US baby names · 1883

Most popular baby names of 1883

In 1883, Social Security card applications recorded 112,320 girls and 104,625 boys born in the US under names given to at least five babies of the same sex. That covers 1,054 distinct girls’ names and 1,030 boys’ names.

The most common names were Mary (8,012 girls) and John (8,894 boys). The ten most common girls’ names together account for 23% of recorded girls, and the top ten boys’ names for 43% of boys. Compared with 1882, 4,588 fewer babies were recorded in total.

Against the top 100 of 1882, 2 girls’ names and 4 boys’ names in 1883 are newcomers (girls: Amelia, Irene; boys: Anthony, Everett, Bernard). Of these names, 20 of the 100 girls’ names and 25 of the 100 boys’ names are still in the top 100 in 2025.

Ranks follow SSA’s order: most births first, with ties listed alphabetically. Each sparkline shows the name’s full history from 1880 to 2025, so you can see whether a 1883 favourite was rising, at its peak or already fading.

SSA names.zip · Social Security card applications · retrieved 2026-10-05

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Top 100 girls’ names, 1883

Rank	Name	Girls
#1	Mary	8,012
#2	Anna	3,306
#3	Emma	2,367
#4	Elizabeth	2,255
#5	Minnie	2,035
#6	Margaret	1,881
#7	Bertha	1,681
#8	Ida	1,634
#9	Annie	1,589
#10	Clara	1,548
#11	Alice	1,488
#12	Sarah	1,359
#13	Grace	1,307
#14	Florence	1,298
#15	Martha	1,255
#16	Ella	1,251
#17	Nellie	1,246
#18	Bessie	1,241
#19	Laura	1,183
#20	Ethel	1,132
#21	Carrie	1,108
#22	Maude	1,096
#23	Mabel	1,086
#24	Cora	1,081
#25	Gertrude	923
#26	Lillian	907
#27	Jennie	904
#28	Hattie	895
#29	Pearl	886
#30	Mattie	883
#31	Edith	881
#32	Eva	879
#33	Rose	877
#34	Julia	875
#35	Helen	862
#36	Catherine	853
#37	Myrtle	851
#38	Louise	847
#39	Lillie	837
#40	Jessie	834
#41	Edna	823
#42	Lena	800
#43	Lula	790
#44	Ada	778
#45	Frances	710
#46	Josephine	697
#47	Fannie	696
#48	Lucy	663
#49	Maggie	663
#50	Daisy	659
#51	Dora	640
#52	Agnes	623
#53	Marie	622
#54	Blanche	610
#55	Nora	589
#56	Katherine	583
#57	May	532
#58	Mamie	531
#59	Stella	529
#60	Effie	507
#61	Rosa	507
#62	Ellen	500
#63	Lizzie	496
#64	Nettie	494
#65	Elsie	479
#66	Della	453
#67	Susie	436
#68	Maud	425
#69	Sadie	425
#70	Mae	423
#71	Nancy	412
#72	Sallie	409
#73	Flora	387
#74	Ruth	387
#75	Lydia	378
#76	Lottie	372
#77	Addie	362
#78	Katie	361
#79	Alma	359
#80	Etta	352
#81	Emily	342
#82	Harriet	341
#83	Viola	331
#84	Georgia	325
#85	Susan	322
#86	Caroline	321
#87	Nannie	305
#88	Lulu	302
#89	Mollie	301
#90	Kate	294
#91	Olive	294
#92	Charlotte	291
#93	Kathryn	290
#94	Amanda	287
#95	Eliza	274
#96	Willie	264
#97	Amelia	262
#98	Belle	262
#99	Esther	260
#100	Irene	260

Top 100 boys’ names, 1883

Rank	Name	Boys
#1	John	8,894
#2	William	8,387
#3	James	5,223
#4	Charles	4,826
#5	George	4,736
#6	Frank	2,986
#7	Joseph	2,515
#8	Henry	2,383
#9	Robert	2,334
#10	Thomas	2,316
#11	Edward	2,250
#12	Harry	2,110
#13	Walter	1,705
#14	Arthur	1,591
#15	Fred	1,502
#16	Albert	1,496
#17	Samuel	937
#18	Clarence	837
#19	Louis	796
#20	David	734
#21	Richard	649
#22	Charlie	643
#23	Ernest	641
#24	Andrew	623
#25	Daniel	615
#26	Joe	607
#27	Oscar	607
#28	Jesse	584
#29	Will	576
#30	Roy	556
#31	Benjamin	508
#32	Carl	480
#33	Sam	476
#34	Willie	474
#35	Alfred	457
#36	Peter	450
#37	Frederick	438
#38	Lewis	431
#39	Howard	429
#40	Elmer	423
#41	Herbert	422
#42	Earl	389
#43	Lee	388
#44	Tom	386
#45	Ralph	385
#46	Martin	377
#47	Herman	359
#48	Paul	358
#49	Jacob	356
#50	Clyde	336
#51	Eugene	325
#52	Jim	322
#53	Harvey	318
#54	Claude	315
#55	Michael	307
#56	Ben	306
#57	Edwin	299
#58	Edgar	292
#59	Chester	290
#60	Francis	285
#61	Lawrence	282
#62	Bert	273
#63	Charley	254
#64	Ed	247
#65	Jack	242
#66	Otto	240
#67	Ira	239
#68	Raymond	233
#69	Luther	229
#70	Isaac	227
#71	Guy	224
#72	Oliver	219
#73	Floyd	217
#74	Hugh	215
#75	Patrick	213
#76	Homer	210
#77	August	209
#78	Ray	202
#79	Leonard	200
#80	Alexander	187
#81	Theodore	185
#82	Allen	175
#83	Horace	167
#84	Archie	166
#85	Philip	166
#86	Sidney	165
#87	Marion	163
#88	Julius	160
#89	Jessie	151
#90	Milton	149
#91	Warren	146
#92	Anthony	143
#93	Everett	143
#94	Leroy	143
#95	Leo	142
#96	Bernard	141
#97	Leon	140
#98	Stephen	140
#99	Emil	139
#100	Clifford	138