Baby names of 1892

Mary and John topped the lists in 1892, out of 334,374 births recorded across 2,686 different names. That is 16.6% more than the 1891 files hold.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Mary	13,172
2	Anna	5,542
3	Elizabeth	3,461
4	Margaret	3,435
5	Ruth	3,290
6	Florence	3,154
7	Emma	3,128
8	Ethel	3,035
9	Helen	2,936
10	Clara	2,661
11	Bertha	2,617
12	Minnie	2,609
13	Bessie	2,541
14	Alice	2,373
15	Annie	2,348
16	Grace	2,299
17	Ida	2,259
18	Edna	2,218
19	Mabel	2,170
20	Lillian	2,154
21	Marie	2,066
22	Rose	2,023
23	Gertrude	1,924
24	Martha	1,915
25	Hazel	1,897

All 200 girls’ names of 1892 (1,661 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	John	9,039
2	William	7,782
3	James	5,398
4	George	4,760
5	Charles	4,319
6	Frank	3,150
7	Joseph	3,064
8	Robert	2,710
9	Harry	2,460
10	Henry	2,452
11	Edward	2,416
12	Thomas	2,413
13	Walter	2,229
14	Arthur	1,768
15	Fred	1,628
16	Albert	1,500
17	Clarence	1,276
18	Roy	1,048
19	Willie	948
20	Samuel	902
21	Earl	888
22	Louis	865
23	Joe	819
24	David	813
25	Carl	808

All 200 boys’ names of 1892 (1,260 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1891:

Lollie #1,093 → #540 +553
Leonore #1,332 → #796 +536
Gwendolyn #1,213 → #685 +528
Rubye #1,213 → #706 +507
Antonette #1,213 → #706 +507
Monnie #1,213 → #706 +507
Louvenia #1,093 → #590 +503
Hildred #1,213 → #726 +487

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 1891:

Pierce #963 → #404 +559
Milford #963 → #458 +505
Omar #963 → #497 +466
Rose #963 → #497 +466
Shelby #841 → #445 +396
Butler #963 → #572 +391
Terry #963 → #597 +366
Bart #963 → #597 +366

Rose and Shelby are here because the boys’ file records them: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

First recorded in 1892, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1892:

First recorded in 1892, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1892:

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Source: US Social Security Administration national baby-name files. Names given to fewer than five babies in a year are not published, so the totals here run below the true number of births. How far below is not the same in every year: the files hold 201,484 births for 1880 and 3,315,343 for 2025, so a change from one year to the next in the early decades is partly a change in what the record covers.