Baby name rankings

Top 100 baby boy names in the United States in 1881

See the most popular baby boy names, how many were recorded, and how each rank changed from 1880.

Top 100

Rank	Name	Recorded count	Change from 1880
1	John	8,768	0
2	William	8,524	0
3	James	5,441	0
4	George	4,664	+1
5	Charles	4,636	-1
6	Frank	2,834	0
7	Joseph	2,456	0
8	Henry	2,339	+1
9	Thomas	2,282	-1
10	Edward	2,177	+1
11	Robert	2,140	-1
12	Harry	2,002	0
13	Walter	1,670	0
14	Arthur	1,575	0
15	Fred	1,418	0
16	Albert	1,319	0
17	Samuel	919	0
18	David	750	0
19	Louis	746	0
20	Charlie	668	+1
20	Clarence	668	+1
22	Richard	641	+1
23	Joe	639	-3
24	Andrew	588	0
25	Ernest	571	+1
26	Will	550	+1
27	Jesse	536	+1
28	Oscar	530	+1
29	Daniel	527	-4
30	Willie	498	+4
31	Benjamin	481	+1
31	Sam	481	+5
33	Alfred	466	+2
34	Roy	440	+3
35	Lewis	439	-5
36	Frederick	433	-3
37	Peter	428	-6
38	Elmer	388	+3
39	Jacob	381	0
40	Herbert	369	-2
41	Carl	359	+1
41	Howard	359	+3
43	Tom	349	-3
44	Lee	342	-1
45	Ralph	329	+9
46	Martin	327	-2
47	Jim	323	+2
48	Earl	314	+4
48	Eugene	314	+5
50	Bert	312	-3
50	Edgar	312	+11
52	Herman	304	-4
53	Claude	302	+3
54	Michael	298	-8
55	Paul	291	+5
56	Ben	289	+2
57	Ira	286	+9
58	Harvey	282	-8
59	Chester	274	+26
59	Edwin	274	-3
61	Ed	272	-6
62	Charley	266	-4
63	Francis	259	-13
64	Isaac	258	-2
65	Luther	249	-1
66	Lawrence	244	-1
67	Oliver	238	+2
68	Clyde	232	+4
69	Otto	221	-6
70	Hugh	219	+1
71	Alexander	209	+2
72	Leonard	206	+6
73	Jack	197	+4
74	Raymond	195	+13
75	Patrick	188	-8
76	Guy	186	-8
77	Homer	181	-1
78	Floyd	178	-3
78	Theodore	178	-8
80	Allen	172	+2
80	August	172	-6
82	Marion	162	-2
83	Philip	156	-2
83	Warren	156	+6
85	Horace	152	-6
86	Dan	148	+11
86	Ray	148	+9
88	Garfield	147	+22
88	Stephen	147	-4
90	Emil	145	+23
91	Jessie	143	-1
91	Milton	143	0
93	Willis	142	-7
94	Calvin	138	+6
95	Dave	135	+7
96	Bernard	130	+1
97	Julius	129	-3
97	Leroy	129	+11
97	Sidney	129	-2
100	Anthony	128	+3