Baby name rankings

Top 100 baby boy names in the United States in 1901

See the most popular baby boy names, how many were recorded, and how each rank changed from 1900.

Top 100

Rank	Name	Recorded count	Change from 1900
1	John	6,900	0
2	William	5,990	0
3	James	4,735	0
4	George	3,609	0
5	Charles	3,049	0
6	Joseph	2,766	+1
7	Robert	2,543	-1
8	Frank	2,402	0
9	Edward	1,917	0
10	Henry	1,870	0
11	Thomas	1,820	0
12	Walter	1,718	0
13	Harry	1,594	0
14	Arthur	1,329	+1
15	Albert	1,317	+1
16	Willie	1,294	-2
17	Clarence	1,196	+1
18	Fred	1,133	-1
19	Paul	924	0
20	Roy	917	+1
21	Harold	915	-1
22	Raymond	888	+1
23	Earl	818	+5
24	Carl	817	+5
25	Louis	797	+1
26	Richard	784	-2
27	Joe	756	-5
28	Ernest	691	+2
29	Ralph	682	+2
30	David	672	+2
31	Charlie	654	-6
32	Jack	645	-5
33	Samuel	628	0
34	Howard	584	+1
35	Herbert	573	+1
36	Francis	543	+5
37	Lawrence	535	+3
38	Elmer	520	0
39	Alfred	506	+3
40	Andrew	479	-3
40	Sam	479	-6
42	Leo	456	+4
43	Theodore	450	+18
44	Eugene	445	+1
45	Lee	424	-6
46	Floyd	423	+2
47	Oscar	422	0
48	Daniel	416	-4
49	Jesse	411	+1
50	Russell	395	+12
51	Herman	393	-2
52	Michael	384	-1
53	Will	364	-10
54	Leonard	362	0
55	Clyde	356	+1
56	Benjamin	343	+1
56	Peter	343	+2
58	Claude	341	+1
59	Ray	338	-4
60	Frederick	336	+4
61	Lester	332	-1
62	Anthony	323	+5
63	Lewis	309	-11
64	Martin	304	+6
65	Edwin	299	+9
66	Eddie	296	-3
67	Tom	291	-15
68	Lloyd	285	+10
69	Clifford	282	-3
70	Cecil	278	+6
71	Edgar	271	0
72	Leroy	268	-7
73	Ben	259	0
74	Homer	257	+6
75	Chester	253	-3
75	Harvey	253	+6
77	Donald	250	+2
78	Kenneth	246	+12
79	Luther	244	+3
80	Bernard	242	+6
81	Jim	239	-13
81	Stanley	239	-4
83	Norman	238	-1
84	Philip	232	+10
85	Jessie	231	-16
86	Everett	218	+14
87	Leon	208	-2
88	Allen	199	+16
89	Leslie	198	+2
90	Milton	197	+8
91	Hugh	192	-3
92	Oliver	187	+3
93	Patrick	181	-4
94	Glenn	180	+24
95	Alvin	179	+9
96	Horace	178	+1
97	Melvin	176	+5
98	Jacob	172	+3
99	Guy	170	0
100	Victor	169	-8