Baby names of 1895

Mary and John topped the lists in 1895, out of 351,020 births recorded across 2,799 different names. That is 3.6% more than the 1894 files hold.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Mary	13,447
2	Anna	5,950
3	Helen	4,023
4	Margaret	3,931
5	Elizabeth	3,603
6	Ruth	3,551
7	Florence	3,471
8	Ethel	3,391
9	Marie	3,011
10	Emma	2,952
11	Bertha	2,626
12	Clara	2,613
13	Minnie	2,567
14	Edna	2,560
15	Bessie	2,542
16	Lillian	2,495
17	Alice	2,457
18	Grace	2,448
19	Annie	2,390
20	Mabel	2,359
21	Rose	2,262
22	Hazel	2,252
23	Ida	2,170
24	Gertrude	2,129
25	Martha	2,096

All 200 girls’ names of 1895 (1,808 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	John	8,320
2	William	7,277
3	James	5,335
4	George	4,289
5	Charles	3,633
6	Frank	3,012
7	Joseph	2,992
8	Robert	2,635
9	Henry	2,221
10	Edward	2,203
11	Thomas	2,153
12	Harry	2,128
13	Walter	2,015
14	Arthur	1,666
15	Fred	1,483
16	Albert	1,391
17	Clarence	1,326
18	Willie	1,071
19	Roy	1,028
20	Paul	933
21	Louis	913
22	Carl	851
22	Earl	851
24	Ernest	834
25	Samuel	814

All 200 boys’ names of 1895 (1,241 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1894:

Glenn #1,353 → #638 +715
Lorine #1,485 → #815 +670
Drusilla #1,485 → #815 +670
Gertha #1,485 → #815 +670
Leva #1,485 → #858 +627
Else #1,485 → #932 +553
Laurie #1,485 → #932 +553
Doretta #1,485 → #986 +499

Glenn is here because the girls’ file records it: 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.

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 1894:

Alma #1,074 → #501 +573
Delmar #954 → #491 +463
Connie #954 → #501 +453
Lindsay #1,074 → #640 +434
Brady #1,074 → #640 +434
Quincy #1,074 → #640 +434
Bradford #1,074 → #640 +434
Evert #954 → #529 +425

Alma, Connie and Lindsay 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 1895, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1895:

First recorded in 1895, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1895:

Lindley is here because the boys’ file records it: 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.

Try it on yourself

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.