Top Baby Names of 1884
The most popular baby names in the United States
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Girl Names
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Mary 9,217 2
Anna 3,860 3
Emma 2,587 4
Elizabeth 2,549 5
Minnie 2,243 6
Margaret 2,142 7
Ida 1,882 8
Clara 1,852 9
Bertha 1,789 10
Annie 1,739 11
Alice 1,732 12
Florence 1,570 13
Grace 1,525 14
Sarah 1,518 15
Bessie 1,451 16
Martha 1,443 17
Nellie 1,417 18
Ethel 1,386 19
Ella 1,374 20
Mabel 1,270 21
Laura 1,246 22
Carrie 1,245 23
Cora 1,244 24
Maude 1,225 25
Pearl 1,138 26
Lillian 1,109 27
Edith 1,104 28
Jennie 1,063 28
Gertrude 1,063 30
Rose 1,060 31
Mattie 1,007 32
Hattie 993 33
Helen 986 34
Myrtle 979 35
Louise 962 36
Edna 957 37
Julia 935 38
Eva 929 39
Lula 916 40
Lillie 911 41
Lena 906 42
Jessie 888 43
Catherine 874 44
Ada 854 45
Josephine 800 46
Frances 789 47
Lucy 787 48
Maggie 749 49
Marie 746 50
Fannie 738 👦
Boy Names
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John 9,388 2
William 8,897 3
James 5,693 4
George 4,961 5
Charles 4,802 6
Frank 3,218 7
Joseph 2,707 8
Thomas 2,572 9
Henry 2,474 10
Robert 2,468 11
Edward 2,439 12
Harry 2,323 13
Walter 1,902 14
Arthur 1,690 15
Fred 1,638 16
Albert 1,435 17
Samuel 945 18
Clarence 889 19
Louis 886 20
Grover 802 21
David 761 22
Joe 759 23
Richard 749 24
Charlie 746 25
Ernest 690 26
Roy 680 27
Jesse 670 28
Will 650 29
Andrew 616 30
Oscar 615 31
Willie 578 32
Daniel 573 33
Sam 533 34
Peter 524 35
Elmer 523 36
Carl 521 37
Alfred 520 38
Benjamin 509 39
Lewis 476 40
Earl 464 40
Ralph 464 42
Frederick 454 43
Lee 435 44
Howard 432 45
Paul 422 46
Herbert 421 47
Tom 394 48
Martin 385 48
Herman 385 50
Jacob 381 About 1884 Baby Name Rankings
These rankings show the most popular baby names in the United States for 1884, 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.