Baby name rankings

Top 100 baby boy names in the United States in 1905

See the most popular baby boy names, how many were recorded, and how each rank changed from 1904.

Top 100

Rank	Name	Recorded count	Change from 1904
1	John	8,059	0
2	William	6,495	0
3	James	6,042	0
4	George	4,256	0
5	Charles	3,608	+1
6	Robert	3,410	-1
7	Joseph	3,302	0
8	Frank	2,837	0
9	Edward	2,366	0
10	Thomas	2,135	+1
11	Henry	2,126	-1
12	Walter	1,902	0
13	Willie	1,782	+1
14	Harry	1,619	-1
15	Albert	1,532	+1
16	Arthur	1,505	-1
17	Clarence	1,377	0
18	Fred	1,284	0
19	Paul	1,262	0
20	Harold	1,258	0
21	Raymond	1,159	+1
22	Richard	1,033	+2
23	Joe	1,024	0
24	Roy	1,016	-3
25	Louis	981	+1
26	Carl	959	-1
27	Ralph	938	+1
28	Jack	907	-1
29	Earl	904	0
30	Samuel	856	+4
31	Ernest	845	+1
32	David	838	-1
33	Theodore	834	-3
34	Charlie	801	-1
35	Howard	735	0
36	Francis	685	0
37	Herbert	681	0
38	Lawrence	669	0
39	Sam	620	+1
40	Andrew	619	+3
41	Elmer	602	-2
42	Eugene	593	+2
43	Alfred	591	-2
44	Floyd	523	+8
45	Michael	513	+5
46	Leo	512	-4
47	Leonard	495	-1
48	Anthony	490	+8
49	Lee	486	-4
50	Daniel	484	-1
51	Herman	475	-4
52	Clyde	474	-1
52	Kenneth	474	+5
54	Jesse	443	-1
55	Leroy	441	+5
56	Oscar	436	-2
57	Lester	432	+4
57	Russell	432	-9
59	Donald	425	-1
60	Ray	424	-5
61	Clifford	420	+5
62	Peter	409	0
63	Claude	399	+7
64	Chester	388	+5
65	Lewis	384	-6
65	Stanley	384	0
67	Frederick	381	-4
68	Benjamin	379	0
69	Lloyd	369	+4
70	Edwin	357	-6
71	Norman	350	+6
72	Cecil	347	-5
73	Eddie	346	+2
74	Jessie	338	+2
75	Martin	332	-4
76	Homer	318	+11
77	Tom	317	-3
78	Edgar	315	+2
79	Luther	308	+3
80	Milton	299	+13
81	Johnnie	297	+3
82	Bernard	292	-10
83	Melvin	291	+9
84	Ben	290	-1
85	Harvey	286	-6
85	Will	286	-4
87	Leon	274	+3
88	Allen	272	+8
89	Everett	270	+6
90	Victor	268	+8
91	Roosevelt	264	+2
92	Alvin	258	-4
93	Stephen	246	+24
94	Leslie	237	-3
95	Jim	236	-10
96	Philip	234	-11
97	Virgil	226	+3
98	Jacob	220	-9
99	Otis	216	+16
100	Marvin	215	+3