Name Yearbook

Top baby names of 1886

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	9,889
2	Anna	4,283
3	Emma	2,764
4	Elizabeth	2,680
5	Minnie	2,372
6	Margaret	2,275
7	Ida	2,049
8	Bertha	2,001
9	Clara	1,916
10	Florence	1,860
11	Alice	1,811
12	Bessie	1,791
13	Annie	1,765
14	Grace	1,723
15	Ethel	1,699
16	Sarah	1,569
17	Nellie	1,492
18	Martha	1,491
19	Ella	1,464
20	Mabel	1,422
21	Carrie	1,396
22	Laura	1,372
23	Edna	1,314
24	Lillian	1,282
25	Helen	1,267
26	Rose	1,261
27	Gertrude	1,249
28	Cora	1,231
29	Pearl	1,204
30	Maude	1,189
31	Edith	1,184
32	Eva	1,155
33	Hattie	1,139
34	Jennie	1,100
35	Myrtle	1,094
36	Julia	1,061
36	Louise	1,061
38	Frances	1,059
39	Mattie	1,044
40	Lula	1,040
41	Jessie	1,003
42	Lillie	995
43	Lena	992
44	Marie	988
45	Catherine	916
46	Ada	915
47	Josephine	844
48	Fannie	837
49	Dora	827
50	Lucy	817
51	Blanche	787
52	Agnes	779
53	Maggie	756
54	Katherine	744
55	Mamie	712
56	Nora	708
57	Stella	702
58	Elsie	698
59	Rosa	673
60	Effie	672
61	Mae	641
62	Alma	603
63	Daisy	602
63	May	602
65	Nettie	591
66	Ruth	581
67	Della	565
68	Sadie	562
69	Susie	559
70	Ellen	551
71	Lizzie	512
72	Nancy	492
73	Sallie	490
74	Maud	478
75	Lottie	450
76	Flora	443
77	Viola	440
78	Irene	437
79	Etta	433
80	Katie	431
81	Hazel	429
82	Mollie	421
83	Addie	417
84	Olive	404
85	Esther	396
86	Georgia	395
87	Lydia	392
88	Willie	388
89	Kathryn	383
90	Lulu	376
91	Amanda	370
91	Caroline	370
93	Emily	369
94	Charlotte	368
95	Rebecca	355
96	Virginia	353
97	Nannie	347
98	Beulah	345
99	Harriet	341
100	Kate	335

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	9,026
2	William	8,252
3	James	5,355
4	George	4,671
5	Charles	4,533
6	Frank	3,127
7	Joseph	2,594
8	Robert	2,443
9	Henry	2,404
10	Thomas	2,337
11	Edward	2,312
12	Harry	2,257
13	Walter	1,880
14	Arthur	1,656
15	Fred	1,599
16	Albert	1,488
17	Clarence	995
18	Samuel	870
19	Louis	846
20	Roy	767
21	Joe	759
22	Charlie	723
23	Richard	720
24	David	674
25	Ernest	668
26	Oscar	645
27	Will	642
28	Willie	641
29	Andrew	614
29	Jesse	614
31	Earl	570
32	Carl	556
33	Daniel	555
34	Sam	519
35	Elmer	485
36	Alfred	480
37	Howard	467
38	Paul	466
39	Benjamin	463
40	Frederick	461
41	Ralph	440
42	Peter	437
43	Lewis	431
44	Herman	418
45	Grover	407
46	Herbert	400
47	Lee	399
48	Claude	391
49	Jim	389
50	Tom	383
51	Eugene	362
52	Raymond	353
53	Michael	348
54	Jacob	346
55	Francis	344
56	Ben	335
57	Lawrence	331
58	Martin	329
59	Edwin	313
60	Harvey	310
61	Edgar	309
62	Clyde	307
63	Ed	303
64	Jack	299
65	Chester	287
66	Floyd	275
67	Ray	271
68	Otto	270
69	Theodore	258
70	Guy	255
71	Luther	253
72	Patrick	249
73	Leo	240
74	Leonard	236
75	Oliver	230
76	Bert	228
77	Hugh	227
78	Harold	224
78	Homer	224
78	Isaac	224
81	Charley	214
82	Allen	211
83	Alexander	206
84	August	203
85	Ira	198
86	Eddie	197
87	Philip	187
88	Marion	182
89	Jessie	181
89	Stephen	181
91	Bernard	180
92	Archie	175
93	Anthony	174
94	Julius	173
95	Clifford	172
96	Alex	161
96	Norman	161
98	Lester	160
99	Horace	156
100	Leroy	155