Names by decade · United States

The names of the 1880s

Mary for girls and John for boys: the 30 most-given names of the decade, and the share of babies who got each.

Girls

  1. Mary1 in 14
  2. Anna1 in 34
  3. Emma1 in 52
  4. Elizabeth1 in 52
  5. Margaret1 in 60
  6. Minnie1 in 60
  7. Ida1 in 72
  8. Bertha1 in 72
  9. Clara1 in 74
  10. Alice1 in 77
  11. Annie1 in 77
  12. Florence1 in 79
  13. Bessie1 in 85
  14. Grace1 in 86
  15. Ethel1 in 88
  16. Sarah1 in 89
  17. Ella1 in 94
  18. Martha1 in 94
  19. Nellie1 in 95
  20. Mabel1 in 100
  21. Laura1 in 103
  22. Carrie1 in 105
  23. Cora1 in 110
  24. Helen1 in 114
  25. Maude1 in 115
  26. Lillian1 in 116
  27. Gertrude1 in 118
  28. Rose1 in 119
  29. Edna1 in 119
  30. Pearl1 in 120

Boys

  1. John1 in 12
  2. William1 in 13
  3. James1 in 20
  4. George1 in 23
  5. Charles1 in 23
  6. Frank1 in 35
  7. Joseph1 in 42
  8. Henry1 in 45
  9. Robert1 in 46
  10. Thomas1 in 46
  11. Edward1 in 47
  12. Harry1 in 48
  13. Walter1 in 60
  14. Arthur1 in 68
  15. Fred1 in 70
  16. Albert1 in 76
  17. Samuel1 in 120
  18. Clarence1 in 125
  19. Louis1 in 132
  20. David1 in 145
  21. Joe1 in 154
  22. Charlie1 in 154
  23. Richard1 in 156
  24. Ernest1 in 163
  25. Roy1 in 167
  26. Will1 in 177
  27. Andrew1 in 181
  28. Jesse1 in 182
  29. Oscar1 in 183
  30. Willie1 in 185

Year by year, the 1880s

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