1890s Baby Names

2,477 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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#2,811
Octa
22 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,813
Zylpha
22 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,818
Joann Joann is a girl's name meaning God is gracious, a simplified spelling of Joanna.
22 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,821
Peggie
22 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,822
Lidia
22 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,823
Saddie
22 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,825
Florina
22 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,828
Decie
22 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,829
Oneta
22 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,834
Felicie
22 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,835
Fronnie
22 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,836
Lydie Lydie names a kingdom, and that kingdom invented money — Lydia struck the world's first coins in the seventh century BC, and its last king Croesus is still a byword for wealth.
22 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,837
Arminda
22 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,839
Alethia
22 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,841
Corinna
21 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,843
Rea
21 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,844
Iza
21 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,847
Irine
21 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,849
Tiney
21 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,850
Ednah
21 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,851
Maryetta
21 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,853
Lucindy
21 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,854
Syble
21 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,855
Doll
21 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,856
Whitney Whitney was already climbing before Whitney Houston, and the debut album accelerated it rather than starting it — 1,632 births in 1982, 2,488 by 1984, then 4,068 in 1985 and 9,781 in 1986.
21 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,858
Annah
21 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,859
Mimie
21 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,863
Refugia
21 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,866
Nollie
21 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,873
Minervia
20 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,875
Enna
20 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,876
Bertina
20 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,880
Harlie
20 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,881
Aletta
20 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,882
Marcelina
20 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,883
Fedora
20 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,884
Cleola
20 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,887
Celestina
20 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,888
Fredda
20 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,889
Kathlyn
20 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,890
Ionia
20 in the 1890s 4 of 10 years
#2,892
Hillary Hillary is a girl's name meaning "cheerful" or "happy," from the Latin hilaris.
20 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,894
Jaunita
20 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,895
Marceline Marceline is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "of Mars".
20 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,899
Madgie
20 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,903
Gaynelle
19 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,904
Aurilla
19 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years
#2,905
Assunta
19 in the 1890s 3 of 10 years

What Made a 1890s Name

Children in the United States were registered with it between 1890 and 1899. A name's position here is how many of them were.

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.