Name Yearbook

Top baby names of 1891

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	11,704
2	Anna	5,099
3	Margaret	3,065
4	Elizabeth	3,059
5	Emma	2,884
6	Florence	2,716
7	Ethel	2,689
8	Minnie	2,428
9	Helen	2,417
10	Bertha	2,372
11	Clara	2,360
12	Bessie	2,323
13	Annie	2,096
14	Grace	2,088
15	Mabel	2,029
16	Alice	2,015
17	Ida	2,002
18	Edna	1,963
19	Ruth	1,857
20	Lillian	1,812
21	Martha	1,744
22	Rose	1,696
23	Ella	1,685
24	Sarah	1,669
25	Nellie	1,647
26	Gertrude	1,645
27	Pearl	1,605
28	Marie	1,596
29	Edith	1,509
29	Laura	1,509
31	Myrtle	1,458
32	Hazel	1,447
33	Eva	1,412
34	Frances	1,397
35	Cora	1,343
36	Carrie	1,342
37	Louise	1,333
38	Elsie	1,303
39	Lillie	1,247
40	Jennie	1,238
41	Catherine	1,219
41	Hattie	1,219
43	Julia	1,200
44	Maude	1,188
45	Lena	1,174
46	Mattie	1,165
47	Agnes	1,125
48	Jessie	1,119
49	Josephine	1,031
50	Lula	1,010
51	Ada	975
52	Irene	950
53	Lucy	944
54	Mae	933
55	Alma	929
56	Blanche	917
57	Fannie	916
58	Dora	870
59	Stella	867
60	Maggie	841
61	Mamie	830
62	Katherine	803
63	Nora	801
64	Mildred	761
65	Rosa	729
66	Esther	710
67	Effie	704
68	May	696
69	Ellen	675
70	Gladys	633
71	Nettie	620
72	Sadie	617
73	Viola	609
74	Della	607
75	Sallie	569
76	Dorothy	566
76	Susie	566
78	Willie	562
79	Daisy	557
80	Ruby	554
81	Beulah	526
82	Lizzie	525
83	Nancy	523
84	Marguerite	511
85	Olive	509
86	Lydia	507
87	Kathryn	504
88	Lottie	501
89	Flora	497
90	Katie	494
91	Beatrice	485
92	Addie	467
93	Pauline	455
94	Etta	452
95	Emily	444
95	Georgia	444
97	Virginia	439
98	Vera	426
99	Marion	413
100	Caroline	402

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	7,680
2	William	6,763
3	James	4,516
4	George	3,931
5	Charles	3,640
6	Frank	2,652
7	Joseph	2,572
8	Robert	2,240
9	Harry	2,132
10	Henry	2,049
11	Edward	1,989
12	Thomas	1,982
13	Walter	1,668
14	Arthur	1,514
15	Fred	1,362
16	Albert	1,207
17	Clarence	1,007
18	Roy	838
19	Louis	786
20	Samuel	753
21	Willie	739
22	Ernest	715
23	Charlie	707
24	Carl	675
25	Earl	674
26	David	673
27	Richard	609
28	Ralph	587
29	Joe	584
30	Raymond	575
31	Paul	564
32	Oscar	551
33	Andrew	521
34	Will	520
35	Jesse	519
36	Elmer	508
37	Daniel	505
38	Herbert	501
39	Alfred	499
40	Howard	485
41	Benjamin	461
42	Harold	419
43	Sam	418
44	Frederick	412
45	Peter	396
46	Lawrence	389
47	Herman	383
48	Eugene	362
49	Ray	360
50	Lewis	357
51	Leo	353
52	Lee	342
53	Floyd	336
54	Francis	333
54	Michael	333
56	Martin	331
57	Claude	327
57	Clyde	327
57	Edwin	327
60	Tom	318
61	Ben	302
62	Jack	290
63	Jim	288
64	Edgar	277
65	Harvey	274
65	Otto	274
67	Guy	262
68	Chester	252
69	Jacob	238
70	Ed	237
71	Luther	236
72	Leonard	235
73	Hugh	233
74	Homer	230
75	Jessie	227
76	Theodore	224
77	Oliver	212
77	Patrick	212
79	Archie	201
80	Philip	198
81	Clifford	196
82	Charley	193
83	Lester	191
84	Leroy	190
85	Bernard	187
86	August	186
86	Russell	186
88	Lloyd	185
89	Bert	181
90	Eddie	179
90	Ira	179
92	Stanley	178
93	Everett	174
94	Allen	173
95	Alexander	172
96	Anthony	170
97	Horace	165
98	Leslie	164
99	Grover	163
99	Norman	163