1890s Baby Names
1,514 names were given to children in the United States between 1890 and 1899, 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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#1,776Rocco Rocco is a boy's name of Germanic origin, generally read from a root meaning rest or repose.80 in the 1890s 9 of 10 years
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#1,804Graham Graham is a boy's name of English origin meaning "gravelly homestead," from Grantham in Lincolnshire.79 in the 1890s 9 of 10 years
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#1,812Gaston Gaston is a boy's name most likely meaning "from Gascony," and a Disney villain has made it difficult in English while France is reviving it.78 in the 1890s 9 of 10 years
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#1,839Nolan Nolan is a boy's name of Irish origin, anglicized from Ó Nualláin.75 in the 1890s 8 of 10 years
What made a 1890s name
Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 1890 and 1899, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "1890s 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.