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Top Baby Names 1886

Updated: 2025-09-26 · Total Girls: 144,533 · Total Boys: 110,783

Girl Baby Names — Top 100

#	Name	Count	%
1	Mary	9,889	6.842%
2	Anna	4,283	2.963%
3	Emma	2,764	1.912%
4	Elizabeth	2,680	1.854%
5	Minnie	2,372	1.641%
6	Margaret	2,275	1.574%
7	Ida	2,049	1.418%
8	Bertha	2,001	1.384%
9	Clara	1,916	1.326%
10	Florence	1,860	1.287%

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#	Name	Count	%
11	Alice	1,811	1.253%
12	Bessie	1,791	1.239%
13	Annie	1,765	1.221%
14	Grace	1,723	1.192%
15	Ethel	1,699	1.176%
16	Sarah	1,569	1.086%
17	Nellie	1,492	1.032%
18	Martha	1,491	1.032%
19	Ella	1,464	1.013%
20	Mabel	1,422	0.984%

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#	Name	Count	%
21	Carrie	1,396	0.966%
22	Laura	1,372	0.949%
23	Edna	1,314	0.909%
24	Lillian	1,282	0.887%
25	Helen	1,267	0.877%
26	Rose	1,261	0.872%
27	Gertrude	1,249	0.864%
28	Cora	1,231	0.852%
29	Pearl	1,204	0.833%
30	Maude	1,189	0.823%

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#	Name	Count	%
31	Edith	1,184	0.819%
32	Eva	1,155	0.799%
33	Hattie	1,139	0.788%
34	Jennie	1,100	0.761%
35	Myrtle	1,094	0.757%
36	Julia	1,061	0.734%
37	Louise	1,061	0.734%
38	Frances	1,059	0.733%
39	Mattie	1,044	0.722%
40	Lula	1,040	0.720%

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#	Name	Count	%
41	Jessie	1,003	0.694%
42	Lillie	995	0.688%
43	Lena	992	0.686%
44	Marie	988	0.684%
45	Catherine	916	0.634%
46	Ada	915	0.633%
47	Josephine	844	0.584%
48	Fannie	837	0.579%
49	Dora	827	0.572%
50	Lucy	817	0.565%

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#	Name	Count	%
51	Blanche	787	0.545%
52	Agnes	779	0.539%
53	Maggie	756	0.523%
54	Katherine	744	0.515%
55	Mamie	712	0.493%
56	Nora	708	0.490%
57	Stella	702	0.486%
58	Elsie	698	0.483%
59	Rosa	673	0.466%
60	Effie	672	0.465%

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#	Name	Count	%
61	Mae	641	0.444%
62	Alma	603	0.417%
63	Daisy	602	0.417%
64	May	602	0.417%
65	Nettie	591	0.409%
66	Ruth	581	0.402%
67	Della	565	0.391%
68	Sadie	562	0.389%
69	Susie	559	0.387%
70	Ellen	551	0.381%

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#	Name	Count	%
71	Lizzie	512	0.354%
72	Nancy	492	0.340%
73	Sallie	490	0.339%
74	Maud	478	0.331%
75	Lottie	450	0.311%
76	Flora	443	0.307%
77	Viola	440	0.304%
78	Irene	437	0.302%
79	Etta	433	0.300%
80	Katie	431	0.298%

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#	Name	Count	%
81	Hazel	429	0.297%
82	Mollie	421	0.291%
83	Addie	417	0.289%
84	Olive	404	0.280%
85	Esther	396	0.274%
86	Georgia	395	0.273%
87	Lydia	392	0.271%
88	Willie	388	0.268%
89	Kathryn	383	0.265%
90	Lulu	376	0.260%

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#	Name	Count	%
91	Amanda	370	0.256%
92	Caroline	370	0.256%
93	Emily	369	0.255%
94	Charlotte	368	0.255%
95	Rebecca	355	0.246%
96	Virginia	353	0.244%
97	Nannie	347	0.240%
98	Beulah	345	0.239%
99	Harriet	341	0.236%
100	Kate	335	0.232%

