EveryBabyNames

Top Baby Names of 1901

United States · 345,812 recorded births this year · Source: Social Security Administration

Published by the EveryBabyNames data team · data last verified

Top 100 — Girls

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1Mary13,136—
#2Helen5,247—
#3Anna4,923—
#4Margaret4,424—
#5Ruth3,974—
#6Elizabeth3,216—
#7Marie3,157↑2
#8Florence3,131↓1
#9Ethel3,067↓1
#10Lillian2,681—
#11Gladys2,676↑10
#12Alice2,562↑2
#13Edna2,488↓1
#14Mildred2,424↑6
#15Grace2,398↑2
#16Annie2,396↓5
#17Emma2,374↓4
#18Clara2,319↑1
#19Bertha2,257↓3
#20Rose2,212↓2
#21Bessie2,183↓6
#22Dorothy2,173↑5
#23Hazel2,097↑6
#23Mabel2,097↑2
#25Frances2,071↑1
#26Minnie2,026↓4
#27Gertrude1,964↓4
#28Myrtle1,892↑4
#29Martha1,886↓1
#30Irene1,879↑1
#31Pearl1,866↓7
#32Edith1,863↑4
#33Esther1,844↑6
#34Ida1,835↓4
#35Elsie1,747↑3
#36Louise1,640↓1
#37Eva1,617↓4
#38Catherine1,599↓4
#39Agnes1,525↑2
#40Sarah1,514↓3
#41Nellie1,454↑2
#42Ella1,435—
#43Josephine1,434↑4
#44Laura1,402↑1
#45Lillie1,382↓5
#46Julia1,362—
#47Viola1,331↑2
#48Carrie1,247—
#49Ruby1,225↑2
#50Mattie1,224↓6
#51Lena1,216↑1
#52Alma1,195↑5
#53Beatrice1,183↑3
#54Mae1,140—
#55Jessie1,116↓2
#56Hattie1,106↓6
#57Thelma1,090↑16
#58Cora1,027↓3
#59Blanche1,025↑1
#60Mamie992↓1
#61Lucy979—
#62Evelyn966↑8
#63Marion963↑3
#64Pauline938↑7
#65Stella928↑3
#66Ada913↑6
#67Lula905↓5
#68Willie901↓10
#69Jennie898↓5
#70Lucille894↓3
#71Katherine890↓6
#72Fannie873↓10
#73Vera860↑3
#74Beulah859↑4
#75Rosa845↓6
#76Virginia825↓2
#77Maude819—
#78Leona779↑7
#79Dora768—
#80Maggie746↓5
#81Nora727↑2
#82Ellen711—
#83Marguerite699↑3
#84Eleanor686↑4
#85Sadie676↓1
#86Bernice660↑10
#87Daisy653↓6
#88Susie650↓8
#89Ann634↑3
#90Kathryn620↑3
#91Violet611
#92Hilda574
#93Nettie562↑1
#94Theresa554
#95May550↓4
#96Georgia549↓9
#97Effie545↓8
#98Olive539↓3
#99Emily537
#100Della534↓10

Top 100 — Boys

RankNameBirthsvs. prior yr
#1John6,900—
#2William5,990—
#3James4,735—
#4George3,609—
#5Charles3,049—
#6Joseph2,766↑1
#7Robert2,543↓1
#8Frank2,402—
#9Edward1,917—
#10Henry1,870—
#11Thomas1,820—
#12Walter1,718—
#13Harry1,594—
#14Arthur1,329↑1
#15Albert1,317↑1
#16Willie1,294↓2
#17Clarence1,196↑1
#18Fred1,133↓1
#19Paul924—
#20Roy917↑1
#21Harold915↓1
#22Raymond888↑1
#23Earl818↑5
#24Carl817↑5
#25Louis797↑1
#26Richard784↓2
#27Joe756↓5
#28Ernest691↑2
#29Ralph682↑2
#30David672↑2
#31Charlie654↓6
#32Jack645↓5
#33Samuel628—
#34Howard584↑1
#35Herbert573↑1
#36Francis543↑5
#37Lawrence535↑3
#38Elmer520—
#39Alfred506↑3
#40Andrew479↓3
#40Sam479↓6
#42Leo456↑4
#43Theodore450↑18
#44Eugene445↑1
#45Lee424↓6
#46Floyd423↑2
#47Oscar422—
#48Daniel416↓4
#49Jesse411↑1
#50Russell395↑12
#51Herman393↓2
#52Michael384↓1
#53Will364↓10
#54Leonard362—
#55Clyde356↑1
#56Benjamin343↑1
#56Peter343↑2
#58Claude341↑1
#59Ray338↓4
#60Frederick336↑4
#61Lester332↓1
#62Anthony323↑5
#63Lewis309↓11
#64Martin304↑6
#65Edwin299↑9
#66Eddie296↓3
#67Tom291↓15
#68Lloyd285↑10
#69Clifford282↓3
#70Cecil278↑6
#71Edgar271—
#72Leroy268↓7
#73Ben259—
#74Homer257↑6
#75Chester253↓3
#75Harvey253↑6
#77Donald250↑2
#78Kenneth246↑12
#79Luther244↑3
#80Bernard242↑6
#81Jim239↓13
#81Stanley239↓4
#83Norman238↓1
#84Philip232↑10
#85Jessie231↓16
#86Everett218↑14
#87Leon208↓2
#88Allen199
#89Leslie198↑2
#90Milton197↑8
#91Hugh192↓3
#92Oliver187↑3
#93Patrick181↓4
#94Glenn180
#95Alvin179
#96Horace178↑1
#97Melvin176
#98Jacob172
#99Guy170—
#100Victor169↓8