Top Baby Names of 1886
The most popular baby names in the United States
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Girl Names
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Mary 9,889 2
Anna 4,283 3
Emma 2,764 4
Elizabeth 2,680 5
Minnie 2,372 6
Margaret 2,275 7
Ida 2,049 8
Bertha 2,001 9
Clara 1,916 10
Florence 1,860 11
Alice 1,811 12
Bessie 1,791 13
Annie 1,765 14
Grace 1,723 15
Ethel 1,699 16
Sarah 1,569 17
Nellie 1,492 18
Martha 1,491 19
Ella 1,464 20
Mabel 1,422 21
Carrie 1,396 22
Laura 1,372 23
Edna 1,314 24
Lillian 1,282 25
Helen 1,267 26
Rose 1,261 27
Gertrude 1,249 28
Cora 1,231 29
Pearl 1,204 30
Maude 1,189 31
Edith 1,184 32
Eva 1,155 33
Hattie 1,139 34
Jennie 1,100 35
Myrtle 1,094 36
Julia 1,061 36
Louise 1,061 38
Frances 1,059 39
Mattie 1,044 40
Lula 1,040 41
Jessie 1,003 42
Lillie 995 43
Lena 992 44
Marie 988 45
Catherine 916 46
Ada 915 47
Josephine 844 48
Fannie 837 49
Dora 827 50
Lucy 817 👦
Boy Names
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John 9,026 2
William 8,252 3
James 5,355 4
George 4,671 5
Charles 4,533 6
Frank 3,127 7
Joseph 2,594 8
Robert 2,443 9
Henry 2,404 10
Thomas 2,337 11
Edward 2,312 12
Harry 2,257 13
Walter 1,880 14
Arthur 1,656 15
Fred 1,599 16
Albert 1,488 17
Clarence 995 18
Samuel 870 19
Louis 846 20
Roy 767 21
Joe 759 22
Charlie 723 23
Richard 720 24
David 674 25
Ernest 668 26
Oscar 645 27
Will 642 28
Willie 641 29
Andrew 614 29
Jesse 614 31
Earl 570 32
Carl 556 33
Daniel 555 34
Sam 519 35
Elmer 485 36
Alfred 480 37
Howard 467 38
Paul 466 39
Benjamin 463 40
Frederick 461 41
Ralph 440 42
Peter 437 43
Lewis 431 44
Herman 418 45
Grover 407 46
Herbert 400 47
Lee 399 48
Claude 391 49
Jim 389 50
Tom 383 About 1886 Baby Name Rankings
These rankings show the most popular baby names in the United States for 1886, 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.