329↑9
#46Martin327↓2
#47Jim323↑2
#48Earl314↑4
#48Eugene314↑5
#50Bert312↓3
#50Edgar312↑11
#52Herman304↓4
#53Claude302↑3
#54Michael298↓8
#55Paul291↑5
#56Ben289↑2
#57Ira286↑9
#58Harvey282↓8
#59Chester274↑26
#59Edwin274↓3
#61Ed272↓6
#62Charley266↓4
#63Francis259↓13
#64Isaac258↓2
#65Luther249↓1
#66Lawrence244↓1
#67Oliver238↑2
#68Clyde232↑4
#69Otto221↓6
#70Hugh219↑1
#71Alexander209↑2
#72Leonard206↑6
#73Jack197↑4
#74Raymond195↑13
#75Patrick188↓8
#76Guy186↓8
#77Homer181↓1
#78Floyd178↓3
#78Theodore178↓8
#80Allen172↑2
#80August172↓6
#82Marion162↓2
#83Philip156↓2
#83Warren156↑6
#85Horace152↓6
#86Dan148↑11
#86Ray148↑9
#88Garfield147
#88Stephen147↓4
#90Emil145
#91Jessie143↓1
#91Milton143—
#93Willis142↓7
#94Calvin138↑6
#95Dave135
#96Bernard130↑1
#97Julius129↓3
#97Leroy129
#97Sidney129↓2
#100Anthony128