Baby name rankings

Top 100 baby boy names in the United States in 1899

See the most popular baby boy names, how many were recorded, and how each rank changed from 1898.

Top 100

Rank	Name	Recorded count	Change from 1898
1	John	6,990	0
2	William	6,086	0
3	James	4,597	0
4	George	4,018	0
5	Charles	3,147	0
6	Joseph	2,679	0
7	Robert	2,609	0
8	Frank	2,550	0
9	Edward	1,901	0
10	Henry	1,831	+1
11	Thomas	1,811	-1
12	Walter	1,750	+1
13	Harry	1,732	-1
14	Arthur	1,357	0
15	Albert	1,210	+1
16	Fred	1,182	-1
17	Clarence	1,139	0
18	Willie	1,088	0
19	Harold	914	+3
20	Roy	912	0
21	Paul	885	0
22	Raymond	869	+1
23	Earl	821	+2
24	Joe	780	+5
25	Carl	774	-1
26	Louis	770	+1
27	Ernest	744	+1
27	Richard	744	-1
29	Ralph	742	+2
30	Samuel	704	+2
31	Charlie	678	+2
32	David	646	-2
33	Herbert	590	+1
34	Howard	589	+1
35	Jack	582	+2
36	Andrew	578	+2
37	Elmer	514	+3
38	Francis	501	+5
39	Dewey	499	-20
40	Lawrence	497	+4
41	Alfred	496	-5
42	Daniel	485	+3
43	Leo	482	-4
44	Sam	469	-2
45	Eugene	449	+4
46	Oscar	447	-5
47	Jesse	423	0
48	Will	414	0
49	Herman	413	+1
50	Lee	388	-4
51	Michael	375	0
52	Floyd	356	-1
53	Peter	354	+1
54	Lewis	352	+8
55	Frederick	350	+5
56	Russell	338	+5
57	Benjamin	335	-2
58	Clyde	330	0
59	Edwin	329	-2
60	Leonard	321	-7
61	Ray	315	-5
62	Clifford	297	+5
63	Claude	293	-4
64	Anthony	291	+1
65	Lester	290	+5
66	Chester	288	0
66	Tom	288	-2
68	Lloyd	287	+11
69	Leroy	269	-1
70	Jessie	261	+8
70	Jim	261	+7
72	Martin	260	-9
73	Ben	259	-4
74	Donald	258	+14
74	Eddie	258	+7
74	Stanley	258	-3
77	Cecil	256	+10
78	Theodore	252	-3
79	Harvey	251	-6
80	Edgar	249	-8
81	Luther	248	-5
82	Homer	239	+3
83	Norman	223	+13
83	Philip	223	+3
85	Bernard	222	-12
86	Patrick	221	+7
87	Kenneth	214	+13
88	Hugh	209	-4
89	Milton	207	+2
90	Guy	200	+4
91	Allen	191	+12
92	Jacob	189	-11
93	Leon	188	-10
94	Otis	185	+13
95	Everett	181	0
95	Leslie	181	-6
97	Alexander	178	+9
97	Stephen	178	+1
99	Archie	177	-7
100	Victor	175	-3