1880s Baby Names

1,740 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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Rankings for

#2,594
Dallie
12 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,599
Theodocia
12 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,600
Gustie
12 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,601
Georgetta
12 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,604
Olla
12 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,605
Patti Patti and Patty peaked one year apart at almost exactly the same size — 3,121 births in 1958 and 3,123 in 1959 — which is about as close as two spellings of one name get in our records.
12 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,606
Launa
12 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,608
Sussie
12 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,612
Fronnie
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,615
Ica
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,616
Creola
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,620
Lear
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,621
Christene
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,623
Lita
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,624
Aurore Aurore is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "dawn," the French form of Aurora and the name of the Roman goddess of daybreak.
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,625
Hillary
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,628
Tisha
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,631
Joella
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,632
Senora
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,633
Elida
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,638
Alys
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,639
Jetta
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,642
Mada
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,645
Lacey Lacey means from Lassy, a place in Normandy, and Scotland ranks it 308th — its strongest market, ahead of Northern Ireland at 475th and England at 480th, with the United States back at 738th.
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,646
Chattie
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,648
Hila
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,650
Luvina
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,652
Marybelle
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,655
Marina Marina means of the sea, and it charts in five markets inside 276 places — Scotland 572nd, England and Wales 581st, the United States 602nd, Ireland 647th and France 848th, which is an unusually even international spread.
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,656
Marianne Marianne is the personification of the French Republic, and her bust stands in every town hall in France — so the name carries a civic weight in one market that it has nowhere else.
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,657
Evah
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,660
Arah
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,662
Elberta
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,663
Allice
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,664
Thirza
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,666
Elba
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,668
Reva
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,670
Mariam Mariam is a girl's name of Hebrew origin and a spelling of Maryam, the Arabic and Aramaic form of Miriam.
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,671
Olivette
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,672
Cyntha
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,674
Clemie
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,680
Penny Penny is a girl's name of Greek origin, a diminutive of Penelope, whose own name is bound up with a duck.
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,681
Versa
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,682
Elenore
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,687
Verta
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,688
Evelena
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,689
Erin Erin is a girl's name of Irish origin meaning "Ireland."
11 in the 1880s 2 of 10 years
#2,692
Tacy
11 in the 1880s 2 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.