1889
Top Baby Names of 1889
The most popular baby names in the United States
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Girl Names
Top 100 in 1889
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Mary 11,648 2
Anna 5,062 3
Elizabeth 3,058 4
Margaret 2,917 5
Emma 2,884 6
Minnie 2,624 7
Florence 2,465 8
Ethel 2,463 9
Bessie 2,343 10
Clara 2,319 11
Bertha 2,293 12
Alice 2,145 13
Annie 2,123 14
Ida 2,122 15
Grace 2,049 16
Mabel 1,947 17
Helen 1,909 18
Edna 1,815 19
Nellie 1,752 20
Sarah 1,730 21
Martha 1,711 22
Ella 1,647 23
Lillian 1,640 24
Pearl 1,588 25
Laura 1,567 26
Rose 1,550 27
Carrie 1,547 28
Gertrude 1,543 29
Edith 1,523 30
Marie 1,436 31
Eva 1,372 32
Cora 1,365 33
Myrtle 1,361 34
Frances 1,351 35
Hattie 1,328 36
Maude 1,293 37
Lillie 1,289 38
Louise 1,283 39
Jennie 1,252 40
Julia 1,201 41
Elsie 1,199 42
Catherine 1,198 43
Jessie 1,196 44
Mattie 1,173 45
Lena 1,096 46
Ruth 1,073 47
Lula 1,067 48
Hazel 1,056 49
Josephine 1,047 50
Agnes 1,033 51
Ada 1,005 52
Blanche 972 53
Fannie 909 54
Lucy 893 55
Stella 891 56
Katherine 889 57
Mamie 883 57
Mae 883 59
Dora 882 60
Nora 831 61
Maggie 825 62
Alma 819 63
Irene 737 64
May 723 65
Effie 711 66
Rosa 707 67
Sadie 664 68
Ellen 653 69
Mildred 625 70
Nettie 622 71
Susie 607 72
Della 606 73
Daisy 583 74
Lizzie 570 75
Esther 553 76
Viola 536 77
Sallie 525 78
Ruby 522 79
Flora 516 80
Katie 502 81
Lottie 498 81
Beulah 498 83
Lydia 496 84
Caroline 491 85
Willie 488 86
Nancy 470 87
Etta 465 88
Olive 464 89
Charlotte 455 90
Addie 448 91
Georgia 445 92
Maud 432 93
Emily 429 94
Kathryn 415 94
Pauline 415 96
Gladys 414 97
Amanda 413 98
Mollie 402 99
Harriet 397 100
Nannie 396 👦
Boy Names
Top 100 in 1889
1
John 8,548 2
William 7,772 3
James 5,020 4
George 4,430 5
Charles 4,199 6
Frank 2,975 7
Joseph 2,729 8
Harry 2,559 9
Robert 2,513 10
Edward 2,299 11
Henry 2,286 12
Thomas 2,233 13
Walter 1,916 14
Arthur 1,668 15
Fred 1,554 16
Albert 1,353 17
Clarence 984 18
Roy 888 19
Louis 837 20
Samuel 810 21
Benjamin 760 22
David 757 23
Ernest 736 24
Richard 711 25
Joe 709 26
Willie 708 27
Carl 704 28
Earl 688 29
Charlie 685 30
Will 631 31
Jesse 576 32
Oscar 572 33
Andrew 561 34
Elmer 557 35
Paul 555 36
Daniel 515 37
Raymond 511 38
Howard 503 39
Ralph 495 40
Sam 486 41
Alfred 472 41
Herbert 472 43
Ben 453 44
Frederick 451 45
Peter 425 46
Lee 415 47
Lewis 414 48
Herman 405 49
Claude 386 50
Tom 379 51
Michael 377 52
Eugene 369 53
Martin 367 54
Ray 355 55
Francis 346 56
Lawrence 342 57
Harold 340 58
Jim 328 59
Leo 325 60
Edgar 322 60
Jack 322 62
Clyde 318 63
Floyd 313 64
Harvey 311 65
Otto 309 66
Edwin 306 67
Jacob 295 68
Harrison 288 69
Chester 274 70
Guy 271 71
Ed 270 71
Luther 270 73
Homer 255 74
Patrick 236 75
Bert 231 75
Theodore 231 77
Leonard 229 78
Hugh 225 79
Allen 222 80
Anthony 219 81
Bernard 215 82
Lester 213 83
Oliver 210 83
Grover 210 85
Ira 207 85
Jessie 207 87
Clifford 202 88
Charley 199 89
Russell 198 90
Archie 195 91
Isaac 188 92
Leroy 186 93
Alexander 185 94
Leon 184 95
Philip 183 96
August 171 96
Milton 171 98
Warren 167 98
Lloyd 167 100
Horace 166 About 1889 Baby Name Rankings
These rankings show the most popular baby names in the United States for 1889, 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.