EveryBabyNames

Top Baby Names of 1896

United States · 357,483 recorded births this year · Source: Social Security Administration

Published by the EveryBabyNames data team · data last verified

Top 100 — Girls

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1Mary13,811—
#2Anna5,860—
#3Helen4,392—
#4Margaret4,050—
#5Ruth3,905↑1
#6Ethel3,502↑2
#7Elizabeth3,471↓2
#8Florence3,323↓1
#9Marie3,087—
#10Emma2,872—
#11Lillian2,702↑5
#12Alice2,651↑5
#13Edna2,604↑1
#14Clara2,582↓2
#15Bertha2,565↓4
#16Minnie2,530↓3
#17Grace2,485↑1
#18Bessie2,435↓3
#19Annie2,358—
#20Rose2,341↑1
#21Mabel2,283↓1
#22Hazel2,226—
#23Gertrude2,221↑1
#24Ida2,159↓1
#25Pearl2,101↑1
#26Martha2,022↓1
#27Esther1,964↑4
#27Frances1,964↑2
#29Edith1,932↓2
#30Myrtle1,928↓2
#31Elsie1,878↑1
#32Eva1,779↑2
#33Gladys1,757↑8
#34Nellie1,696↓5
#35Sarah1,691↓2
#36Ella1,683↓1
#37Laura1,665↓1
#38Agnes1,654↑2
#39Mildred1,620—
#40Catherine1,594↓2
#41Irene1,593↑2
#42Louise1,531↓5
#43Lillie1,483↑1
#44Julia1,407↑1
#45Carrie1,388↓3
#46Dorothy1,366↑11
#47Hattie1,320↓1
#48Lena1,318↑2
#49Mattie1,288↑2
#50Josephine1,256↓3
#51Alma1,243↑4
#52Cora1,204↓3
#53Jennie1,178—
#54Blanche1,150—
#55Mae1,148↓3
#56Maude1,104—
#57Jessie1,103↓9
#58Mamie1,081↑1
#59Lucy1,074↑2
#60Stella1,054—
#61Katherine1,047↑4
#61Viola1,047↑2
#63Ada1,041↓5
#64Lula1,012—
#65Fannie1,001↓3
#66Ruby994—
#67Marion987↑2
#68Dora874—
#69Maggie871↓2
#70Beatrice870↑3
#71Nora844↓1
#72Sadie827—
#73Ellen811↑2
#74Rosa808↓3
#75Pauline756↑1
#76Willie755↑2
#77Beulah750↓3
#78Marguerite725↑3
#79Susie718↑4
#80Effie716↓1
#81Vera675↓4
#82May671↓2
#83Daisy661↑1
#84Evelyn646↑3
#85Della642↑1
#86Lucille637
#87Nettie628↓5
#88Kathryn625↑2
#89Virginia621↓1
#90Olive583↑1
#91Lydia580↓6
#92Lottie574↑3
#93Georgia562↑1
#94Leona556
#95Hilda549
#96Emily527↓7
#96Flora527—
#96Nancy527↓3
#99Katie516↑1
#100Lizzie508↓1

Top 100 — Boys

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1John8,138—
#2William7,747—
#3James5,206—
#4George4,286—
#5Charles3,639—
#6Joseph3,051↑1
#7Frank2,845↓1
#8Robert2,719—
#9Edward2,296↑1
#10Henry2,183↓1
#11Harry2,091↑1
#12Thomas2,088↓1
#13Walter2,017—
#14Arthur1,821—
#15Albert1,434↑1
#16Fred1,393↓1
#17Clarence1,254—
#18Willie1,092—
#19Roy1,027—
#20Paul964—
#21Earl892↑1
#22Louis871↓1
#23Harold862↑6
#24Raymond859↑2
#25Carl852↓3
#26Richard834↑5
#27Joe767↑1
#28David765↑4
#29Ernest764↓5
#30Ralph746—
#31Samuel734↓6
#32Charlie714↓5
#33Howard677—
#34Herbert635↑2
#35Jesse586—
#36Elmer576↓2
#37Andrew566—
#38Daniel561↑2
#39Francis551↑6
#40Jack539↑6
#40Oscar539↓1
#42Alfred527↓4
#43Sam518—
#44Will508—
#45Eugene507↑5
#46Lawrence499↓5
#47Leo497↓6
#48Lee455↓1
#49Herman427—
#50Ray426↑6
#51Benjamin416↓3
#52Peter402↑1
#53Michael399↓1
#54Claude398↑1
#55Floyd396↓4
#56Lewis386↑1
#57Frederick381↓3
#58Clyde372↑1
#59Edwin351↑1
#60Leonard350↑1
#61Martin343↑4
#62Tom339—
#63Chester329↓6
#64Russell327↑2
#65Lester318↑3
#66Clifford311↑6
#67Lloyd308↑8
#68Edgar306↓4
#69Ben299↓6
#70Harvey292—
#71Jim281—
#72Leroy278↑6
#73Anthony276↑13
#74Luther265↓1
#75Hugh263↑5
#76Eddie262↑9
#76Guy262—
#78Stanley259↑4
#79Homer258↓12
#80Otto250↓11
#81Ed246↑3
#82Bernard241↓5
#82Jacob241↓8
#82Theodore241↑11
#85Leslie237↓4
#86Leon235↑1
#87Alexander232↑10
#88Archie230↑1
#89Jessie229↓10
#90Everett224↑4
#91Allen219↑7
#92Philip218↓2
#93Patrick214↓11
#94Donald211↑2
#95Horace204↓5
#96Victor201↑2
#97Cecil200↑3
#98Milton194
#98Oliver194↓10
#100Isaac191