Names by decade · United States

The names of the 1890s

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 17
  2. Anna1 in 40
  3. Margaret1 in 59
  4. Helen1 in 59
  5. Elizabeth1 in 66
  6. Ruth1 in 68
  7. Florence1 in 69
  8. Ethel1 in 71
  9. Emma1 in 78
  10. Marie1 in 86
  11. Clara1 in 87
  12. Bertha1 in 88
  13. Minnie1 in 90
  14. Bessie1 in 91
  15. Alice1 in 91
  16. Lillian1 in 92
  17. Edna1 in 92
  18. Grace1 in 93
  19. Annie1 in 96
  20. Mabel1 in 101
  21. Ida1 in 105
  22. Rose1 in 105
  23. Hazel1 in 110
  24. Gertrude1 in 112
  25. Martha1 in 114
  26. Pearl1 in 117
  27. Frances1 in 123
  28. Myrtle1 in 125
  29. Edith1 in 126
  30. Nellie1 in 129

Boys

  1. John1 in 14
  2. William1 in 16
  3. James1 in 22
  4. George1 in 26
  5. Charles1 in 31
  6. Joseph1 in 39
  7. Frank1 in 40
  8. Robert1 in 44
  9. Edward1 in 52
  10. Henry1 in 53
  11. Harry1 in 53
  12. Thomas1 in 54
  13. Walter1 in 59
  14. Arthur1 in 70
  15. Fred1 in 80
  16. Albert1 in 83
  17. Clarence1 in 96
  18. Willie1 in 116
  19. Roy1 in 117
  20. Louis1 in 135
  21. Earl1 in 138
  22. Paul1 in 139
  23. Carl1 in 142
  24. Ernest1 in 145
  25. Samuel1 in 145
  26. Richard1 in 151
  27. Raymond1 in 151
  28. Joe1 in 152
  29. David1 in 156
  30. Charlie1 in 157

Year by year, the 1890s

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