Baby name rankings

Top 100 baby boy names in the United States in 1886

See the most popular baby boy names, how many were recorded, and how each rank changed from 1885.

Top 100

Rank	Name	Recorded count	Change from 1885
1	John	9,026	0
2	William	8,252	0
3	James	5,355	0
4	George	4,671	0
5	Charles	4,533	0
6	Frank	3,127	0
7	Joseph	2,594	0
8	Robert	2,443	+1
9	Henry	2,404	-1
10	Thomas	2,337	0
11	Edward	2,312	0
12	Harry	2,257	0
13	Walter	1,880	0
14	Arthur	1,656	+1
15	Fred	1,599	-1
16	Albert	1,488	0
17	Clarence	995	0
18	Samuel	870	0
19	Louis	846	0
20	Roy	767	+4
21	Joe	759	+4
22	Charlie	723	+1
23	Richard	720	+3
24	David	674	-2
25	Ernest	668	-4
26	Oscar	645	+2
27	Will	642	0
28	Willie	641	+1
29	Andrew	614	+1
29	Jesse	614	+2
31	Earl	570	+5
32	Carl	556	+2
33	Daniel	555	-1
34	Sam	519	+1
35	Elmer	485	+5
36	Alfred	480	+3
37	Howard	467	+4
38	Paul	466	+5
39	Benjamin	463	-1
40	Frederick	461	-3
41	Ralph	440	+3
42	Peter	437	-9
43	Lewis	431	-1
44	Herman	418	+11
45	Grover	407	-25
46	Herbert	400	-1
47	Lee	399	+3
48	Claude	391	+4
49	Jim	389	-3
50	Tom	383	-2
51	Eugene	362	0
52	Raymond	353	+6
53	Michael	348	-7
54	Jacob	346	-2
55	Francis	344	+1
56	Ben	335	+6
57	Lawrence	331	+7
58	Martin	329	-9
59	Edwin	313	+4
60	Harvey	310	-1
61	Edgar	309	-1
62	Clyde	307	-5
63	Ed	303	-9
64	Jack	299	-3
65	Chester	287	+2
66	Floyd	275	+4
67	Ray	271	+7
68	Otto	270	+1
69	Theodore	258	+14
70	Guy	255	-2
71	Luther	253	-1
72	Patrick	249	+5
73	Leo	240	+10
74	Leonard	236	+5
75	Oliver	230	-3
76	Bert	228	-10
77	Hugh	227	-4
78	Harold	224	+4
78	Homer	224	-2
78	Isaac	224	+1
81	Charley	214	-16
82	Allen	211	+5
83	Alexander	206	-5
84	August	203	+2
85	Ira	198	-10
86	Eddie	197	+15
87	Philip	187	+2
88	Marion	182	+13
89	Jessie	181	-8
89	Stephen	181	+4
91	Bernard	180	0
92	Archie	175	-7
93	Anthony	174	+2
94	Julius	173	+3
95	Clifford	172	+9
96	Alex	161	-4
96	Norman	161	+20
98	Lester	160	+3
99	Horace	156	-5
100	Leroy	155	-10
100	Sidney	155	-12