Name.Baby Names by year 1880s 1881 Most Popular Baby Names of 1881 Social Security has card records for 207,134 people born in the U.S. in 1881. Mary was the top girl name (6,919 babies) and John the top boy name (8,768).
Top 100 names of 1881 Jump to the boys’ top 100 ↓
Girls 1–50 Top 100 girl names in the U.S., 1881, ranks 1–50 # Name Babies 2025 rank 1 Mary 6,919 #125 2 Anna 2,698 #107 3 Emma 2,034 #3 4 Elizabeth 1,852 #17 5 Margaret 1,658 #112 6 Minnie 1,653 #3,028 7 Ida 1,439 #1,120 8 Annie 1,326 #182 9 Bertha 1,324 #4,546 10 Alice 1,308 #65 11 Clara 1,242 #63 12 Sarah 1,226 #90 13 Ella 1,148 #29 14 Nellie 1,096 #533 15 Grace 1,089 #38 16 Florence 1,046 #391 17 Martha 1,044 #712 18 Cora 969 #113 19 Laura 962 #379 20 Carrie 958 #2,719 21 Maude 923 #3,342 22 Bessie 903 #6,838 23 Mabel 893 #201 24 Gertrude 791 #6,546 25 Ethel 788 #4,172 26 Jennie 784 #2,298 27 Edith 778 #499 28 Hattie 775 #334 29 Mattie 754 #1,004 30 Julia 737 #131 31 Rose 734 #114 32 Lillian 723 #57 33 Lillie 678 #675 34 Eva 661 #134 34 Jessie 661 #823 36 Lula 655 #1,927 37 Myrtle 643 #10,917 38 Pearl 641 #776 39 Edna 637 #2,458 40 Catherine 635 #313 41 Ada 628 #219 42 Louise 617 #514 43 Helen 612 #461 44 Lucy 611 #24 45 Frances 586 #318 46 Dora 585 #2,387 47 Fannie 565 #3,342 48 Josephine 563 #53 49 Daisy 562 #75 50 Lena 555 #279
Girls 51–100 Top 100 girl names in the U.S., 1881, ranks 51–100 # Name Babies 2025 rank 51 Maggie 532 #294 52 Katherine 504 #186 53 Rosa 500 #652 54 Marie 499 #617 55 Nora 498 #20 56 Effie 463 #2,239 57 Blanche 456 #6,838 58 May 451 #1,229 59 Nancy 429 #965 60 Della 428 #563 61 Agnes 424 #1,016 62 Nettie 419 #5,554 63 Sallie 416 #4,265 63 Stella 416 #52 65 Ellen 413 #1,062 66 Mamie 412 #6,116 67 Lizzie 396 #2,139 68 Susie 367 #1,911 69 Sadie 366 #50 70 Elsie 344 #123 71 Maud 328 – 72 Flora 317 #607 73 Caroline 316 #96 73 Etta 316 #928 75 Mae 314 #500 76 Lulu 313 #3,167 77 Lydia 299 #92 78 Alma 293 #449 79 Susan 292 #1,085 80 Lottie 289 #527 81 Addie 287 #1,272 82 Mollie 281 #1,113 83 Katie 279 #646 84 Ruth 275 #173 85 Harriet 270 #1,071 86 Kate 267 #520 87 Amanda 263 #493 88 Nannie 258 – 89 Georgia 256 #99 90 Emily 244 #34 91 Eliza 238 #115 92 Viola 237 #1,013 93 Amelia 235 #4 94 Willie 229 #10,107 95 Charlotte 227 #2 96 Rebecca 226 #349 97 Belle 219 #1,013 98 Kathryn 218 #729 99 Jane 216 #221 100 Olive 211 #197
Boys 1–50 Top 100 boy names in the U.S., 1881, ranks 1–50 # Name Babies 2025 rank 1 John 8,768 #23 2 William 8,524 #9 3 James 5,441 #6 4 George 4,664 #126 5 Charles 4,636 #48 6 Frank 2,834 #513 7 Joseph 2,456 #29 8 Henry 2,339 #5 9 Thomas 2,282 #34 10 Edward 2,177 #224 11 Robert 2,140 #92 12 Harry 2,002 #775 13 Walter 1,670 #251 14 Arthur 1,575 #87 15 Fred 1,418 #1,932 16 Albert 1,319 #614 17 Samuel 919 #18 18 David 750 #35 19 Louis 746 #249 20 Charlie 668 #145 20 Clarence 668 #1,499 22 Richard 641 #234 23 Joe 639 #991 24 Andrew 588 #73 25 Ernest 571 #1,038 26 Will 550 #1,193 27 Jesse 536 #184 28 Oscar 530 #223 29 Daniel 527 #22 30 Willie 498 #1,315 31 Benjamin 481 #11 31 Sam 481 #647 33 Alfred 466 #840 34 Roy 440 #525 35 Lewis 439 #433 36 Frederick 433 #435 37 Peter 428 #187 38 Elmer 388 #1,222 39 Jacob 381 #43 40 Herbert 369 #2,641 41 Carl 359 #1,132 41 Howard 359 #1,002 43 Tom 349 #2,183 44 Lee 342 #725 45 Ralph 329 #1,046 46 Martin 327 #335 47 Jim 323 #3,128 48 Earl 314 #2,230 48 Eugene 314 #943 50 Bert 312 #10,695 50 Edgar 312 #486
Boys 51–100 Top 100 boy names in the U.S., 1881, ranks 51–100 # Name Babies 2025 rank 52 Herman 304 #2,363 53 Claude 302 #3,036 54 Michael 298 #21 55 Paul 291 #262 56 Ben 289 #843 57 Ira 286 #819 58 Harvey 282 #251 59 Chester 274 #1,585 59 Edwin 274 #398 61 Ed 272 – 62 Charley 266 #1,826 63 Francis 259 #420 64 Isaac 258 #47 65 Luther 249 #1,459 66 Lawrence 244 #518 67 Oliver 238 #3 68 Clyde 232 #742 69 Otto 221 #277 70 Hugh 219 #732 71 Alexander 209 #30 72 Leonard 206 #637 73 Jack 197 #15 74 Raymond 195 #394 75 Patrick 188 #235 76 Guy 186 #1,634 77 Homer 181 #4,707 78 Floyd 178 #2,230 78 Theodore 178 #4 80 Allen 172 #578 80 August 172 #81 82 Marion 162 #2,480 83 Philip 156 #527 83 Warren 156 #240 85 Horace 152 #6,143 86 Dan 148 #1,959 86 Ray 148 #791 88 Garfield 147 #12,008 88 Stephen 147 #383 90 Emil 145 #1,267 91 Jessie 143 #1,425 91 Milton 143 #1,436 93 Willis 142 #2,539 94 Calvin 138 #132 95 Dave 135 #2,451 96 Bernard 130 #1,362 97 Julius 129 #424 97 Leroy 129 #883 97 Sidney 129 #1,323 100 Anthony 128 #46
Entered the top 100 in 1881
