Top 100 Most Popular U.S. Baby Names Of 1888

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1888 Popular Names U.S. - Top 100 Baby Names
				Change from 1887						Change from 1887
Girls		Number of Girls	%	Rank	Number	Boys		Number of Boys	%	Rank	Number
1	Mary	11,754	6.204	0	1,866	1	John	9,247	7.118	0	1,137
2	Anna	4,982	2.630	0	755	2	William	8,705	6.701	0	1,235
3	Elizabeth	3,224	1.702	0	543	3	James	5,562	4.282	0	794
4	Emma	3,087	1.630	0	440	4	George	4,912	3.781	0	628
5	Margaret	2,904	1.533	0	485	5	Charles	4,591	3.534	0	560
6	Minnie	2,654	1.401	0	439	6	Frank	3,459	2.663	0	576
7	Bertha	2,450	1.293	0	413	7	Joseph	2,993	2.304	0	537
8	Florence	2,444	1.290	1	480	8	Robert	2,814	2.166	3	689
9	Ethel	2,374	1.253	2	467	9	Harry	2,759	2.124	3	702
10	Bessie	2,278	1.202	3	440	10	Henry	2,596	1.998	-2	368
11	Clara	2,230	1.177	-3	246	11	Edward	2,470	1.901	-1	345
12	Ida	2,229	1.177	-2	300	12	Thomas	2,449	1.885	-3	298
13	Alice	2,202	1.162	1	383	13	Walter	2,040	1.570	0	336
14	Annie	2,188	1.155	-2	344	14	Arthur	1,710	1.316	0	221
15	Grace	2,090	1.103	0	398	15	Fred	1,665	1.282	0	211
16	Helen	1,847	0.975	5	442	16	Albert	1,569	1.208	0	275
17	Mabel	1,830	0.966	1	336	17	Clarence	1,022	0.787	0	130
18	Ella	1,774	0.936	-2	253	18	Samuel	931	0.717	0	129
19	Martha	1,769	0.934	-2	265	19	Louis	884	0.680	0	93
20	Sarah	1,755	0.926	0	319	20	Roy	856	0.659	0	130
21	Nellie	1,736	0.916	-2	279	21	David	801	0.617	1	128
22	Edna	1,687	0.891	2	348	22	Charlie	796	0.613	2	154
23	Lillian	1,656	0.874	3	348	23	Joe	789	0.607	-2	104
24	Carrie	1,647	0.869	-1	303	24	Willie	786	0.605	3	196
25	Laura	1,624	0.857	-3	260	25	Benjamin	781	0.601	9	308
26	Pearl	1,591	0.840	-1	275	26	Richard	772	0.594	-1	150
27	Rose	1,590	0.839	3	348	27	Ernest	766	0.590	-4	113
28	Gertrude	1,468	0.775	0	217	28	Will	707	0.544	2	146
29	Edith	1,453	0.767	0	210	29	Carl	675	0.520	-1	87
30	Frances	1,452	0.766	4	347	30	Earl	675	0.520	2	138
31	Cora	1,433	0.756	-4	176	31	Oscar	647	0.498	-2	73
32	Maude	1,396	0.737	-1	234	32	Jesse	637	0.490	-6	36
33	Louise	1,334	0.704	2	246	33	Andrew	615	0.473	0	95
34	Eva	1,329	0.702	-1	204	34	Sam	607	0.467	5	144
35	Myrtle	1,310	0.691	1	223	35	Daniel	566	0.436	-4	10
36	Hattie	1,298	0.685	-4	163	36	Ralph	547	0.421	2	84
37	Jennie	1,298	0.685	1	251	37	Alfred	536	0.413	-2	68
38	Julia	1,292	0.682	1	249	38	Paul	529	0.407	2	80
39	Mattie	1,268	0.669	1	237	39	Elmer	527	0.406	-3	60
40	Marie	1,258	0.664	3	264	40	Howard	513	0.395	2	84
41	Lillie	1,249	0.659	-4	177	41	Peter	498	0.383	2	77
42	Catherine	1,212	0.640	2	245	42	Frederick	496	0.382	-5	32
43	Jessie	1,200	0.633	-2	188	43	Herbert	485	0.373	-2	40
44	Lula	1,173	0.619	3	282	44	Grover	474	0.365	15	184
45	Lena	1,162	0.613	-3	158	45	Raymond	469	0.361	2	97
46	Ada	1,116	0.589	-1	206	46	Michael	466	0.359	2	121
47	Elsie	1,112	0.587	2	280	47	Ben	463	0.356	11	158
48	Agnes	1,046	0.552	-2	150	48	Lee	430	0.331	-4	30
49	Josephine	1,001	0.528	1	186	49	Tom	416	0.320	3	87
50	Fannie	991	0.523	2	193	50	Lewis	412	0.317	-1	69

United States name popularity data is provided by the Social Security Administration and is based on Social Security card applications.

Data for a given year is not made available until well into the next year.

Data reflects what was recorded and has not been edited for errors, so for example the gender associated with a name may be incorrect.

The more babies that are given a particular name, the higher the popularity ranking. If multiple names have the same usage, the tie is broken by assigning popularity rank in alphabetical order. Therefore in the case of names with fewer occurrences, names with the same number of occurrences may have vastly different rankings because they will be interranked alphabetically.

To safeguard privacy, the SSA does not include names with less than 5 occurrences.

Please note, we update the data each May when the SSA releases new figures. All data changes at that time, including previous years, which will change minutely based on new information.