Most Popular Baby Names of 1904

In 1904, Mary was the most popular name for girls, given to 14,961 babies, and John topped the boys' list with 8,108. Mary held on to number one for a 25th year in a row, and John held on to number one for a 25th year in a row.

Social Security counted 275,362 girls and 128,122 boys born in 1904 under names given to at least five babies, spread across 2,165 different girls' names and 1,395 boys' names.

Top 100 names of 1904

Top girls' names, 1904
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1903
1	Mary	14,961	same
2	Helen	6,488	same
3	Anna	5,330	same
4	Margaret	5,302	same
5	Ruth	4,900	same
6	Elizabeth	3,833	same
7	Marie	3,595	same
8	Florence	3,572	same
9	Mildred	3,525	up 1
10	Dorothy	3,477	up 1
11	Ethel	3,296	down 2
12	Lillian	3,139	up 1
13	Alice	3,131	down 1
14	Gladys	2,976	same
15	Edna	2,762	same
16	Frances	2,657	up 3
17	Annie	2,631	same
18	Rose	2,631	same
19	Grace	2,513	down 3
20	Bertha	2,363	up 2
21	Bessie	2,340	same
22	Emma	2,312	up 1
23	Hazel	2,301	up 3
24	Clara	2,281	down 4
25	Gertrude	2,269	down 1
26	Irene	2,212	up 2
27	Mabel	2,172	down 2
28	Louise	2,136	up 3
29	Martha	2,019	same
30	Pearl	2,015	down 3
31	Catherine	1,982	up 1
32	Esther	1,957	up 2
33	Edith	1,944	same
34	Myrtle	1,905	down 4
35	Minnie	1,885	same
36	Eva	1,858	same
37	Thelma	1,757	up 10
38	Ida	1,751	down 1
39	Elsie	1,719	down 1
40	Josephine	1,701	same
41	Ruby	1,701	up 1
42	Agnes	1,672	down 3
43	Sarah	1,594	down 2
44	Nellie	1,560	up 1
45	Beatrice	1,549	up 4
46	Viola	1,545	down 2
47	Laura	1,508	down 4
48	Ella	1,432	up 2
49	Julia	1,426	down 1
50	Evelyn	1,372	up 4
51	Lillie	1,364	down 5
52	Mattie	1,362	down 1
53	Lucille	1,351	up 4
54	Carrie	1,280	down 2
55	Alma	1,257	down 2
56	Pauline	1,243	up 6
57	Lena	1,228	down 1
58	Mae	1,214	same
59	Virginia	1,213	up 4
60	Jessie	1,197	down 5
61	Willie	1,188	up 6
62	Blanche	1,142	down 3
63	Katherine	1,128	up 3
64	Hattie	1,123	down 4
65	Marion	1,109	down 4
66	Lucy	1,086	up 2
67	Mamie	1,041	up 2
68	Stella	1,026	down 3
69	Leona	998	up 7
70	Cora	993	same
71	Vera	993	up 4
72	Beulah	983	same
73	Fannie	964	down 9
74	Jennie	964	down 3
75	Bernice	962	up 2
76	Rosa	903	down 2
77	Lula	894	down 4
78	Ann	880	up 6
79	Ada	878	down 1
80	Eleanor	868	down 1
81	Maggie	805	down 1
82	Dora	788	down 1
83	Kathryn	787	up 3
84	Ellen	774	up 1
85	Daisy	772	down 3
86	Maude	757	down 3
87	Violet	755	up 6
88	Doris	736	up 7
89	Georgia	736	up 5
90	Lois	727	up 2
91	Betty	707	up 7
92	Sadie	703	down 3
93	Nora	698	down 6
94	Marguerite	684	down 3
95	Susie	662	down 5
96	Marjorie	639	up 16
97	Anne	631	up 3
98	Hilda	629	down 10
99	Lola	624	up 5
100	Opal	621	up 6

