EveryBabyNames

Top Baby Names of 1885

United States · 240,854 recorded births this year · Source: Social Security Administration

Published by the EveryBabyNames data team · data last verified

Top 100 — Girls

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1Mary9,128—
#2Anna3,994—
#3Emma2,728—
#4Elizabeth2,582—
#5Margaret2,204↑1
#6Minnie2,178↓1
#7Clara1,910↑1
#8Bertha1,860↑1
#9Ida1,854↓2
#10Annie1,703—
#11Alice1,681—
#12Florence1,667—
#13Bessie1,588↑2
#14Grace1,575↓1
#15Ethel1,495↑3
#16Nellie1,432↑1
#17Martha1,425↓1
#18Sarah1,424↓4
#19Ella1,395—
#20Mabel1,349—
#21Laura1,325—
#22Carrie1,283—
#23Cora1,253—
#24Maude1,222—
#25Rose1,164↑5
#26Pearl1,146↓1
#27Lillian1,143↓1
#28Helen1,134↑5
#29Gertrude1,086↓1
#30Edna1,077↑6
#31Edith1,071↓4
#32Julia1,062↑5
#33Jennie1,045↓5
#34Myrtle1,026—
#35Mattie1,014↓4
#36Hattie1,008↓4
#37Lillie979↑3
#38Eva971—
#39Louise956↓4
#40Jessie952↑2
#41Lula949↓2
#42Marie885↑7
#43Ada876↑1
#43Lena876↓2
#45Catherine846↓2
#46Frances844—
#47Fannie783↑3
#47Josephine783↓2
#49Dora776↑2
#50Katherine751↑5
#51Maggie716↓3
#52Lucy711↓5
#53Blanche710↓1
#54Agnes695↓1
#55Elsie685↑8
#56Nora670—
#57Stella649↑3
#58Rosa623—
#59Effie613↑3
#60Daisy607↓6
#60May607↑1
#62Mamie606↓5
#63Mae578↑1
#64Ellen555↓5
#65Lizzie537↑1
#66Nettie536↑1
#67Nancy527↑1
#68Alma515↑2
#69Sadie514↑2
#70Ruth506↑4
#71Della500↓6
#72Susie477↑1
#73Sallie457↓4
#74Flora445↑3
#75Maud429↓3
#76Addie406↑9
#77Lydia404↑3
#78Caroline399—
#79Mollie396—
#80Lottie393↓4
#81Katie388↑2
#82Irene376↑13
#83Etta372↓8
#84Georgia371↑6
#85Lulu360↑1
#86Olive349↓3
#87Emily346↓6
#88Viola345↓6
#89Harriet342↑2
#90Amanda339↑2
#91Jane330↑7
#92Esther320↑7
#92Kathryn320↓6
#94Charlotte317↓8
#95Willie312↓2
#96Beulah309
#96Kate309↓10
#98Ollie305
#99Rebecca302
#99Susan302↓5

Top 100 — Boys

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1John8,756—
#2William8,044—
#3James5,175—
#4George4,674—
#5Charles4,599—
#6Frank3,067—
#7Joseph2,540—
#8Henry2,406↑1
#9Robert2,322↑1
#10Thomas2,266↓2
#11Edward2,220—
#12Harry2,198—
#13Walter1,808—
#14Fred1,562↑1
#15Arthur1,516↓1
#16Albert1,429—
#17Clarence906↑1
#18Samuel888↓1
#19Louis809—
#20Grover768—
#21Ernest718↑4
#22David712↓1
#23Charlie705↑1
#24Roy691↑2
#25Joe681↓3
#26Richard672↓3
#27Will625↑1
#28Oscar623↑2
#29Willie614↑2
#30Andrew599↓1
#31Jesse556↓4
#32Daniel535—
#33Peter516↑1
#34Carl494↑2
#35Sam492↓2
#36Earl481↑4
#37Frederick466↑5
#38Benjamin464—
#39Alfred446↓2
#40Elmer443↓5
#41Howard438↑3
#42Lewis437↓3
#43Paul428↑2
#44Ralph422↓4
#45Herbert388↑1
#46Jim370↑9
#46Michael370↑5
#48Tom361↓1
#49Martin357↓1
#50Lee348↓7
#51Eugene345↑8
#52Claude343↑2
#52Jacob343↓2
#54Ed328↑6
#55Herman326↓7
#56Francis319↑1
#57Clyde318↓1
#58Raymond308↑4
#59Harvey304↓6
#60Edgar303↑3
#61Jack295↑7
#62Ben292↓10
#63Edwin289↓2
#64Lawrence288↑7
#65Charley285↓2
#66Bert276↑1
#67Chester273↓9
#68Guy266↑4
#69Otto263↓4
#70Floyd259—
#70Luther259↓1
#72Oliver258↑2
#73Hugh257—
#74Ray237↑3
#75Ira235↓9
#76Homer228↑3
#77Patrick217↑1
#78Alexander205↓2
#79Isaac204↓4
#79Leonard204↑3
#81Jessie202↑9
#82Harold201↑3
#83Leo199↑1
#83Theodore199↓2
#85Archie196↓3
#86August193↓6
#87Allen184—
#88Sidney170
#89Philip163↑7
#90Leroy162↑8
#91Bernard160
#92Alex159
#93Stephen158—
#94Horace155↑4
#95Anthony153↓7
#96Warren151↓2
#97Julius150↓2
#98Cleveland147↓6
#99Leon146
#100Victor143