Top Baby Names of 1882
The most popular baby names in the United States
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Girl Names
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Mary 8,148 2
Anna 3,143 3
Emma 2,303 4
Elizabeth 2,186 5
Minnie 2,004 6
Margaret 1,821 7
Ida 1,673 8
Alice 1,542 9
Bertha 1,508 10
Annie 1,492 11
Clara 1,490 12
Sarah 1,410 13
Florence 1,322 14
Martha 1,229 15
Ella 1,206 16
Grace 1,195 17
Laura 1,151 18
Bessie 1,144 19
Nellie 1,138 20
Maude 1,089 21
Cora 1,076 22
Carrie 1,037 23
Mabel 997 24
Ethel 989 25
Mattie 966 26
Gertrude 939 27
Jennie 934 28
Rose 886 29
Edith 876 30
Hattie 859 31
Helen 838 32
Lillian 830 33
Pearl 824 34
Louise 813 35
Julia 811 36
Lillie 810 37
Jessie 806 38
Myrtle 803 39
Edna 783 40
Lula 780 41
Eva 765 42
Catherine 726 43
Lena 697 44
Ada 689 45
Frances 681 46
Lucy 673 47
Fannie 650 48
Daisy 648 49
Josephine 638 50
Maggie 627 👦
Boy Names
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John 9,557 2
William 9,298 3
James 5,892 4
George 5,193 5
Charles 5,091 6
Frank 3,176 7
Joseph 2,670 8
Thomas 2,610 9
Henry 2,579 10
Robert 2,500 11
Edward 2,477 12
Harry 2,232 13
Walter 1,805 14
Arthur 1,686 15
Fred 1,641 16
Albert 1,499 17
Samuel 1,003 18
Louis 852 19
David 838 20
Clarence 837 21
Charlie 753 22
Richard 746 23
Joe 739 24
Andrew 673 25
Will 666 26
Jesse 660 27
Ernest 642 28
Oscar 625 29
Daniel 594 30
Sam 555 31
Willie 541 32
Alfred 523 33
Roy 521 34
Benjamin 478 34
Carl 478 36
Peter 461 37
Frederick 457 38
Lewis 441 38
Elmer 441 40
Herbert 431 41
Lee 427 42
Howard 422 43
Ralph 407 44
Paul 397 45
Jim 396 46
Jacob 390 46
Tom 390 48
Martin 387 49
Earl 377 50
Claude 356 About 1882 Baby Name Rankings
These rankings show the most popular baby names in the United States for 1882, based on Social Security Administration data. The list includes all babies born in the U.S. whose names were registered with the SSA.
Names are ranked by the number of babies given each name during the year. Click on any name to see its complete history, including popularity trends over 145 years and regional data across all 50 states.