Baby name rankings

Top 100 baby boy names in the United States in 1891

See the most popular baby boy names, how many were recorded, and how each rank changed from 1890.

Top 100

Rank	Name	Recorded count	Change from 1890
1	John	7,680	0
2	William	6,763	0
3	James	4,516	0
4	George	3,931	0
5	Charles	3,640	0
6	Frank	2,652	0
7	Joseph	2,572	0
8	Robert	2,240	0
9	Harry	2,132	+1
10	Henry	2,049	-1
11	Edward	1,989	0
12	Thomas	1,982	0
13	Walter	1,668	0
14	Arthur	1,514	0
15	Fred	1,362	0
16	Albert	1,207	0
17	Clarence	1,007	0
18	Roy	838	0
19	Louis	786	0
20	Samuel	753	0
21	Willie	739	+2
22	Ernest	715	0
23	Charlie	707	-2
24	Carl	675	+3
25	Earl	674	-1
26	David	673	0
27	Richard	609	-2
28	Ralph	587	+4
29	Joe	584	-1
30	Raymond	575	+6
31	Paul	564	0
32	Oscar	551	-3
33	Andrew	521	+1
34	Will	520	-4
35	Jesse	519	-2
36	Elmer	508	+2
37	Daniel	505	+2
38	Herbert	501	+4
39	Alfred	499	-4
40	Howard	485	0
41	Benjamin	461	-4
42	Harold	419	+4
43	Sam	418	-2
44	Frederick	412	-1
45	Peter	396	-2
46	Lawrence	389	+6
47	Herman	383	+3
48	Eugene	362	-2
49	Ray	360	+7
50	Lewis	357	+1
51	Leo	353	-2
52	Lee	342	-9
53	Floyd	336	+7
54	Francis	333	0
54	Michael	333	-6
56	Martin	331	+1
57	Claude	327	0
57	Clyde	327	+7
57	Edwin	327	+6
60	Tom	318	-3
61	Ben	302	-7
62	Jack	290	-9
63	Jim	288	-1
64	Edgar	277	-3
65	Harvey	274	0
65	Otto	274	+3
67	Guy	262	+5
68	Chester	252	+1
69	Jacob	238	-3
70	Ed	237	0
71	Luther	236	0
72	Leonard	235	-5
73	Hugh	233	+7
74	Homer	230	+3
75	Jessie	227	-2
76	Theodore	224	+13
77	Oliver	212	+4
77	Patrick	212	-2
79	Archie	201	0
80	Philip	198	+8
81	Clifford	196	+2
82	Charley	193	+11
83	Lester	191	-7
84	Leroy	190	-10
85	Bernard	187	+13
86	August	186	-2
86	Russell	186	+8
88	Lloyd	185	+6
89	Bert	181	+8
90	Eddie	179	-4
90	Ira	179	-8
92	Stanley	178	-15
93	Everett	174	+9
94	Allen	173	-4
95	Alexander	172	-10
96	Anthony	170	-6
97	Horace	165	+6
98	Leslie	164	-2
99	Grover	163	0
99	Norman	163	+8