1890s Baby Names

4,411 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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Rankings for

#433
Franklin Franklin means a freeholder — a man who owned his land but held no noble rank, a specific medieval class.
986 in the 1890s
#434
Alvina
981 in the 1890s
#435
Lily Lily is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lily flower," from lilium.
979 in the 1890s
#436
Audrey Audrey is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "noble strength," from Æthelthryth.
977 in the 1890s
#437
Pearlie
975 in the 1890s
#438
Jose Jose is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he will add," the Spanish and Portuguese form of Joseph.
974 in the 1890s
#439
Mark Mark is a boy's name of Latin origin, most likely meaning "of Mars," borne by the evangelist who wrote the earliest gospel.
968 in the 1890s
#440
Manuel Manuel is a boy's name meaning God is with us, the Spanish short form of Emmanuel.
952 in the 1890s
#441
Lura
948 in the 1890s
#442
Curtis Curtis is a boy's name from a Norman French nickname meaning courteous, and it is one of very few names that describes manners rather than birth, appearance or trade.
947 in the 1890s
#443
Adolph
945 in the 1890s
#444
Gordon Gordon is a Scottish surname turned given name, from a place in Berwickshire whose meaning is not settled — spacious fort is the usual gloss but it is a guess.
944 in the 1890s
#445
Dovie
939 in the 1890s
#446
Claudia Claudia means lame, and it comes from one of Rome's most powerful families.
933 in the 1890s
#447
Gracie Gracie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "grace."
929 in the 1890s
#448
Nola
929 in the 1890s
#449
Jay Jay is a name serving as an initial-letter shortening for any J name, as a bird name, and as an Indian name meaning victory.
923 in the 1890s
#450
Ellis Ellis is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my God."
921 in the 1890s
#451
Nelson Nelson means son of Neil, and the admiral made it a given name — it was a surname until Trafalgar, after which parents across the English-speaking world started using it as a first name outright.
920 in the 1890s
#452
Dennis Dennis is a boy's name that traces back to Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and ecstatic release — one of the few widely used Christian names derived from a pagan deity.
919 in the 1890s
#453
Marshall Marshall began as a stable hand — the word meant a horse servant, and it climbed to become the highest rank in several armies.
916 in the 1890s
#454
Elnora
914 in the 1890s
#455
Elbert
910 in the 1890s
#456
Irving Irving names a Scottish river valley, and it reached American use largely through one writer — Washington Irving, who gave English both Rip Van Winkle and the nickname Gotham for New York.
903 in the 1890s
#457
Isabella Isabella is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath," a Spanish and Italian form of Elizabeth that developed through Occitan and Old Spanish in the medieval period.
903 in the 1890s
#458
Felix Felix is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "lucky" or "fortunate."
903 in the 1890s
#459
Eugenia
902 in the 1890s
#460
Antoinette Antoinette means little Antoine, and the meaning usually given for the parent name — flower — is a false etymology.
901 in the 1890s
#461
June June is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the month, which is named for the goddess Juno — the queen of the Roman gods and the protector of marriage and childbirth.
899 in the 1890s
#462
Ophelia Ophelia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "help" or "benefit."
899 in the 1890s
#463
Janet Janet is a girl's name, a Scottish diminutive of Jane meaning God is gracious.
898 in the 1890s
#464
Jake Jake is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," a short form of Jacob that became a name in its own right.
892 in the 1890s
#465
Linnie
886 in the 1890s
#466
Gus
885 in the 1890s
#467
Phillip Phillip is a boy's name meaning lover of horses, the doubled-l spelling of Philip.
884 in the 1890s
#468
Elvira
884 in the 1890s
#469
Ivy Ivy is a girl's name of English origin naming the climbing evergreen plant, from the Old English ifig.
881 in the 1890s
#470
Erna
879 in the 1890s
#471
Alonzo Alonzo is the Spanish descendant of a Visigothic name, and it is rising — 511th in the United States, 1,186th in Canada, 1,324th in France and 1,714th in England and Wales, having peaked as recently as 2022, which is unusual for a name birth records carry from 1880.
879 in the 1890s
#472
Roland Roland is a boy's name meaning famous land, and its bearer is the hero of France's national epic — a knight who dies at Roncevaux because he is too proud to blow his horn for help.
875 in the 1890s
#473
Linda Linda is a girl's name usually read as beautiful in Spanish or as a Germanic element meaning soft or tender.
872 in the 1890s
#474
Orville
870 in the 1890s
#475
Cornelius
870 in the 1890s
#476
Edmund Edmund was England's patron saint before George — Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia, was killed by a Viking army in 869 and held that position for some three hundred years before a crusader saint displaced him.
868 in the 1890s
#477
Rosalie Rosalie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "rose."
866 in the 1890s
#478
Oma
865 in the 1890s
#479
Adam Adam is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "earth" or "ground," from adamah.
863 in the 1890s
#480
Fanny Fanny means Frenchwoman, shortened from Frances — and it fell out of English-speaking use for reasons of slang while remaining an ordinary name in France, which is why France still ranks it 1,059th.
860 in the 1890s

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.