Baby name rankings

Top 100 baby boy names in the United States in 1897

See the most popular baby boy names, how many were recorded, and how each rank changed from 1896.

Top 100

Rank	Name	Recorded count	Change from 1896
1	John	7,550	0
2	William	7,198	0
3	James	5,113	0
4	George	4,078	0
5	Charles	3,341	0
6	Joseph	2,827	0
7	Frank	2,726	0
8	Robert	2,701	0
9	Edward	2,121	0
10	Henry	1,994	0
11	Thomas	1,980	+1
12	Walter	1,895	+1
13	Harry	1,879	-2
14	Arthur	1,647	0
15	Albert	1,377	0
16	Fred	1,301	0
17	Clarence	1,201	0
18	Willie	1,151	0
19	Roy	999	0
20	Paul	923	0
21	Harold	860	+2
22	Raymond	837	+2
23	Louis	831	-1
24	Earl	829	-3
25	Carl	828	0
26	Joe	798	+1
27	Ernest	785	+2
28	Samuel	759	+3
29	David	730	-1
30	Charlie	714	+2
31	Richard	702	-5
32	Ralph	697	-2
33	Howard	634	0
34	Elmer	587	+2
35	Herbert	565	-1
36	Andrew	555	+1
37	Oscar	543	+3
38	Jesse	529	-3
39	Daniel	520	-1
40	Alfred	513	+2
41	Lawrence	505	+5
42	Jack	497	-2
43	Francis	496	-4
44	Will	491	0
45	Sam	478	-2
46	Leo	462	+1
47	Lee	453	+1
48	Floyd	451	+7
49	Eugene	447	-4
50	Herman	412	-1
51	Peter	397	+1
51	Ray	397	-1
53	Edwin	380	+6
54	Benjamin	378	-3
54	Lewis	378	+2
56	Frederick	369	+1
57	Michael	368	-4
58	Clyde	359	0
59	Claude	345	-5
60	Martin	312	+1
61	Leonard	310	-1
61	Lester	310	+4
63	Tom	298	-1
64	Russell	295	0
65	Ben	291	+4
65	Leroy	291	+7
67	Chester	290	-4
68	Clifford	285	-2
69	Edgar	278	-1
69	Homer	278	+10
71	Luther	271	+3
72	Harvey	268	-2
73	Eddie	263	+3
74	Lloyd	258	-7
75	Jim	252	-4
76	Anthony	249	-3
77	Stanley	240	+1
78	Bernard	234	+4
78	Jessie	234	+11
78	Otto	234	+2
81	Leon	229	+5
82	Allen	226	+9
83	Leslie	222	+2
84	Cecil	216	+13
85	Theodore	215	-3
86	Hugh	213	-11
87	Patrick	210	+6
88	Jacob	204	-6
89	Philip	200	+3
90	Ed	198	-9
91	Norman	197	+13
92	Donald	195	+2
92	Guy	195	-16
94	Stephen	194	+19
95	Archie	190	-7
95	Victor	190	+1
97	Alvin	186	+5
98	Percy	183	+18
99	Ira	180	+2
100	Everett	179	-10