1886
Top Baby Names of 1886
The most popular baby names in the United States
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Girl Names
Top 100 in 1886
1
Mary 9,889 2
Anna 4,283 3
Emma 2,764 4
Elizabeth 2,680 5
Minnie 2,372 6
Margaret 2,275 7
Ida 2,049 8
Bertha 2,001 9
Clara 1,916 10
Florence 1,860 11
Alice 1,811 12
Bessie 1,791 13
Annie 1,765 14
Grace 1,723 15
Ethel 1,699 16
Sarah 1,569 17
Nellie 1,492 18
Martha 1,491 19
Ella 1,464 20
Mabel 1,422 21
Carrie 1,396 22
Laura 1,372 23
Edna 1,314 24
Lillian 1,282 25
Helen 1,267 26
Rose 1,261 27
Gertrude 1,249 28
Cora 1,231 29
Pearl 1,204 30
Maude 1,189 31
Edith 1,184 32
Eva 1,155 33
Hattie 1,139 34
Jennie 1,100 35
Myrtle 1,094 36
Julia 1,061 36
Louise 1,061 38
Frances 1,059 39
Mattie 1,044 40
Lula 1,040 41
Jessie 1,003 42
Lillie 995 43
Lena 992 44
Marie 988 45
Catherine 916 46
Ada 915 47
Josephine 844 48
Fannie 837 49
Dora 827 50
Lucy 817 51
Blanche 787 52
Agnes 779 53
Maggie 756 54
Katherine 744 55
Mamie 712 56
Nora 708 57
Stella 702 58
Elsie 698 59
Rosa 673 60
Effie 672 61
Mae 641 62
Alma 603 63
Daisy 602 63
May 602 65
Nettie 591 66
Ruth 581 67
Della 565 68
Sadie 562 69
Susie 559 70
Ellen 551 71
Lizzie 512 72
Nancy 492 73
Sallie 490 74
Maud 478 75
Lottie 450 76
Flora 443 77
Viola 440 78
Irene 437 79
Etta 433 80
Katie 431 81
Hazel 429 82
Mollie 421 83
Addie 417 84
Olive 404 85
Esther 396 86
Georgia 395 87
Lydia 392 88
Willie 388 89
Kathryn 383 90
Lulu 376 91
Caroline 370 91
Amanda 370 93
Emily 369 94
Charlotte 368 95
Rebecca 355 96
Virginia 353 97
Nannie 347 98
Beulah 345 99
Harriet 341 100
Kate 335 👦
Boy Names
Top 100 in 1886
1
John 9,026 2
William 8,252 3
James 5,355 4
George 4,671 5
Charles 4,533 6
Frank 3,127 7
Joseph 2,594 8
Robert 2,443 9
Henry 2,404 10
Thomas 2,337 11
Edward 2,312 12
Harry 2,257 13
Walter 1,880 14
Arthur 1,656 15
Fred 1,599 16
Albert 1,488 17
Clarence 995 18
Samuel 870 19
Louis 846 20
Roy 767 21
Joe 759 22
Charlie 723 23
Richard 720 24
David 674 25
Ernest 668 26
Oscar 645 27
Will 642 28
Willie 641 29
Andrew 614 29
Jesse 614 31
Earl 570 32
Carl 556 33
Daniel 555 34
Sam 519 35
Elmer 485 36
Alfred 480 37
Howard 467 38
Paul 466 39
Benjamin 463 40
Frederick 461 41
Ralph 440 42
Peter 437 43
Lewis 431 44
Herman 418 45
Grover 407 46
Herbert 400 47
Lee 399 48
Claude 391 49
Jim 389 50
Tom 383 51
Eugene 362 52
Raymond 353 53
Michael 348 54
Jacob 346 55
Francis 344 56
Ben 335 57
Lawrence 331 58
Martin 329 59
Edwin 313 60
Harvey 310 61
Edgar 309 62
Clyde 307 63
Ed 303 64
Jack 299 65
Chester 287 66
Floyd 275 67
Ray 271 68
Otto 270 69
Theodore 258 70
Guy 255 71
Luther 253 72
Patrick 249 73
Leo 240 74
Leonard 236 75
Oliver 230 76
Bert 228 77
Hugh 227 78
Isaac 224 78
Homer 224 78
Harold 224 81
Charley 214 82
Allen 211 83
Alexander 206 84
August 203 85
Ira 198 86
Eddie 197 87
Philip 187 88
Marion 182 89
Stephen 181 89
Jessie 181 91
Bernard 180 92
Archie 175 93
Anthony 174 94
Julius 173 95
Clifford 172 96
Alex 161 96
Norman 161 98
Lester 160 99
Horace 156 100
Sidney 155 About 1886 Baby Name Rankings
These rankings show the most popular baby names in the United States for 1886, based on Social Security Administration data. The list includes all babies born in the U.S. whose names were registered with the SSA.
Names are ranked by the number of babies given each name during the year. Click on any name to see its complete history, including popularity trends over 147 years and regional data across all 50 states.