Popular Names of 1893

The 20 most popular names given to female and to male babies born in 1893, as recorded, with each name’s rank in 2025. Claudius peaked among human males this year, at 780th.

Table 1. Female names, 1893
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	Mary	12,784	125
2	Anna	5,695	107
3	Ruth	3,658	173
4	Margaret	3,565	112
5	Elizabeth	3,360	17
6	Helen	3,249	462
7	Florence	3,231	391
8	Ethel	3,119	4,211
9	Emma	2,968	3
10	Bertha	2,623	4,569
11	Clara	2,532	63
12	Minnie	2,510	3,060
13	Alice	2,434	65
14	Edna	2,378	2,463
15	Bessie	2,352	6,889
16	Grace	2,308	38
17	Annie	2,251	182
18	Ida	2,247	1,120
19	Marie	2,212	618
20	Lillian	2,193	57

Table 2. Male names, 1893
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	John	8,049	23
2	William	7,223	9
3	James	5,030	6
4	George	4,320	126
5	Charles	3,723	48
6	Joseph	2,997	29
7	Frank	2,917	514
8	Robert	2,563	92
9	Edward	2,309	224
10	Harry	2,245	775
11	Henry	2,162	5
12	Thomas	2,157	34
13	Walter	2,004	252
14	Arthur	1,635	87
15	Fred	1,493	1,936
16	Albert	1,353	614
17	Clarence	1,169	1,500
18	Roy	919	525
19	Willie	882	1,322
20	Samuel	851	18

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As recorded on the Social Security card application. Names given to fewer than five babies of a sex in a year are not published, so the file is a floor.