1887
Top Baby Names of 1887
The most popular baby names in the United States
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Girl Names
Top 100 in 1887
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Mary 9,888 2
Anna 4,227 3
Elizabeth 2,681 4
Emma 2,647 5
Margaret 2,419 6
Minnie 2,215 7
Bertha 2,037 8
Clara 1,984 9
Florence 1,964 10
Ida 1,929 11
Ethel 1,907 12
Annie 1,844 13
Bessie 1,838 14
Alice 1,819 15
Grace 1,692 16
Ella 1,521 17
Martha 1,504 18
Mabel 1,494 19
Nellie 1,457 20
Sarah 1,436 21
Helen 1,405 22
Laura 1,364 23
Carrie 1,344 24
Edna 1,339 25
Pearl 1,316 26
Lillian 1,308 27
Cora 1,257 28
Gertrude 1,251 29
Edith 1,243 30
Rose 1,242 31
Maude 1,162 32
Hattie 1,135 33
Eva 1,125 34
Frances 1,105 35
Louise 1,088 36
Myrtle 1,087 37
Lillie 1,072 38
Jennie 1,047 39
Julia 1,043 40
Mattie 1,031 41
Jessie 1,012 42
Lena 1,004 43
Marie 994 44
Catherine 967 45
Ada 910 46
Agnes 896 47
Lula 891 48
Dora 842 49
Elsie 833 50
Josephine 815 51
Lucy 811 52
Fannie 798 53
Katherine 794 54
Blanche 763 55
Maggie 740 56
Nora 735 57
Mamie 716 58
Mae 680 59
Stella 664 60
Rosa 659 61
May 648 62
Ruth 627 63
Alma 623 64
Effie 615 65
Nettie 595 66
Ellen 579 67
Daisy 532 68
Sallie 525 68
Lizzie 525 70
Sadie 519 71
Nancy 511 72
Irene 504 72
Hazel 504 74
Della 496 75
Susie 485 76
Lydia 448 77
Katie 440 78
Etta 437 79
Esther 431 80
Viola 420 81
Lottie 414 82
Flora 408 83
Maud 402 84
Caroline 398 85
Olive 394 86
Addie 393 87
Kathryn 384 88
Willie 379 89
Mildred 373 90
Beulah 355 91
Georgia 351 91
Charlotte 351 93
Amelia 344 94
Harriet 342 95
Nannie 340 96
Amanda 338 96
Ollie 338 98
Susan 335 98
Emily 335 100
Mollie 333 👦
Boy Names
Top 100 in 1887
1
John 8,110 2
William 7,470 3
James 4,768 4
George 4,284 5
Charles 4,031 6
Frank 2,883 7
Joseph 2,456 8
Henry 2,228 9
Thomas 2,151 10
Robert 2,125 10
Edward 2,125 12
Harry 2,057 13
Walter 1,704 14
Arthur 1,489 15
Fred 1,454 16
Albert 1,294 17
Clarence 892 18
Samuel 802 19
Louis 791 20
Roy 726 21
Joe 685 22
David 673 23
Ernest 653 24
Charlie 642 25
Richard 622 26
Jesse 601 27
Willie 590 28
Carl 588 29
Oscar 574 30
Will 561 31
Daniel 556 32
Earl 537 33
Andrew 520 34
Benjamin 473 35
Alfred 468 36
Elmer 467 37
Frederick 464 38
Sam 463 38
Ralph 463 40
Paul 449 41
Herbert 445 42
Howard 429 43
Peter 421 44
Lee 400 45
Herman 394 46
Claude 375 47
Raymond 372 48
Michael 344 49
Lewis 343 50
Jim 339 51
Martin 331 52
Tom 329 53
Francis 327 53
Eugene 327 55
Clyde 320 56
Jacob 317 57
Edwin 310 58
Ben 305 59
Grover 290 60
Lawrence 283 61
Harold 279 62
Ed 275 63
Luther 267 64
Edgar 266 65
Harvey 262 66
Ray 258 67
Otto 253 68
Jack 251 69
Hugh 250 70
Homer 248 71
Guy 238 72
Bert 237 73
Floyd 232 73
Leo 232 75
Charley 221 76
Patrick 218 77
Ira 215 78
Leonard 207 78
Chester 207 80
Oliver 203 81
Allen 202 82
Theodore 201 83
Isaac 194 83
August 194 85
Archie 184 86
Jessie 182 87
Alexander 180 88
Leroy 177 89
Lester 168 90
Leslie 166 91
Stephen 165 91
Clifford 165 93
Julius 164 94
Warren 163 95
Philip 161 96
Horace 160 97
Bernard 159 98
Anthony 153 99
Leon 147 100
Emil 146 About 1887 Baby Name Rankings
These rankings show the most popular baby names in the United States for 1887, 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.