1880s Baby Names
1,426 names were given to children in the United States between 1880 and 1889, ranked below by how many.
A name's place is its total across those ten years. Names that appear in only some of the decade say so, because a name recorded once is a different fact from one recorded every year.
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#2,986Odin Odin is a boy's name of Old Norse origin meaning roughly "the frenzied one".6 in the 1880s 1 of 10 years
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#3,011Pascal Pascal is a boy's name meaning of Easter, given to children born at Passover or Easter — and the word behind it is Hebrew, not Latin.6 in the 1880s 1 of 10 years
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#3,015Jacques Jacques is a boy's name, the French form of Jacob, and our data marks it reviving.6 in the 1880s 1 of 10 years
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#3,019Ricardo Ricardo is a boy's name meaning brave ruler, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Richard.6 in the 1880s 1 of 10 years
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#3,024Julien Julien is a boy's name, the French form of Julian, from a Roman family name whose meaning was never established.6 in the 1880s 1 of 10 years
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#3,047Andre Andre is a boy's name, the French form of Andrew, from the Greek for manly.6 in the 1880s 1 of 10 years
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#3,054Joaquin Joaquin is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "established by God".6 in the 1880s 1 of 10 years
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#3,060Emiliano Emiliano is a boy's name of Latin origin, the Spanish and Italian form of Aemilianus, from the Roman family name Aemilius.6 in the 1880s 1 of 10 years
What made a 1880s name
Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 1880 and 1889, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "1880s names" you will find elsewhere is somebody's sense of the period; this one is the register.
Why Some Names Only Cover Part of the Decade
A name that appears in three of the ten years either arrived partway through or faded out — and either is more interesting than the total on its own. The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.
Where to Go Next
Open any name to see its full curve — most of these have a hundred and forty years of it. Or compare the ends of the same measurement: the most popular names now and the rarest.