EveryBabyNames

Top Baby Names of 1886

United States · 255,316 recorded births this year · Source: Social Security Administration

Published by the EveryBabyNames data team · data last verified

Top 100 — Girls

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1Mary9,889—
#2Anna4,283—
#3Emma2,764—
#4Elizabeth2,680—
#5Minnie2,372↑1
#6Margaret2,275↓1
#7Ida2,049↑2
#8Bertha2,001—
#9Clara1,916↓2
#10Florence1,860↑2
#11Alice1,811—
#12Bessie1,791↑1
#13Annie1,765↓3
#14Grace1,723—
#15Ethel1,699—
#16Sarah1,569↑2
#17Nellie1,492↓1
#18Martha1,491↓1
#19Ella1,464—
#20Mabel1,422—
#21Carrie1,396↑1
#22Laura1,372↓1
#23Edna1,314↑7
#24Lillian1,282↑3
#25Helen1,267↑3
#26Rose1,261↓1
#27Gertrude1,249↑2
#28Cora1,231↓5
#29Pearl1,204↓3
#30Maude1,189↓6
#31Edith1,184—
#32Eva1,155↑6
#33Hattie1,139↑3
#34Jennie1,100↓1
#35Myrtle1,094↓1
#36Julia1,061↓4
#36Louise1,061↑3
#38Frances1,059↑8
#39Mattie1,044↓4
#40Lula1,040↑1
#41Jessie1,003↓1
#42Lillie995↓5
#43Lena992—
#44Marie988↓2
#45Catherine916—
#46Ada915↓3
#47Josephine844—
#48Fannie837↓1
#49Dora827—
#50Lucy817↑2
#51Blanche787↑2
#52Agnes779↑2
#53Maggie756↓2
#54Katherine744↓4
#55Mamie712↑7
#56Nora708—
#57Stella702—
#58Elsie698↓3
#59Rosa673↓1
#60Effie672↓1
#61Mae641↑2
#62Alma603↑6
#63Daisy602↓3
#63May602↓3
#65Nettie591↑1
#66Ruth581↑4
#67Della565↑4
#68Sadie562↑1
#69Susie559↑3
#70Ellen551↓6
#71Lizzie512↓6
#72Nancy492↓5
#73Sallie490—
#74Maud478↑1
#75Lottie450↑5
#76Flora443↓2
#77Viola440↑11
#78Irene437↑4
#79Etta433↑4
#80Katie431↑1
#81Hazel429
#82Mollie421↓3
#83Addie417↓7
#84Olive404↑2
#85Esther396↑7
#86Georgia395↓2
#87Lydia392↓10
#88Willie388↑7
#89Kathryn383↑3
#90Lulu376↓5
#91Amanda370↓1
#91Caroline370↓13
#93Emily369↓6
#94Charlotte368—
#95Rebecca355↑4
#96Virginia353
#97Nannie347
#98Beulah345↓2
#99Harriet341↓10
#100Kate335↓4

Top 100 — Boys

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1John9,026—
#2William8,252—
#3James5,355—
#4George4,671—
#5Charles4,533—
#6Frank3,127—
#7Joseph2,594—
#8Robert2,443↑1
#9Henry2,404↓1
#10Thomas2,337—
#11Edward2,312—
#12Harry2,257—
#13Walter1,880—
#14Arthur1,656↑1
#15Fred1,599↓1
#16Albert1,488—
#17Clarence995—
#18Samuel870—
#19Louis846—
#20Roy767↑4
#21Joe759↑4
#22Charlie723↑1
#23Richard720↑3
#24David674↓2
#25Ernest668↓4
#26Oscar645↑2
#27Will642—
#28Willie641↑1
#29Andrew614↑1
#29Jesse614↑2
#31Earl570↑5
#32Carl556↑2
#33Daniel555↓1
#34Sam519↑1
#35Elmer485↑5
#36Alfred480↑3
#37Howard467↑4
#38Paul466↑5
#39Benjamin463↓1
#40Frederick461↓3
#41Ralph440↑3
#42Peter437↓9
#43Lewis431↓1
#44Herman418↑11
#45Grover407↓25
#46Herbert400↓1
#47Lee399↑3
#48Claude391↑4
#49Jim389↓3
#50Tom383↓2
#51Eugene362—
#52Raymond353↑6
#53Michael348↓7
#54Jacob346↓2
#55Francis344↑1
#56Ben335↑6
#57Lawrence331↑7
#58Martin329↓9
#59Edwin313↑4
#60Harvey310↓1
#61Edgar309↓1
#62Clyde307↓5
#63Ed303↓9
#64Jack299↓3
#65Chester287↑2
#66Floyd275↑4
#67Ray271↑7
#68Otto270↑1
#69Theodore258↑14
#70Guy255↓2
#71Luther253↓1
#72Patrick249↑5
#73Leo240↑10
#74Leonard236↑5
#75Oliver230↓3
#76Bert228↓10
#77Hugh227↓4
#78Harold224↑4
#78Homer224↓2
#78Isaac224↑1
#81Charley214↓16
#82Allen211↑5
#83Alexander206↓5
#84August203↑2
#85Ira198↓10
#86Eddie197
#87Philip187↑2
#88Marion182
#89Jessie181↓8
#89Stephen181↑4
#91Bernard180—
#92Archie175↓7
#93Anthony174↑2
#94Julius173↑3
#95Clifford172
#96Alex161↓4
#96Norman161
#98Lester160
#99Horace156↓5
#100Leroy155↓10