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Top Baby Names 1905

Updated: 2025-09-26 · Total Girls: 291,616 · Total Boys: 132,306

Girl Baby Names — Top 100

#	Name	Count	%
1	Mary	16,067	5.510%
2	Helen	6,811	2.336%
3	Margaret	5,690	1.951%
4	Anna	5,424	1.860%
5	Ruth	5,068	1.738%
6	Elizabeth	4,121	1.413%
7	Dorothy	3,937	1.350%
8	Mildred	3,758	1.289%
9	Marie	3,643	1.249%
10	Alice	3,610	1.238%

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#	Name	Count	%
11	Florence	3,478	1.193%
12	Ethel	3,401	1.166%
13	Lillian	3,185	1.092%
14	Gladys	2,996	1.027%
15	Edna	2,953	1.013%
16	Frances	2,887	0.990%
17	Annie	2,793	0.958%
18	Rose	2,724	0.934%
19	Grace	2,630	0.902%
20	Bessie	2,446	0.839%

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#	Name	Count	%
21	Bertha	2,434	0.835%
22	Clara	2,397	0.822%
23	Louise	2,367	0.812%
24	Irene	2,357	0.808%
25	Hazel	2,351	0.806%
26	Emma	2,298	0.788%
27	Gertrude	2,276	0.780%
28	Catherine	2,198	0.754%
29	Mabel	2,178	0.747%
30	Edith	2,137	0.733%

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#	Name	Count	%
31	Pearl	2,108	0.723%
32	Martha	2,091	0.717%
33	Myrtle	2,026	0.695%
34	Esther	1,993	0.683%
35	Minnie	1,950	0.669%
36	Thelma	1,945	0.667%
37	Josephine	1,894	0.649%
38	Ruby	1,885	0.646%
39	Eva	1,815	0.622%
40	Elsie	1,811	0.621%

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#	Name	Count	%
41	Sarah	1,762	0.604%
42	Ida	1,757	0.603%
43	Agnes	1,718	0.589%
44	Viola	1,697	0.582%
45	Beatrice	1,661	0.570%
46	Evelyn	1,661	0.570%
47	Julia	1,642	0.563%
48	Nellie	1,626	0.558%
49	Laura	1,566	0.537%
50	Lucille	1,533	0.526%

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#	Name	Count	%
51	Lillie	1,481	0.508%
52	Ella	1,438	0.493%
53	Virginia	1,394	0.478%
54	Pauline	1,381	0.474%
55	Mattie	1,371	0.470%
56	Alma	1,333	0.457%
57	Jessie	1,315	0.451%
58	Carrie	1,288	0.442%
59	Willie	1,285	0.441%
60	Mae	1,284	0.440%

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#	Name	Count	%
61	Lena	1,258	0.431%
62	Hattie	1,197	0.410%
63	Blanche	1,190	0.408%
64	Katherine	1,190	0.408%
65	Marion	1,141	0.391%
66	Lucy	1,132	0.388%
67	Stella	1,097	0.376%
68	Fannie	1,085	0.372%
69	Leona	1,082	0.371%
70	Mamie	1,068	0.366%

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#	Name	Count	%
71	Vera	1,053	0.361%
72	Cora	1,044	0.358%
73	Eleanor	1,041	0.357%
74	Bernice	1,032	0.354%
75	Ann	996	0.342%
76	Jennie	981	0.336%
77	Beulah	968	0.332%
78	Lula	963	0.330%
79	Rosa	922	0.316%
80	Ada	873	0.299%

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#	Name	Count	%
81	Ellen	845	0.290%
82	Violet	831	0.285%
83	Doris	812	0.278%
84	Maggie	809	0.277%
85	Betty	807	0.277%
86	Kathryn	788	0.270%
87	Daisy	776	0.266%
88	Lois	763	0.262%
89	Dora	757	0.260%
90	Marguerite	753	0.258%

