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Top Baby Names 1885

Updated: 2025-09-26 · Total Girls: 133,055 · Total Boys: 107,799

Girl Baby Names — Top 100

#	Name	Count	%
1	Mary	9,128	6.860%
2	Anna	3,994	3.002%
3	Emma	2,728	2.050%
4	Elizabeth	2,582	1.941%
5	Margaret	2,204	1.656%
6	Minnie	2,178	1.637%
7	Clara	1,910	1.436%
8	Bertha	1,860	1.398%
9	Ida	1,854	1.393%
10	Annie	1,703	1.280%

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#	Name	Count	%
11	Alice	1,681	1.263%
12	Florence	1,667	1.253%
13	Bessie	1,588	1.193%
14	Grace	1,575	1.184%
15	Ethel	1,495	1.124%
16	Nellie	1,432	1.076%
17	Martha	1,425	1.071%
18	Sarah	1,424	1.070%
19	Ella	1,395	1.048%
20	Mabel	1,349	1.014%

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#	Name	Count	%
21	Laura	1,325	0.996%
22	Carrie	1,283	0.964%
23	Cora	1,253	0.942%
24	Maude	1,222	0.918%
25	Rose	1,164	0.875%
26	Pearl	1,146	0.861%
27	Lillian	1,143	0.859%
28	Helen	1,134	0.852%
29	Gertrude	1,086	0.816%
30	Edna	1,077	0.809%

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#	Name	Count	%
31	Edith	1,071	0.805%
32	Julia	1,062	0.798%
33	Jennie	1,045	0.785%
34	Myrtle	1,026	0.771%
35	Mattie	1,014	0.762%
36	Hattie	1,008	0.758%
37	Lillie	979	0.736%
38	Eva	971	0.730%
39	Louise	956	0.719%
40	Jessie	952	0.715%

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#	Name	Count	%
41	Lula	949	0.713%
42	Marie	885	0.665%
43	Ada	876	0.658%
44	Lena	876	0.658%
45	Catherine	846	0.636%
46	Frances	844	0.634%
47	Fannie	783	0.588%
48	Josephine	783	0.588%
49	Dora	776	0.583%
50	Katherine	751	0.564%

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#	Name	Count	%
51	Maggie	716	0.538%
52	Lucy	711	0.534%
53	Blanche	710	0.534%
54	Agnes	695	0.522%
55	Elsie	685	0.515%
56	Nora	670	0.504%
57	Stella	649	0.488%
58	Rosa	623	0.468%
59	Effie	613	0.461%
60	Daisy	607	0.456%

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#	Name	Count	%
61	May	607	0.456%
62	Mamie	606	0.455%
63	Mae	578	0.434%
64	Ellen	555	0.417%
65	Lizzie	537	0.404%
66	Nettie	536	0.403%
67	Nancy	527	0.396%
68	Alma	515	0.387%
69	Sadie	514	0.386%
70	Ruth	506	0.380%

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#	Name	Count	%
71	Della	500	0.376%
72	Susie	477	0.359%
73	Sallie	457	0.343%
74	Flora	445	0.334%
75	Maud	429	0.322%
76	Addie	406	0.305%
77	Lydia	404	0.304%
78	Caroline	399	0.300%
79	Mollie	396	0.298%
80	Lottie	393	0.295%

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#	Name	Count	%
81	Katie	388	0.292%
82	Irene	376	0.283%
83	Etta	372	0.280%
84	Georgia	371	0.279%
85	Lulu	360	0.271%
86	Olive	349	0.262%
87	Emily	346	0.260%
88	Viola	345	0.259%
89	Harriet	342	0.257%
90	Amanda	339	0.255%

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#	Name	Count	%
91	Jane	330	0.248%
92	Esther	320	0.241%
93	Kathryn	320	0.241%
94	Charlotte	317	0.238%
95	Willie	312	0.234%
96	Beulah	309	0.232%
97	Kate	309	0.232%
98	Ollie	305	0.229%
99	Rebecca	302	0.227%
100	Susan	302	0.227%