#	Name	Count	%
1	John	9,026	8.147%
2	William	8,252	7.449%
3	James	5,355	4.834%
4	George	4,671	4.216%
5	Charles	4,533	4.092%
6	Frank	3,127	2.823%
7	Joseph	2,594	2.342%
8	Robert	2,443	2.205%
9	Henry	2,404	2.170%
10	Thomas	2,337	2.110%

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#	Name	Count	%
11	Edward	2,312	2.087%
12	Harry	2,257	2.037%
13	Walter	1,880	1.697%
14	Arthur	1,656	1.495%
15	Fred	1,599	1.443%
16	Albert	1,488	1.343%
17	Clarence	995	0.898%
18	Samuel	870	0.785%
19	Louis	846	0.764%
20	Roy	767	0.692%

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#	Name	Count	%
21	Joe	759	0.685%
22	Charlie	723	0.653%
23	Richard	720	0.650%
24	David	674	0.608%
25	Ernest	668	0.603%
26	Oscar	645	0.582%
27	Will	642	0.580%
28	Willie	641	0.579%
29	Andrew	614	0.554%
30	Jesse	614	0.554%

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#	Name	Count	%
31	Earl	570	0.515%
32	Carl	556	0.502%
33	Daniel	555	0.501%
34	Sam	519	0.468%
35	Elmer	485	0.438%
36	Alfred	480	0.433%
37	Howard	467	0.422%
38	Paul	466	0.421%
39	Benjamin	463	0.418%
40	Frederick	461	0.416%

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#	Name	Count	%
41	Ralph	440	0.397%
42	Peter	437	0.394%
43	Lewis	431	0.389%
44	Herman	418	0.377%
45	Grover	407	0.367%
46	Herbert	400	0.361%
47	Lee	399	0.360%
48	Claude	391	0.353%
49	Jim	389	0.351%
50	Tom	383	0.346%

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#	Name	Count	%
51	Eugene	362	0.327%
52	Raymond	353	0.319%
53	Michael	348	0.314%
54	Jacob	346	0.312%
55	Francis	344	0.311%
56	Ben	335	0.302%
57	Lawrence	331	0.299%
58	Martin	329	0.297%
59	Edwin	313	0.283%
60	Harvey	310	0.280%

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#	Name	Count	%
61	Edgar	309	0.279%
62	Clyde	307	0.277%
63	Ed	303	0.274%
64	Jack	299	0.270%
65	Chester	287	0.259%
66	Floyd	275	0.248%
67	Ray	271	0.245%
68	Otto	270	0.244%
69	Theodore	258	0.233%
70	Guy	255	0.230%

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#	Name	Count	%
71	Luther	253	0.228%
72	Patrick	249	0.225%
73	Leo	240	0.217%
74	Leonard	236	0.213%
75	Oliver	230	0.208%
76	Bert	228	0.206%
77	Hugh	227	0.205%
78	Harold	224	0.202%
79	Homer	224	0.202%
80	Isaac	224	0.202%

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#	Name	Count	%
81	Charley	214	0.193%
82	Allen	211	0.190%
83	Alexander	206	0.186%
84	August	203	0.183%
85	Ira	198	0.179%
86	Eddie	197	0.178%
87	Philip	187	0.169%
88	Marion	182	0.164%
89	Jessie	181	0.163%
90	Stephen	181	0.163%

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#	Name	Count	%
91	Bernard	180	0.162%
92	Archie	175	0.158%
93	Anthony	174	0.157%
94	Julius	173	0.156%
95	Clifford	172	0.155%
96	Alex	161	0.145%
97	Norman	161	0.145%
98	Lester	160	0.144%
99	Horace	156	0.141%
100	Leroy	155	0.140%

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