Name Yearbook

Top baby names of 1883

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	8,012
2	Anna	3,306
3	Emma	2,367
4	Elizabeth	2,255
5	Minnie	2,035
6	Margaret	1,881
7	Bertha	1,681
8	Ida	1,634
9	Annie	1,589
10	Clara	1,548
11	Alice	1,488
12	Sarah	1,359
13	Grace	1,307
14	Florence	1,298
15	Martha	1,255
16	Ella	1,251
17	Nellie	1,246
18	Bessie	1,241
19	Laura	1,183
20	Ethel	1,132
21	Carrie	1,108
22	Maude	1,096
23	Mabel	1,086
24	Cora	1,081
25	Gertrude	923
26	Lillian	907
27	Jennie	904
28	Hattie	895
29	Pearl	886
30	Mattie	883
31	Edith	881
32	Eva	879
33	Rose	877
34	Julia	875
35	Helen	862
36	Catherine	853
37	Myrtle	851
38	Louise	847
39	Lillie	837
40	Jessie	834
41	Edna	823
42	Lena	800
43	Lula	790
44	Ada	778
45	Frances	710
46	Josephine	697
47	Fannie	696
48	Lucy	663
48	Maggie	663
50	Daisy	659
51	Dora	640
52	Agnes	623
53	Marie	622
54	Blanche	610
55	Nora	589
56	Katherine	583
57	May	532
58	Mamie	531
59	Stella	529
60	Effie	507
60	Rosa	507
62	Ellen	500
63	Lizzie	496
64	Nettie	494
65	Elsie	479
66	Della	453
67	Susie	436
68	Maud	425
68	Sadie	425
70	Mae	423
71	Nancy	412
72	Sallie	409
73	Flora	387
73	Ruth	387
75	Lydia	378
76	Lottie	372
77	Addie	362
78	Katie	361
79	Alma	359
80	Etta	352
81	Emily	342
82	Harriet	341
83	Viola	331
84	Georgia	325
85	Susan	322
86	Caroline	321
87	Nannie	305
88	Lulu	302
89	Mollie	301
90	Kate	294
90	Olive	294
92	Charlotte	291
93	Kathryn	290
94	Amanda	287
95	Eliza	274
96	Willie	264
97	Amelia	262
97	Belle	262
99	Esther	260
99	Irene	260

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	8,894
2	William	8,387
3	James	5,223
4	Charles	4,826
5	George	4,736
6	Frank	2,986
7	Joseph	2,515
8	Henry	2,383
9	Robert	2,334
10	Thomas	2,316
11	Edward	2,250
12	Harry	2,110
13	Walter	1,705
14	Arthur	1,591
15	Fred	1,502
16	Albert	1,496
17	Samuel	937
18	Clarence	837
19	Louis	796
20	David	734
21	Richard	649
22	Charlie	643
23	Ernest	641
24	Andrew	623
25	Daniel	615
26	Joe	607
26	Oscar	607
28	Jesse	584
29	Will	576
30	Roy	556
31	Benjamin	508
32	Carl	480
33	Sam	476
34	Willie	474
35	Alfred	457
36	Peter	450
37	Frederick	438
38	Lewis	431
39	Howard	429
40	Elmer	423
41	Herbert	422
42	Earl	389
43	Lee	388
44	Tom	386
45	Ralph	385
46	Martin	377
47	Herman	359
48	Paul	358
49	Jacob	356
50	Clyde	336
51	Eugene	325
52	Jim	322
53	Harvey	318
54	Claude	315
55	Michael	307
56	Ben	306
57	Edwin	299
58	Edgar	292
59	Chester	290
60	Francis	285
61	Lawrence	282
62	Bert	273
63	Charley	254
64	Ed	247
65	Jack	242
66	Otto	240
67	Ira	239
68	Raymond	233
69	Luther	229
70	Isaac	227
71	Guy	224
72	Oliver	219
73	Floyd	217
74	Hugh	215
75	Patrick	213
76	Homer	210
77	August	209
78	Ray	202
79	Leonard	200
80	Alexander	187
81	Theodore	185
82	Allen	175
83	Horace	167
84	Archie	166
84	Philip	166
86	Sidney	165
87	Marion	163
88	Julius	160
89	Jessie	151
90	Milton	149
91	Warren	146
92	Anthony	143
92	Everett	143
92	Leroy	143
95	Leo	142
96	Bernard	141
97	Leon	140
97	Stephen	140
99	Emil	139
100	Clifford	138