Baby name rankings

Top 100 baby boy names in the United States in 1884

See the most popular baby boy names, how many were recorded, and how each rank changed from 1883.

Top 100

Rank	Name	Recorded count	Change from 1883
1	John	9,388	0
2	William	8,897	0
3	James	5,693	0
4	George	4,961	+1
5	Charles	4,802	-1
6	Frank	3,218	0
7	Joseph	2,707	0
8	Thomas	2,572	+2
9	Henry	2,474	-1
10	Robert	2,468	-1
11	Edward	2,439	0
12	Harry	2,323	0
13	Walter	1,902	0
14	Arthur	1,690	0
15	Fred	1,638	0
16	Albert	1,435	0
17	Samuel	945	0
18	Clarence	889	0
19	Louis	886	0
20	Grover	802	+84
21	David	761	-1
22	Joe	759	+4
23	Richard	749	-2
24	Charlie	746	-2
25	Ernest	690	-2
26	Roy	680	+4
27	Jesse	670	+1
28	Will	650	+1
29	Andrew	616	-5
30	Oscar	615	-4
31	Willie	578	+3
32	Daniel	573	-7
33	Sam	533	0
34	Peter	524	+2
35	Elmer	523	+5
36	Carl	521	-4
37	Alfred	520	-2
38	Benjamin	509	-7
39	Lewis	476	-1
40	Earl	464	+2
40	Ralph	464	+5
42	Frederick	454	-5
43	Lee	435	0
44	Howard	432	-5
45	Paul	422	+3
46	Herbert	421	-5
47	Tom	394	-3
48	Herman	385	-1
48	Martin	385	-2
50	Jacob	381	-1
51	Michael	373	+4
52	Ben	367	+4
53	Harvey	358	0
54	Claude	353	0
55	Jim	346	-3
56	Clyde	345	-6
57	Francis	340	+3
58	Chester	338	+1
59	Eugene	321	-8
60	Ed	314	+4
61	Edwin	308	-4
62	Raymond	299	+6
63	Charley	290	0
63	Edgar	290	-5
65	Otto	288	+1
66	Ira	284	+1
67	Bert	280	-5
68	Jack	274	-3
69	Luther	273	0
70	Floyd	263	+3
71	Lawrence	262	-10
72	Guy	260	-1
73	Hugh	246	+1
74	Oliver	245	-2
75	Isaac	243	-5
76	Alexander	236	+4
77	Ray	232	+1
78	Patrick	222	-3
79	Homer	216	-3
80	August	213	-3
81	Theodore	211	0
82	Archie	206	+2
82	Leonard	206	-3
84	Leo	192	+11
85	Harold	191	+32
86	Marion	184	+1
87	Allen	182	-5
88	Anthony	179	+4
88	Eddie	179	+17
90	Jessie	177	-1
91	Emil	175	+8
92	Cleveland	174	+187
93	Stephen	165	+4
94	Warren	164	-3
95	Julius	162	-7
96	Philip	161	-12
97	Dave	159	+4
98	Horace	154	-15
98	Leroy	154	-6
100	Dan	151	+8
100	Willis	151	+3