Baby name rankings

Top 100 baby boy names in the United States in 1900

See the most popular baby boy names, how many were recorded, and how each rank changed from 1899.

Top 100

Rank	Name	Recorded count	Change from 1899
1	John	9,828	0
2	William	8,579	0
3	James	7,245	0
4	George	5,403	0
5	Charles	4,098	0
6	Robert	3,821	+1
7	Joseph	3,714	-1
8	Frank	3,477	0
9	Edward	2,720	0
10	Henry	2,606	0
11	Thomas	2,556	0
12	Walter	2,298	0
13	Harry	2,272	0
14	Willie	2,113	+4
15	Arthur	1,853	-1
16	Albert	1,741	-1
17	Fred	1,646	-1
18	Clarence	1,483	-1
19	Paul	1,288	+2
20	Harold	1,245	-1
21	Roy	1,215	-1
22	Joe	1,179	+2
23	Raymond	1,150	-1
24	Richard	1,141	+3
25	Charlie	1,124	+6
26	Louis	1,097	0
27	Jack	1,053	+8
28	Earl	1,037	-5
29	Carl	1,016	-4
30	Ernest	1,012	-3
31	Ralph	896	-2
32	David	883	0
33	Samuel	877	-3
34	Sam	821	+10
35	Howard	779	-1
36	Herbert	751	-3
37	Andrew	718	-1
38	Elmer	699	-1
39	Lee	675	+11
40	Lawrence	659	0
41	Francis	652	-3
42	Alfred	640	-1
43	Will	603	+5
44	Daniel	598	-2
45	Eugene	587	0
46	Leo	570	-3
47	Oscar	563	-1
48	Floyd	555	+4
49	Herman	550	0
50	Jesse	536	-3
51	Michael	495	0
52	Lewis	469	+2
52	Tom	469	+14
54	Leonard	465	+6
55	Ray	457	+6
56	Clyde	451	+2
57	Benjamin	450	0
58	Peter	443	-5
59	Claude	433	+4
60	Lester	431	+5
61	Theodore	429	+17
62	Russell	427	-6
63	Eddie	425	+11
64	Frederick	420	-9
65	Leroy	419	+4
66	Clifford	409	-4
67	Anthony	406	-3
68	Jim	399	+2
69	Jessie	398	+1
70	Martin	383	+2
71	Edgar	374	+9
72	Chester	364	-6
73	Ben	355	0
74	Edwin	350	-15
75	Dewey	345	-36
76	Cecil	344	+1
77	Stanley	342	-3
78	Lloyd	337	-10
79	Donald	328	-5
80	Homer	326	+2
81	Harvey	322	-2
82	Luther	316	-1
82	Norman	316	+1
84	Johnnie	313	+29
85	Leon	310	+8
86	Bernard	308	-1
87	Ed	297	+14
88	Hugh	290	0
89	Patrick	285	-3
90	Kenneth	279	-3
91	Leslie	275	+4
92	Victor	269	+8
93	Alexander	260	+4
94	Philip	259	-11
95	Oliver	256	+12
96	Mack	250	+14
97	Horace	244	+8
98	Milton	242	-9
99	Guy	240	-9
100	Everett	237	-5