Name.Baby Names by year 1880s 1883 Most Popular Baby Names of 1883 Social Security has card records for 232,535 people born in the U.S. in 1883. Mary was the top girl name (8,012 babies) and John the top boy name (8,894).
Top 100 names of 1883 Jump to the boys’ top 100 ↓
Girls 1–50 Top 100 girl names in the U.S., 1883, ranks 1–50 # Name Babies 2025 rank 1 Mary 8,012 #125 2 Anna 3,306 #107 3 Emma 2,367 #3 4 Elizabeth 2,255 #17 5 Minnie 2,035 #3,028 6 Margaret 1,881 #112 7 Bertha 1,681 #4,546 8 Ida 1,634 #1,120 9 Annie 1,589 #182 10 Clara 1,548 #63 11 Alice 1,488 #65 12 Sarah 1,359 #90 13 Grace 1,307 #38 14 Florence 1,298 #391 15 Martha 1,255 #712 16 Ella 1,251 #29 17 Nellie 1,246 #533 18 Bessie 1,241 #6,838 19 Laura 1,183 #379 20 Ethel 1,132 #4,172 21 Carrie 1,108 #2,719 22 Maude 1,096 #3,342 23 Mabel 1,086 #201 24 Cora 1,081 #113 25 Gertrude 923 #6,546 26 Lillian 907 #57 27 Jennie 904 #2,298 28 Hattie 895 #334 29 Pearl 886 #776 30 Mattie 883 #1,004 31 Edith 881 #499 32 Eva 879 #134 33 Rose 877 #114 34 Julia 875 #131 35 Helen 862 #461 36 Catherine 853 #313 37 Myrtle 851 #10,917 38 Louise 847 #514 39 Lillie 837 #675 40 Jessie 834 #823 41 Edna 823 #2,458 42 Lena 800 #279 43 Lula 790 #1,927 44 Ada 778 #219 45 Frances 710 #318 46 Josephine 697 #53 47 Fannie 696 #3,342 48 Lucy 663 #24 48 Maggie 663 #294 50 Daisy 659 #75
Girls 51–100 Top 100 girl names in the U.S., 1883, ranks 51–100 # Name Babies 2025 rank 51 Dora 640 #2,387 52 Agnes 623 #1,016 53 Marie 622 #617 54 Blanche 610 #6,838 55 Nora 589 #20 56 Katherine 583 #186 57 May 532 #1,229 58 Mamie 531 #6,116 59 Stella 529 #52 60 Effie 507 #2,239 60 Rosa 507 #652 62 Ellen 500 #1,062 63 Lizzie 496 #2,139 64 Nettie 494 #5,554 65 Elsie 479 #123 66 Della 453 #563 67 Susie 436 #1,911 68 Maud 425 – 68 Sadie 425 #50 70 Mae 423 #500 71 Nancy 412 #965 72 Sallie 409 #4,265 73 Flora 387 #607 73 Ruth 387 #173 75 Lydia 378 #92 76 Lottie 372 #527 77 Addie 362 #1,272 78 Katie 361 #646 79 Alma 359 #449 80 Etta 352 #928 81 Emily 342 #34 82 Harriet 341 #1,071 83 Viola 331 #1,013 84 Georgia 325 #99 85 Susan 322 #1,085 86 Caroline 321 #96 87 Nannie 305 – 88 Lulu 302 #3,167 89 Mollie 301 #1,113 90 Kate 294 #520 90 Olive 294 #197 92 Charlotte 291 #2 93 Kathryn 290 #729 94 Amanda 287 #493 95 Eliza 274 #115 96 Willie 264 #10,107 97 Amelia 262 #4 97 Belle 262 #1,013 99 Esther 260 #119 99 Irene 260 #651
Boys 1–50 Top 100 boy names in the U.S., 1883, ranks 1–50 # Name Babies 2025 rank 1 John 8,894 #23 2 William 8,387 #9 3 James 5,223 #6 4 Charles 4,826 #48 5 George 4,736 #126 6 Frank 2,986 #513 7 Joseph 2,515 #29 8 Henry 2,383 #5 9 Robert 2,334 #92 10 Thomas 2,316 #34 11 Edward 2,250 #224 12 Harry 2,110 #775 13 Walter 1,705 #251 14 Arthur 1,591 #87 15 Fred 1,502 #1,932 16 Albert 1,496 #614 17 Samuel 937 #18 18 Clarence 837 #1,499 19 Louis 796 #249 20 David 734 #35 21 Richard 649 #234 22 Charlie 643 #145 23 Ernest 641 #1,038 24 Andrew 623 #73 25 Daniel 615 #22 26 Joe 607 #991 26 Oscar 607 #223 28 Jesse 584 #184 29 Will 576 #1,193 30 Roy 556 #525 31 Benjamin 508 #11 32 Carl 480 #1,132 33 Sam 476 #647 34 Willie 474 #1,315 35 Alfred 457 #840 36 Peter 450 #187 37 Frederick 438 #435 38 Lewis 431 #433 39 Howard 429 #1,002 40 Elmer 423 #1,222 41 Herbert 422 #2,641 42 Earl 389 #2,230 43 Lee 388 #725 44 Tom 386 #2,183 45 Ralph 385 #1,046 46 Martin 377 #335 47 Herman 359 #2,363 48 Paul 358 #262 49 Jacob 356 #43 50 Clyde 336 #742
Boys 51–100 Top 100 boy names in the U.S., 1883, ranks 51–100 # Name Babies 2025 rank 51 Eugene 325 #943 52 Jim 322 #3,128 53 Harvey 318 #251 54 Claude 315 #3,036 55 Michael 307 #21 56 Ben 306 #843 57 Edwin 299 #398 58 Edgar 292 #486 59 Chester 290 #1,585 60 Francis 285 #420 61 Lawrence 282 #518 62 Bert 273 #10,695 63 Charley 254 #1,826 64 Ed 247 – 65 Jack 242 #15 66 Otto 240 #277 67 Ira 239 #819 68 Raymond 233 #394 69 Luther 229 #1,459 70 Isaac 227 #47 71 Guy 224 #1,634 72 Oliver 219 #3 73 Floyd 217 #2,230 74 Hugh 215 #732 75 Patrick 213 #235 76 Homer 210 #4,707 77 August 209 #81 78 Ray 202 #791 79 Leonard 200 #637 80 Alexander 187 #30 81 Theodore 185 #4 82 Allen 175 #578 83 Horace 167 #6,143 84 Archie 166 #301 84 Philip 166 #527 86 Sidney 165 #1,323 87 Marion 163 #2,480 88 Julius 160 #424 89 Jessie 151 #1,425 90 Milton 149 #1,436 91 Warren 146 #240 92 Anthony 143 #46 92 Everett 143 #77 92 Leroy 143 #883 95 Leo 142 #19 96 Bernard 141 #1,362 97 Leon 140 #138 97 Stephen 140 #383 99 Emil 139 #1,267 100 Clifford 138 #1,352
Entered the top 100 in 1883
