EveryBabyNames

Top Baby Names of 1888

United States · 299,474 recorded births this year · Source: Social Security Administration

Published by the EveryBabyNames data team · data last verified

Top 100 — Girls

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1Mary11,754—
#2Anna4,982—
#3Elizabeth3,224—
#4Emma3,087—
#5Margaret2,904—
#6Minnie2,654—
#7Bertha2,450—
#8Florence2,444↑1
#9Ethel2,374↑2
#10Bessie2,278↑3
#11Clara2,230↓3
#12Ida2,229↓2
#13Alice2,202↑1
#14Annie2,188↓2
#15Grace2,090—
#16Helen1,847↑5
#17Mabel1,830↑1
#18Ella1,774↓2
#19Martha1,769↓2
#20Sarah1,755—
#21Nellie1,736↓2
#22Edna1,687↑2
#23Lillian1,656↑3
#24Carrie1,647↓1
#25Laura1,624↓3
#26Pearl1,591↓1
#27Rose1,590↑3
#28Gertrude1,468—
#29Edith1,453—
#30Frances1,452↑4
#31Cora1,433↓4
#32Maude1,396↓1
#33Louise1,334↑2
#34Eva1,329↓1
#35Myrtle1,310↑1
#36Hattie1,298↓4
#36Jennie1,298↑2
#38Julia1,292↑1
#39Mattie1,268↑1
#40Marie1,258↑3
#41Lillie1,249↓4
#42Catherine1,212↑2
#43Jessie1,200↓2
#44Lula1,173↑3
#45Lena1,162↓3
#46Ada1,116↓1
#47Elsie1,112↑2
#48Agnes1,046↓2
#49Josephine1,001↑1
#50Fannie991↑2
#51Lucy964—
#52Blanche942↑2
#53Mamie917↑4
#54Dora898↓6
#54Hazel898↑18
#56Katherine893↓3
#57Maggie882↓2
#58Alma853↑5
#59Ruth850↑3
#60Mae836↓2
#61Nora832↓5
#61Rosa832↓1
#63May782↓2
#64Stella775↓5
#65Effie744↓1
#66Irene722↑6
#67Nettie692↓2
#68Ellen691↓2
#68Sadie691↑2
#70Sallie633↓2
#71Della621↑3
#71Susie621↑4
#73Daisy612↓6
#74Viola596↑6
#75Lizzie593↓7
#76Nancy582↓5
#77Esther572↑2
#78Flora541↑4
#79Willie522↑9
#80Katie516↓3
#81Lottie511—
#82Etta500↓4
#83Mildred499↑6
#84Georgia477↑7
#85Lydia472↓9
#86Maud469↓3
#87Olive465↓2
#88Charlotte464↑3
#89Caroline458↓5
#90Emily457↑8
#91Addie455↓5
#92Jane446
#92Kathryn446↓5
#94Ruby445
#95Beulah426↓5
#96Ollie411—
#97Amanda404↓1
#98Pauline393
#99Harriet389↓5
#100Virginia385

Top 100 — Boys

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1John9,247—
#2William8,705—
#3James5,562—
#4George4,912—
#5Charles4,591—
#6Frank3,459—
#7Joseph2,993—
#8Robert2,814↑2
#9Harry2,759↑3
#10Henry2,596↓2
#11Edward2,470↓1
#12Thomas2,449↓3
#13Walter2,040—
#14Arthur1,710—
#15Fred1,665—
#16Albert1,569—
#17Clarence1,022—
#18Samuel931—
#19Louis884—
#20Roy856—
#21David801↑1
#22Charlie796↑2
#23Joe789↓2
#24Willie786↑3
#25Benjamin781↑9
#26Richard772↓1
#27Ernest766↓4
#28Will707↑2
#29Carl675↓1
#29Earl675↑3
#31Oscar647↓2
#32Jesse637↓6
#33Andrew615—
#34Sam607↑4
#35Daniel566↓4
#36Ralph547↑2
#37Alfred536↓2
#38Paul529↑2
#39Elmer527↓3
#40Howard513↑2
#41Peter498↑2
#42Frederick496↓5
#43Herbert485↓2
#44Grover474↑15
#45Raymond469↑2
#46Michael466↑2
#47Ben463↑11
#48Lee430↓4
#49Tom416↑3
#50Lewis412↓1
#51Herman403↓6
#52Harrison400
#53Eugene398—
#54Martin378↓3
#55Claude374↓9
#56Jim362↓6
#57Francis353↓4
#57Jacob353↓1
#57Leo353↑16
#60Clyde344↓5
#61Lawrence343↓1
#62Harvey334↑3
#63Ray331↑3
#64Jack329↑4
#65Edgar321↓1
#66Otto312↑1
#67Floyd302↑6
#68Ed301↓6
#69Edwin298↓12
#69Harold298↓8
#71Guy297—
#72Chester288↑6
#73Bert282↓1
#74Luther275↓11
#75Allen260↑6
#76Homer256↓6
#77Charley254↓2
#77Jessie254↑9
#79Hugh253↓10
#80Theodore249↑2
#81Patrick245↓5
#82Alexander237↑5
#83Leonard225↓5
#84Ira222↓7
#85Isaac221↓2
#86August213↓3
#87Bernard207↑10
#88Oliver206↓8
#89Julius197↑4
#90Leon196↑9
#90Philip196↑5
#92Clifford194↓1
#93Anthony193↑5
#93Eddie193
#95Leroy192↓7
#96Archie191↓11
#97Lester189↓8
#98Stephen187↓7
#99Leslie175↓9
#99Lloyd175