Top boys' names, 1904
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1903
1	John	8,108	same
2	William	6,416	same
3	James	5,855	same
4	George	4,219	same
5	Robert	3,414	up 2
6	Charles	3,406	down 1
7	Joseph	3,291	down 1
8	Frank	2,799	same
9	Edward	2,335	same
10	Henry	2,085	up 1
11	Thomas	2,057	down 1
12	Walter	1,873	same
13	Harry	1,722	same
14	Willie	1,675	same
15	Arthur	1,495	same
16	Albert	1,453	same
17	Clarence	1,310	same
18	Fred	1,223	same
19	Paul	1,194	same
20	Harold	1,186	same
21	Roy	1,123	up 1
22	Raymond	1,093	down 1
23	Joe	959	up 1
24	Richard	957	up 2
25	Carl	953	down 2
26	Louis	936	down 1
27	Jack	908	up 1
28	Ralph	899	up 1
29	Earl	854	down 2
30	Theodore	834	up 6
31	David	817	up 2
32	Ernest	749	down 2
33	Charlie	739	down 1
34	Samuel	727	down 3
35	Howard	726	up 2
36	Francis	686	down 1
37	Herbert	680	down 3
38	Lawrence	662	up 5
39	Elmer	620	up 1
40	Sam	603	up 1
41	Alfred	600	down 2
42	Leo	552	down 4
43	Andrew	546	down 1
44	Eugene	541	same
45	Lee	532	same
46	Leonard	508	up 3
47	Herman	497	up 1
48	Russell	473	up 8
49	Daniel	472	up 1
50	Michael	462	down 3
51	Clyde	457	up 1
52	Floyd	446	down 6
53	Jesse	443	up 4
54	Oscar	442	down 3
55	Ray	432	same
56	Anthony	422	down 2
57	Kenneth	414	up 10
58	Donald	413	up 2
59	Lewis	402	up 6
60	Leroy	401	up 4
61	Lester	398	down 8
62	Peter	395	down 4
63	Frederick	390	same
64	Edwin	388	down 2
65	Stanley	371	down 6
66	Clifford	361	down 5
67	Cecil	359	down 1
68	Benjamin	358	up 1
69	Chester	355	down 1
70	Claude	337	up 1
71	Martin	334	up 6
72	Bernard	326	up 7
73	Lloyd	324	down 1
74	Tom	318	down 1
75	Eddie	315	down 5
76	Jessie	313	up 2
77	Norman	305	up 9
78	Alton	302	up 112
79	Harvey	300	down 5
80	Edgar	299	up 2
81	Will	287	down 6
82	Luther	286	down 2
83	Ben	282	down 2
84	Johnnie	267	up 3
85	Jim	266	down 1
86	Philip	266	down 1
87	Homer	256	down 4
88	Alvin	247	up 2
89	Jacob	243	up 14
90	Leon	241	down 14
91	Leslie	236	down 2
92	Melvin	234	down 4
93	Milton	230	down 1
94	Roosevelt	230	up 4
95	Everett	229	same
96	Allen	228	down 5
97	Patrick	226	down 3
98	Victor	218	up 1
99	Glenn	217	down 2
100	Virgil	211	up 13

Biggest climbers in 1904

The names that gained the most ground within the top 1,000 compared with 1903.

Girls

Erie: up 350 places, from 995th to 645th
Onie: up 347 places, from 890th to 543rd
Odell: up 311 places, from 961st to 650th
Pearline: up 285 places, from 923rd to 638th
Leda: up 284 places, from 800th to 516th
Dicie: up 257 places, from 988th to 731st
Mallie: up 249 places, from 802nd to 553rd
Martina: up 247 places, from 854th to 607th
Verlie: up 236 places, from 835th to 599th
Enola: up 236 places, from 993rd to 757th

Boys

Tillman: up 412 places, from 998th to 586th
Pasquale: up 407 places, from 895th to 488th
Marlin: up 396 places, from 979th to 583rd
Dorothy: up 388 places, from 932nd to 544th
Ocie: up 382 places, from 988th to 606th
Giles: up 355 places, from 951st to 596th
Evert: up 352 places, from 945th to 593rd
Sammie: up 341 places, from 690th to 349th
Oral: up 314 places, from 989th to 675th
Casper: up 304 places, from 922nd to 618th

New to the top 1,000 in 1904

Girls

Dell, 631st (back after dropping out)
Amber, 641st (back after dropping out)
Ivory, 674th (back after dropping out)
Alfreda, 683rd (back after dropping out)
Electa, 714th (back after dropping out)
Eloisa, 734th (back after dropping out)
Anona, 755th (its first time ever)
Fairy, 759th (back after dropping out)
Augustine, 778th (back after dropping out)
Ines, 787th (back after dropping out)

Boys

Washington, 514th (back after dropping out)
Adelbert, 515th (back after dropping out)
Golden, 546th (back after dropping out)
Hunter, 550th (back after dropping out)
Fernando, 573rd (back after dropping out)
Mac, 581st (back after dropping out)
Manley, 582nd (back after dropping out)
Bradley, 588th (back after dropping out)
Caesar, 589th (back after dropping out)
Edison, 621st (back after dropping out)

How spread out were names in 1904?

The ten most popular girls' names went to 20% of the girls counted in 1904, and the top ten boys' names to 32.7% of the boys. In 1884, those shares were 23.1% for girls and 41.2% for boys.

Source: Social Security Administration, national baby name data, data through 2025. Names given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year aren't published, so totals are a little lower than actual births.