Name Yearbook

Top baby names of 1889

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	11,648
2	Anna	5,062
3	Elizabeth	3,058
4	Margaret	2,917
5	Emma	2,884
6	Minnie	2,624
7	Florence	2,465
8	Ethel	2,463
9	Bessie	2,343
10	Clara	2,319
11	Bertha	2,293
12	Alice	2,145
13	Annie	2,123
14	Ida	2,122
15	Grace	2,049
16	Mabel	1,947
17	Helen	1,909
18	Edna	1,815
19	Nellie	1,752
20	Sarah	1,730
21	Martha	1,711
22	Ella	1,647
23	Lillian	1,640
24	Pearl	1,588
25	Laura	1,567
26	Rose	1,550
27	Carrie	1,547
28	Gertrude	1,543
29	Edith	1,523
30	Marie	1,436
31	Eva	1,372
32	Cora	1,365
33	Myrtle	1,361
34	Frances	1,351
35	Hattie	1,328
36	Maude	1,293
37	Lillie	1,289
38	Louise	1,283
39	Jennie	1,252
40	Julia	1,201
41	Elsie	1,199
42	Catherine	1,198
43	Jessie	1,196
44	Mattie	1,173
45	Lena	1,096
46	Ruth	1,073
47	Lula	1,067
48	Hazel	1,056
49	Josephine	1,047
50	Agnes	1,033
51	Ada	1,005
52	Blanche	972
53	Fannie	909
54	Lucy	893
55	Stella	891
56	Katherine	889
57	Mae	883
57	Mamie	883
59	Dora	882
60	Nora	831
61	Maggie	825
62	Alma	819
63	Irene	737
64	May	723
65	Effie	711
66	Rosa	707
67	Sadie	664
68	Ellen	653
69	Mildred	625
70	Nettie	622
71	Susie	607
72	Della	606
73	Daisy	583
74	Lizzie	570
75	Esther	553
76	Viola	536
77	Sallie	525
78	Ruby	522
79	Flora	516
80	Katie	502
81	Beulah	498
81	Lottie	498
83	Lydia	496
84	Caroline	491
85	Willie	488
86	Nancy	470
87	Etta	465
88	Olive	464
89	Charlotte	455
90	Addie	448
91	Georgia	445
92	Maud	432
93	Emily	429
94	Kathryn	415
94	Pauline	415
96	Gladys	414
97	Amanda	413
98	Mollie	402
99	Harriet	397
100	Nannie	396

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	8,548
2	William	7,772
3	James	5,020
4	George	4,430
5	Charles	4,199
6	Frank	2,975
7	Joseph	2,729
8	Harry	2,559
9	Robert	2,513
10	Edward	2,299
11	Henry	2,286
12	Thomas	2,233
13	Walter	1,916
14	Arthur	1,668
15	Fred	1,554
16	Albert	1,353
17	Clarence	984
18	Roy	888
19	Louis	837
20	Samuel	810
21	Benjamin	760
22	David	757
23	Ernest	736
24	Richard	711
25	Joe	709
26	Willie	708
27	Carl	704
28	Earl	688
29	Charlie	685
30	Will	631
31	Jesse	576
32	Oscar	572
33	Andrew	561
34	Elmer	557
35	Paul	555
36	Daniel	515
37	Raymond	511
38	Howard	503
39	Ralph	495
40	Sam	486
41	Alfred	472
41	Herbert	472
43	Ben	453
44	Frederick	451
45	Peter	425
46	Lee	415
47	Lewis	414
48	Herman	405
49	Claude	386
50	Tom	379
51	Michael	377
52	Eugene	369
53	Martin	367
54	Ray	355
55	Francis	346
56	Lawrence	342
57	Harold	340
58	Jim	328
59	Leo	325
60	Edgar	322
60	Jack	322
62	Clyde	318
63	Floyd	313
64	Harvey	311
65	Otto	309
66	Edwin	306
67	Jacob	295
68	Harrison	288
69	Chester	274
70	Guy	271
71	Ed	270
71	Luther	270
73	Homer	255
74	Patrick	236
75	Bert	231
75	Theodore	231
77	Leonard	229
78	Hugh	225
79	Allen	222
80	Anthony	219
81	Bernard	215
82	Lester	213
83	Grover	210
83	Oliver	210
85	Ira	207
85	Jessie	207
87	Clifford	202
88	Charley	199
89	Russell	198
90	Archie	195
91	Isaac	188
92	Leroy	186
93	Alexander	185
94	Leon	184
95	Philip	183
96	August	171
96	Milton	171
98	Lloyd	167
98	Warren	167
100	Horace	166