Names that belong entirely to the 1880s
Every decade signs its name in the records. These reached their all-time top-100 peak in the 1880s — the years of gaslamps, parlors and the very first pages of the national records — and have since stepped out of the mainstream.
Choose one to honor that generation, or simply enjoy the most concentrated time capsule the records can offer.
Girls
- Minnie#5 in 1880 · rare today
- Ida#7 in 1880 · rare today
- Bertha#7 in 1883 · rare today
- Bessie#9 in 1889 · rare today
- Nellie#14 in 1881 · rare today
- Martha#14 in 1882 · rare today
- Carrie#20 in 1880 · rare today
- Maude#20 in 1882 · rare today
- Pearl#24 in 1889 · rare today
- Jennie#24 in 1880 · rare today
- Mattie#25 in 1882 · rare today
- Hattie#27 in 1880 · rare today
- Lillie#33 in 1881 · rare today
- Jessie#34 in 1881 · rare today
- Lula#36 in 1881 · rare today
- Dora#46 in 1881 · rare today
- Fannie#47 in 1881 · rare today
- Blanche#51 in 1886 · rare today
- Rosa#52 in 1880 · rare today
- Mamie#53 in 1888 · rare today
- Effie#55 in 1882 · rare today
- May#57 in 1880 · rare today
- Della#60 in 1881 · rare today
- Lizzie#62 in 1882 · rare today
Boys
- Frank#6 in 1880 · rare today
- Harry#8 in 1889 · rare today
- Fred#14 in 1885 · rare today
- Clarence#17 in 1885 · rare today
- Roy#18 in 1889 · rare today
- Grover#20 in 1884 · rare today
- Joe#20 in 1880 · rare today
- Ernest#21 in 1885 · rare today
- Will#25 in 1882 · rare today
- Lewis#30 in 1880 · rare today
- Sam#30 in 1882 · rare today
- Alfred#32 in 1882 · rare today
- Frederick#33 in 1880 · rare today
- Tom#40 in 1880 · rare today
- Ben#43 in 1889 · rare today
- Herman#44 in 1886 · rare today
- Martin#44 in 1880 · rare today
- Jim#45 in 1882 · rare today
- Claude#46 in 1887 · rare today
- Bert#47 in 1880 · rare today
- Edgar#50 in 1881 · rare today
- Clyde#50 in 1883 · rare today
- Ed#54 in 1882 · rare today
- Ira#57 in 1881 · rare today
How this list is built: Names whose all-time top-100 peak fell in the 1880s and which now rank outside the national top-300 (or are unranked). Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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