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#	Name	Count	%
91	Sadie	750	0.257%
92	Nora	742	0.254%
93	Susie	739	0.253%
94	Georgia	722	0.248%
95	Velma	722	0.248%
96	Marjorie	712	0.244%
97	Maude	709	0.243%
98	Anne	708	0.243%
99	Opal	702	0.241%
100	Emily	683	0.234%

#	Name	Count	%
1	John	8,059	6.091%
2	William	6,495	4.909%
3	James	6,042	4.567%
4	George	4,256	3.217%
5	Charles	3,608	2.727%
6	Robert	3,410	2.577%
7	Joseph	3,302	2.496%
8	Frank	2,837	2.144%
9	Edward	2,366	1.788%
10	Thomas	2,135	1.614%

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#	Name	Count	%
11	Henry	2,126	1.607%
12	Walter	1,902	1.438%
13	Willie	1,782	1.347%
14	Harry	1,619	1.224%
15	Albert	1,532	1.158%
16	Arthur	1,505	1.138%
17	Clarence	1,377	1.041%
18	Fred	1,284	0.970%
19	Paul	1,262	0.954%
20	Harold	1,258	0.951%

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#	Name	Count	%
21	Raymond	1,159	0.876%
22	Richard	1,033	0.781%
23	Joe	1,024	0.774%
24	Roy	1,016	0.768%
25	Louis	981	0.741%
26	Carl	959	0.725%
27	Ralph	938	0.709%
28	Jack	907	0.686%
29	Earl	904	0.683%
30	Samuel	856	0.647%

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#	Name	Count	%
31	Ernest	845	0.639%
32	David	838	0.633%
33	Theodore	834	0.630%
34	Charlie	801	0.605%
35	Howard	735	0.556%
36	Francis	685	0.518%
37	Herbert	681	0.515%
38	Lawrence	669	0.506%
39	Sam	620	0.469%
40	Andrew	619	0.468%

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#	Name	Count	%
41	Elmer	602	0.455%
42	Eugene	593	0.448%
43	Alfred	591	0.447%
44	Floyd	523	0.395%
45	Michael	513	0.388%
46	Leo	512	0.387%
47	Leonard	495	0.374%
48	Anthony	490	0.370%
49	Lee	486	0.367%
50	Daniel	484	0.366%

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#	Name	Count	%
51	Herman	475	0.359%
52	Clyde	474	0.358%
53	Kenneth	474	0.358%
54	Jesse	443	0.335%
55	Leroy	441	0.333%
56	Oscar	436	0.330%
57	Lester	432	0.327%
58	Russell	432	0.327%
59	Donald	425	0.321%
60	Ray	424	0.320%

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#	Name	Count	%
61	Clifford	420	0.317%
62	Peter	409	0.309%
63	Claude	399	0.302%
64	Chester	388	0.293%
65	Lewis	384	0.290%
66	Stanley	384	0.290%
67	Frederick	381	0.288%
68	Benjamin	379	0.286%
69	Lloyd	369	0.279%
70	Edwin	357	0.270%

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#	Name	Count	%
71	Norman	350	0.265%
72	Cecil	347	0.262%
73	Eddie	346	0.262%
74	Jessie	338	0.255%
75	Martin	332	0.251%
76	Homer	318	0.240%
77	Tom	317	0.240%
78	Edgar	315	0.238%
79	Luther	308	0.233%
80	Milton	299	0.226%

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#	Name	Count	%
81	Johnnie	297	0.224%
82	Bernard	292	0.221%
83	Melvin	291	0.220%
84	Ben	290	0.219%
85	Harvey	286	0.216%
86	Will	286	0.216%
87	Leon	274	0.207%
88	Allen	272	0.206%
89	Everett	270	0.204%
90	Victor	268	0.203%

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#	Name	Count	%
91	Roosevelt	264	0.200%
92	Alvin	258	0.195%
93	Stephen	246	0.186%
94	Leslie	237	0.179%
95	Jim	236	0.178%
96	Philip	234	0.177%
97	Virgil	226	0.171%
98	Jacob	220	0.166%
99	Otis	216	0.163%
100	Marvin	215	0.163%

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