EveryBabyNames

Top Baby Names of 1897

United States · 346,957 recorded births this year · Source: Social Security Administration

Published by the EveryBabyNames data team · data last verified

Top 100 — Girls

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1Mary13,413—
#2Anna5,429—
#3Helen4,519—
#4Margaret4,146—
#5Ruth3,878—
#6Elizabeth3,442↑1
#7Florence3,369↑1
#8Ethel3,182↓2
#9Marie3,078—
#10Emma2,698—
#11Lillian2,683—
#12Edna2,567↑1
#13Bertha2,502↑2
#14Grace2,458↑3
#15Clara2,454↓1
#16Alice2,431↓4
#17Bessie2,407↑1
#18Hazel2,339↑4
#19Rose2,316↑1
#20Annie2,307↓1
#21Minnie2,284↓5
#22Mabel2,222↓1
#23Gertrude2,135—
#24Ida2,108—
#25Pearl2,076—
#26Martha1,990—
#27Frances1,975—
#28Esther1,911↓1
#29Myrtle1,833↑1
#30Edith1,823↓1
#31Elsie1,763—
#32Gladys1,737↑1
#33Mildred1,723↑6
#34Sarah1,713↑1
#35Eva1,709↓3
#36Ella1,708—
#37Nellie1,693↓3
#38Irene1,587↑3
#39Laura1,585↓2
#40Agnes1,579↓2
#41Louise1,563↑1
#42Catherine1,511↓2
#43Dorothy1,472↑3
#44Lillie1,401↓1
#45Julia1,380↓1
#46Carrie1,365↓1
#47Josephine1,267↑3
#48Hattie1,251↓1
#49Cora1,246↑3
#50Lena1,239↓2
#51Alma1,213—
#52Jessie1,191↑5
#53Mattie1,181↓4
#54Mae1,144↑1
#55Blanche1,092↓1
#56Jennie1,074↓3
#57Ruby1,025↑9
#58Viola1,017↑3
#59Mamie1,006↓1
#60Marion994↑7
#61Lucy984↓2
#61Maude984↓5
#63Lula971↑1
#64Stella966↓4
#65Katherine962↓4
#66Ada956↓3
#66Fannie956↓1
#68Beatrice942↑2
#69Dora862↓1
#70Willie818↑6
#71Nora812—
#72Pauline777↑3
#73Vera776↑8
#74Rosa770—
#75Maggie760↓6
#76Sadie757↓4
#77Ellen733↓4
#78Marguerite728—
#79Effie698↑1
#80Evelyn690↑4
#81Beulah688↓4
#82Lucille648↑4
#83Lydia642↑8
#84Virginia638↑5
#85Susie626↓6
#86Daisy624↓3
#86Della624↓1
#88Emily619↑8
#88Leona619↑6
#90Nettie614↓3
#91May595↓9
#92Olive583↓2
#93Kathryn570↓5
#94Hilda561↑1
#95Eleanor559
#96Nancy553—
#97Ann545
#97Sallie545
#99Lizzie543↑1
#100Theresa533

Top 100 — Boys

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1John7,550—
#2William7,198—
#3James5,113—
#4George4,078—
#5Charles3,341—
#6Joseph2,827—
#7Frank2,726—
#8Robert2,701—
#9Edward2,121—
#10Henry1,994—
#11Thomas1,980↑1
#12Walter1,895↑1
#13Harry1,879↓2
#14Arthur1,647—
#15Albert1,377—
#16Fred1,301—
#17Clarence1,201—
#18Willie1,151—
#19Roy999—
#20Paul923—
#21Harold860↑2
#22Raymond837↑2
#23Louis831↓1
#24Earl829↓3
#25Carl828—
#26Joe798↑1
#27Ernest785↑2
#28Samuel759↑3
#29David730↓1
#30Charlie714↑2
#31Richard702↓5
#32Ralph697↓2
#33Howard634—
#34Elmer587↑2
#35Herbert565↓1
#36Andrew555↑1
#37Oscar543↑3
#38Jesse529↓3
#39Daniel520↓1
#40Alfred513↑2
#41Lawrence505↑5
#42Jack497↓2
#43Francis496↓4
#44Will491—
#45Sam478↓2
#46Leo462↑1
#47Lee453↑1
#48Floyd451↑7
#49Eugene447↓4
#50Herman412↓1
#51Peter397↑1
#51Ray397↓1
#53Edwin380↑6
#54Benjamin378↓3
#54Lewis378↑2
#56Frederick369↑1
#57Michael368↓4
#58Clyde359—
#59Claude345↓5
#60Martin312↑1
#61Leonard310↓1
#61Lester310↑4
#63Tom298↓1
#64Russell295—
#65Ben291↑4
#65Leroy291↑7
#67Chester290↓4
#68Clifford285↓2
#69Edgar278↓1
#69Homer278↑10
#71Luther271↑3
#72Harvey268↓2
#73Eddie263↑3
#74Lloyd258↓7
#75Jim252↓4
#76Anthony249↓3
#77Stanley240↑1
#78Bernard234↑4
#78Jessie234↑11
#78Otto234↑2
#81Leon229↑5
#82Allen226↑9
#83Leslie222↑2
#84Cecil216↑13
#85Theodore215↓3
#86Hugh213↓11
#87Patrick210↑6
#88Jacob204↓6
#89Philip200↑3
#90Ed198↓9
#91Norman197
#92Donald195↑2
#92Guy195↓16
#94Stephen194
#95Archie190↓7
#95Victor190↑1
#97Alvin186
#98Percy183
#99Ira180
#100Everett179↓10