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The most popular baby names of 1880

SSA recorded 201,484 births in 1880 across all reported names — 90,994 girls and 110,490 boys.

Top 100 girls' names in 1880

Rank, births, and the change in rank against 1879.
#NameBirthsvs 1879
1 Mary 7,065 new
2 Anna 2,604 new
3 Emma 2,003 new
4 Elizabeth 1,939 new
5 Minnie 1,746 new
6 Margaret 1,578 new
7 Ida 1,472 new
8 Alice 1,414 new
9 Bertha 1,320 new
10 Sarah 1,288 new
11 Annie 1,258 new
12 Clara 1,226 new
13 Ella 1,156 new
14 Florence 1,063 new
15 Cora 1,045 new
16 Martha 1,040 new
17 Laura 1,012 new
18 Nellie 995 new
19 Grace 982 new
20 Carrie 949 new
21 Maude 859 new
22 Mabel 808 new
23 Bessie 796 new
24 Jennie 793 new
25 Gertrude 787 new
26 Julia 783 new
27 Hattie 769 new
28 Edith 768 new
29 Mattie 704 new
30 Rose 700 new
31 Catherine 688 new
32 Lillian 672 new
33 Ada 652 new
34 Lillie 647 new
35 Helen 636 new
36 Jessie 635 new
36 Louise 635 new
38 Ethel 633 new
39 Lula 621 new
40 Myrtle 615 new
41 Eva 614 new
42 Frances 605 new
43 Lena 603 new
44 Lucy 590 new
45 Edna 588 new
46 Maggie 582 new
47 Pearl 569 new
48 Daisy 564 new
49 Fannie 560 new
50 Josephine 544 new
51 Dora 524 new
52 Rosa 507 new
53 Katherine 502 new
54 Agnes 473 new
55 Marie 471 new
55 Nora 471 new
57 May 462 new
58 Mamie 436 new
59 Blanche 427 new
60 Stella 414 new
61 Ellen 411 new
62 Nancy 410 new
63 Effie 406 new
64 Sallie 404 new
65 Nettie 403 new
66 Della 391 new
67 Lizzie 388 new
68 Flora 365 new
69 Susie 361 new
70 Maud 345 new
71 Mae 344 new
72 Etta 323 new
73 Harriet 319 new
74 Sadie 317 new
75 Caroline 306 new
76 Katie 303 new
77 Lydia 302 new
78 Elsie 301 new
79 Kate 299 new
80 Susan 286 new
81 Mollie 283 new
82 Alma 277 new
83 Addie 274 new
84 Georgia 259 new
85 Eliza 252 new
86 Lulu 249 new
87 Nannie 248 new
88 Lottie 245 new
89 Amanda 241 new
90 Belle 238 new
91 Charlotte 237 new
92 Rebecca 236 new
93 Ruth 234 new
94 Viola 229 new
95 Olive 224 new
96 Amelia 221 new
96 Hannah 221 new
98 Jane 215 new
99 Virginia 213 new
100 Emily 210 new
100 Matilda 210 new

Top 100 boys' names in 1880

Rank, births, and the change in rank against 1879.
#NameBirthsvs 1879
1 John 9,655 new
2 William 9,532 new
3 James 5,927 new
4 Charles 5,348 new
5 George 5,126 new
6 Frank 3,242 new
7 Joseph 2,632 new
8 Thomas 2,534 new
9 Henry 2,444 new
10 Robert 2,415 new
11 Edward 2,364 new
12 Harry 2,152 new
13 Walter 1,755 new
14 Arthur 1,599 new
15 Fred 1,569 new
16 Albert 1,493 new
17 Samuel 1,024 new
18 David 869 new
19 Louis 828 new
20 Joe 731 new
21 Charlie 730 new
21 Clarence 730 new
23 Richard 728 new
24 Andrew 644 new
25 Daniel 643 new
26 Ernest 615 new
27 Will 588 new
28 Jesse 569 new
29 Oscar 544 new
30 Lewis 517 new
31 Peter 496 new
32 Benjamin 490 new
33 Frederick 483 new
34 Willie 476 new
35 Alfred 469 new
36 Sam 457 new
37 Roy 440 new
38 Herbert 424 new
39 Jacob 404 new
40 Tom 399 new
41 Elmer 373 new
42 Carl 372 new
43 Lee 361 new
44 Howard 357 new
44 Martin 357 new
46 Michael 354 new
47 Bert 348 new
48 Herman 347 new
49 Jim 345 new
50 Francis 344 new
50 Harvey 344 new
52 Earl 335 new
53 Eugene 328 new
54 Ralph 317 new
55 Ed 310 new
56 Claude 309 new
56 Edwin 309 new
58 Ben 305 new
58 Charley 305 new
60 Paul 301 new
61 Edgar 283 new
62 Isaac 274 new
63 Otto 271 new
64 Luther 260 new
65 Lawrence 257 new
66 Ira 249 new
67 Patrick 248 new
68 Guy 239 new
69 Oliver 234 new
70 Theodore 232 new
71 Hugh 224 new
72 Clyde 221 new
73 Alexander 211 new
74 August 210 new
75 Floyd 206 new
76 Homer 205 new
77 Jack 204 new
78 Leonard 200 new
79 Horace 199 new
80 Marion 189 new
81 Philip 186 new
82 Allen 184 new
83 Archie 183 new
84 Stephen 176 new
85 Chester 168 new
86 Willis 166 new
87 Raymond 165 new
88 Rufus 163 new
89 Warren 158 new
90 Jessie 154 new
91 Milton 149 new
92 Alex 147 new
92 Leo 147 new
94 Julius 143 new
95 Ray 142 new
95 Sidney 142 new
97 Bernard 140 new
97 Dan 140 new
99 Jerry 136 new
100 Calvin 134 new
100 Perry 134 new

Names that first appear in 1880

1880 is the earliest year these names clear the SSA reporting threshold of five births.