#	Name	Count	%
1	John	8,756	8.123%
2	William	8,044	7.462%
3	James	5,175	4.801%
4	George	4,674	4.336%
5	Charles	4,599	4.266%
6	Frank	3,067	2.845%
7	Joseph	2,540	2.356%
8	Henry	2,406	2.232%
9	Robert	2,322	2.154%
10	Thomas	2,266	2.102%

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#	Name	Count	%
11	Edward	2,220	2.059%
12	Harry	2,198	2.039%
13	Walter	1,808	1.677%
14	Fred	1,562	1.449%
15	Arthur	1,516	1.406%
16	Albert	1,429	1.326%
17	Clarence	906	0.840%
18	Samuel	888	0.824%
19	Louis	809	0.750%
20	Grover	768	0.712%

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#	Name	Count	%
21	Ernest	718	0.666%
22	David	712	0.660%
23	Charlie	705	0.654%
24	Roy	691	0.641%
25	Joe	681	0.632%
26	Richard	672	0.623%
27	Will	625	0.580%
28	Oscar	623	0.578%
29	Willie	614	0.570%
30	Andrew	599	0.556%

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#	Name	Count	%
31	Jesse	556	0.516%
32	Daniel	535	0.496%
33	Peter	516	0.479%
34	Carl	494	0.458%
35	Sam	492	0.456%
36	Earl	481	0.446%
37	Frederick	466	0.432%
38	Benjamin	464	0.430%
39	Alfred	446	0.414%
40	Elmer	443	0.411%

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#	Name	Count	%
41	Howard	438	0.406%
42	Lewis	437	0.405%
43	Paul	428	0.397%
44	Ralph	422	0.391%
45	Herbert	388	0.360%
46	Jim	370	0.343%
47	Michael	370	0.343%
48	Tom	361	0.335%
49	Martin	357	0.331%
50	Lee	348	0.323%

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#	Name	Count	%
51	Eugene	345	0.320%
52	Claude	343	0.318%
53	Jacob	343	0.318%
54	Ed	328	0.304%
55	Herman	326	0.302%
56	Francis	319	0.296%
57	Clyde	318	0.295%
58	Raymond	308	0.286%
59	Harvey	304	0.282%
60	Edgar	303	0.281%

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#	Name	Count	%
61	Jack	295	0.274%
62	Ben	292	0.271%
63	Edwin	289	0.268%
64	Lawrence	288	0.267%
65	Charley	285	0.264%
66	Bert	276	0.256%
67	Chester	273	0.253%
68	Guy	266	0.247%
69	Otto	263	0.244%
70	Floyd	259	0.240%

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#	Name	Count	%
71	Luther	259	0.240%
72	Oliver	258	0.239%
73	Hugh	257	0.238%
74	Ray	237	0.220%
75	Ira	235	0.218%
76	Homer	228	0.212%
77	Patrick	217	0.201%
78	Alexander	205	0.190%
79	Isaac	204	0.189%
80	Leonard	204	0.189%

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#	Name	Count	%
81	Jessie	202	0.187%
82	Harold	201	0.186%
83	Leo	199	0.185%
84	Theodore	199	0.185%
85	Archie	196	0.182%
86	August	193	0.179%
87	Allen	184	0.171%
88	Sidney	170	0.158%
89	Philip	163	0.151%
90	Leroy	162	0.150%

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#	Name	Count	%
91	Bernard	160	0.148%
92	Alex	159	0.148%
93	Stephen	158	0.147%
94	Horace	155	0.144%
95	Anthony	153	0.142%
96	Warren	151	0.140%
97	Julius	150	0.139%
98	Cleveland	147	0.136%
99	Leon	146	0.135%
100	Victor	143	0.133%

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