Most Popular Baby Names in 1880

Top Boy Names

# Name Births
1 John 9,655
2 William 9,532
3 James 5,927
4 Charles 5,348
5 George 5,126
6 Frank 3,242
7 Joseph 2,632
8 Thomas 2,534
9 Henry 2,444
10 Robert 2,415
11 Edward 2,364
12 Harry 2,152
13 Walter 1,755
14 Arthur 1,599
15 Fred 1,569
16 Albert 1,493
17 Samuel 1,024
18 David 869
19 Louis 828
20 Joe 731
21 Charlie 730
22 Clarence 730
23 Richard 728
24 Andrew 644
25 Daniel 643
26 Ernest 615
27 Will 588
28 Jesse 569
29 Oscar 544
30 Lewis 517
31 Peter 496
32 Benjamin 490
33 Frederick 483
34 Willie 476
35 Alfred 469
36 Sam 457
37 Roy 440
38 Herbert 424
39 Jacob 404
40 Tom 399
41 Elmer 373
42 Carl 372
43 Lee 361
44 Howard 357
45 Martin 357
46 Michael 354
47 Bert 348
48 Herman 347
49 Jim 345
50 Francis 344

Top Girl Names

# Name Births
1 Mary 7,065
2 Anna 2,604
3 Emma 2,003
4 Elizabeth 1,939
5 Minnie 1,746
6 Margaret 1,578
7 Ida 1,472
8 Alice 1,414
9 Bertha 1,320
10 Sarah 1,288
11 Annie 1,258
12 Clara 1,226
13 Ella 1,156
14 Florence 1,063
15 Cora 1,045
16 Martha 1,040
17 Laura 1,012
18 Nellie 995
19 Grace 982
20 Carrie 949
21 Maude 859
22 Mabel 808
23 Bessie 796
24 Jennie 793
25 Gertrude 787
26 Julia 783
27 Hattie 769
28 Edith 768
29 Mattie 704
30 Rose 700
31 Catherine 688
32 Lillian 672
33 Ada 652
34 Lillie 647
35 Helen 636
36 Jessie 635
37 Louise 635
38 Ethel 633
39 Lula 621
40 Myrtle 615
41 Eva 614
42 Frances 605
43 Lena 603
44 Lucy 590
45 Edna 588
46 Maggie 582
47 Pearl 569
48 Daisy 564
49 Fannie 560
50 Josephine 544