Baby name rankings

Top 100 baby boy names in the United States in 1898

See the most popular baby boy names, how many were recorded, and how each rank changed from 1897.

Top 100

Rank	Name	Recorded count	Change from 1897
1	John	8,159	0
2	William	7,400	0
3	James	5,321	0
4	George	4,853	0
5	Charles	3,557	0
6	Joseph	3,171	0
7	Robert	2,932	+1
8	Frank	2,925	-1
9	Edward	2,337	0
10	Thomas	2,161	+1
11	Henry	2,145	-1
12	Harry	2,129	+1
13	Walter	2,002	-1
14	Arthur	1,619	0
15	Fred	1,447	+1
16	Albert	1,417	-1
17	Clarence	1,326	0
18	Willie	1,134	0
19	Dewey	1,115	+92
20	Roy	1,049	-1
21	Paul	991	-1
22	Harold	963	-1
23	Raymond	929	-1
24	Carl	919	+1
25	Earl	883	-1
26	Richard	871	+5
27	Louis	861	-4
28	Ernest	839	-1
29	Joe	827	-3
30	David	815	-1
31	Ralph	803	+1
32	Samuel	749	-4
33	Charlie	728	-3
34	Herbert	716	+1
35	Howard	706	-2
36	Alfred	645	+4
37	Jack	633	+5
38	Andrew	611	-2
39	Leo	588	+7
40	Elmer	583	-6
41	Oscar	546	-4
42	Sam	543	+3
43	Francis	541	0
44	Lawrence	533	-3
45	Daniel	523	-6
46	Lee	498	+1
47	Jesse	476	-9
48	Will	475	-4
49	Eugene	473	0
50	Herman	467	0
51	Floyd	434	-3
51	Michael	434	+6
53	Leonard	421	+8
54	Peter	409	-3
55	Benjamin	405	-1
56	Ray	394	-5
57	Edwin	391	-4
58	Clyde	383	0
59	Claude	371	0
60	Frederick	368	-4
61	Russell	359	+3
62	Lewis	352	-8
63	Martin	339	-3
64	Tom	337	-1
65	Anthony	325	+11
66	Chester	321	+1
67	Clifford	317	+1
68	Leroy	315	-3
69	Ben	310	-4
70	Lester	298	-9
71	Stanley	295	+6
72	Edgar	285	-3
73	Bernard	284	+5
73	Harvey	284	-1
75	Theodore	281	+10
76	Luther	275	-5
77	Jim	269	-2
78	Jessie	267	0
79	Lloyd	265	-5
80	Otto	259	-2
81	Eddie	256	-8
81	Jacob	256	+7
83	Leon	251	-2
84	Hugh	250	+2
85	Homer	246	-16
86	Philip	244	+3
87	Cecil	243	-3
88	Donald	238	+4
89	Ed	228	+1
89	Leslie	228	-6
91	Milton	225	+15
92	Archie	222	+3
93	Patrick	219	-6
94	Guy	215	-2
95	Everett	212	+5
96	Norman	207	-5
97	Victor	205	-2
98	Ira	195	+1
98	Stephen	195	-4
100	Kenneth	191	+5