Popular Names of 1894

The 20 most popular names given to female and to male babies born in 1894, as recorded, with each name’s rank in 2025.

Table 1. Female names, 1894
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	Mary	13,151	125
2	Anna	5,565	107
3	Margaret	3,700	112
4	Helen	3,676	462
5	Elizabeth	3,425	17
6	Ruth	3,372	173
7	Ethel	3,287	4,211
8	Florence	3,233	391
9	Emma	2,937	3
10	Marie	2,649	618
11	Clara	2,603	63
12	Minnie	2,592	3,060
13	Bessie	2,520	6,889
14	Bertha	2,496	4,569
15	Edna	2,458	2,463
16	Lillian	2,441	57
17	Alice	2,414	65
18	Annie	2,393	182
19	Grace	2,361	38
20	Mabel	2,221	201

Table 2. Male names, 1894
Rank	Name	Number	Rank in 2025
1	John	8,237	23
2	William	7,274	9
3	James	5,110	6
4	George	4,365	126
5	Charles	3,788	48
6	Joseph	2,977	29
7	Frank	2,863	514
8	Robert	2,497	92
9	Henry	2,278	5
10	Harry	2,189	775
11	Edward	2,179	224
12	Thomas	2,170	34
13	Walter	2,010	252
14	Arthur	1,712	87
15	Fred	1,475	1,936
16	Albert	1,447	614
17	Clarence	1,185	1,500
18	Roy	1,018	525
19	Willie	986	1,322
20	Earl	896	2,236

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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.