Most popular US names of the 1880s
The 100 most given girl names, boy names and gender-neutral names across 1880–1889, by total births over the decade. Source: US Social Security Administration.
♀ Girls
- Mary
- Anna
- Emma
- Elizabeth
- Margaret
- Minnie
- Ida
- Bertha
- Clara
- Alice
- Annie
- Florence
- Bessie
- Grace
- Ethel
- Sarah
- Ella
- Martha
- Nellie
- Mabel
- Laura
- Carrie
- Cora
- Helen
- Maude
- Lillian
- Gertrude
- Rose
- Edna
- Pearl
- Edith
- Jennie
- Hattie
- Mattie
- Julia
- Eva
- Myrtle
- Louise
- Lillie
- Jessie
- Frances
- Catherine
- Lula
- Lena
- Marie
- Ada
- Josephine
- Fannie
- Lucy
- Dora
- Agnes
- Maggie
- Blanche
- Katherine
- Elsie
- Nora
- Mamie
- Rosa
- Stella
- Daisy
- May
- Effie
- Mae
- Ellen
- Nettie
- Ruth
- Alma
- Della
- Lizzie
- Sadie
- Sallie
- Nancy
- Susie
- Maud
- Flora
- Irene
- Etta
- Katie
- Lydia
- Lottie
- Viola
- Caroline
- Addie
- Hazel
- Georgia
- Esther
- Mollie
- Olive
- Willie
- Harriet
- Emily
- Charlotte
- Amanda
- Kathryn
- Lulu
- Susan
- Kate
- Nannie
- Jane
- Amelia
♂ Boys
- John
- William
- James
- George
- Charles
- Frank
- Joseph
- Henry
- Robert
- Thomas
- Edward
- Harry
- Walter
- Arthur
- Fred
- Albert
- Samuel
- Clarence
- Louis
- David
- Joe
- Charlie
- Richard
- Ernest
- Roy
- Will
- Andrew
- Jesse
- Oscar
- Willie
- Daniel
- Benjamin
- Carl
- Sam
- Alfred
- Earl
- Peter
- Elmer
- Frederick
- Howard
- Lewis
- Ralph
- Herbert
- Paul
- Lee
- Tom
- Herman
- Martin
- Jacob
- Michael
- Jim
- Claude
- Ben
- Eugene
- Francis
- Grover
- Raymond
- Harvey
- Clyde
- Edwin
- Edgar
- Ed
- Lawrence
- Bert
- Chester
- Jack
- Otto
- Luther
- Charley
- Guy
- Floyd
- Ira
- Ray
- Hugh
- Isaac
- Oliver
- Patrick
- Homer
- Theodore
- Leonard
- Leo
- Alexander
- August
- Harold
- Allen
- Jessie
- Archie
- Philip
- Stephen
- Horace
- Marion
- Bernard
- Anthony
- Julius
- Warren
- Leroy
- Clifford
- Eddie
- Sidney
- Milton