Top 100 baby boy names in the USA during year 1887

Year

Rank	Name	Births
1	1John	8,110
2	2William	7,470
3	3James	4,768
4	4George	4,284
5	5Charles	4,031
6	6Frank	2,883
7	7Joseph	2,456
8	8Henry	2,228
9	9Thomas	2,151
10	10Edward	2,125
11	11Robert	2,125
12	12Harry	2,057
13	13Walter	1,705
14	14Arthur	1,489
15	15Fred	1,454
16	16Albert	1,294
17	17Clarence	892
18	18Samuel	802
19	19Louis	791
20	20Roy	726
21	21Joe	685
22	22David	673
23	23Ernest	653
24	24Charlie	642
25	25Richard	622
26	26Jesse	601
27	27Willie	590
28	28Carl	588
29	29Oscar	574
30	30Will	561
31	31Daniel	557
32	32Earl	537
33	33Andrew	520
34	34Benjamin	473
35	35Alfred	468
36	36Elmer	467
37	37Frederick	464
38	38Ralph	463
39	39Sam	463
40	40Paul	449
41	41Herbert	445
42	42Howard	429
43	43Peter	421
44	44Lee	400
45	45Herman	394
46	46Claude	375
47	47Raymond	372
48	48Michael	345
49	49Lewis	343
50	50Jim	339
51	51Martin	331
52	52Tom	329
53	53Eugene	327
54	54Francis	327
55	55Clyde	320
56	56Jacob	317
57	57Edwin	310
58	58Ben	305
59	59Grover	290
60	60Lawrence	283
61	61Harold	279
62	62Ed	275
63	63Luther	267
64	64Edgar	266
65	65Harvey	262
66	66Ray	258
67	67Otto	253
68	68Jack	251
69	69Hugh	250
70	70Homer	248
71	71Guy	238
72	72Bert	237
73	73Floyd	232
74	74Leo	232
75	75Charley	221
76	76Patrick	218
77	77Ira	215
78	78Chester	207
79	79Leonard	207
80	80Oliver	203
81	81Allen	202
82	82Theodore	201
83	83August	194
84	84Isaac	194
85	85Archie	184
86	86Jessie	182
87	87Alexander	180
88	88Leroy	177
89	89Lester	168
90	90Leslie	166
91	91Clifford	165
92	92Stephen	165
93	93Julius	164
94	94Warren	163
95	95Philip	161
96	96Horace	160
97	97Bernard	159
98	98Anthony	153
99	99Leon	147
100	100Emil	146

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby names data. Coverage: Names with at least 5 births in a year.