Parents considering a boy name like Noah Elijah Mason or Logan should know that their baby boy will be in good company as those names are some of the top 10 most popular boy names.

Popular male names of the 1800s. It comes from the Germanic and means fame and wolf. Rufus is a Latin baby name which means red headed. They are as follows.

Luckily the Social Security Administration publishes annual lists of the most popular names each year dating back to the 1800s. We look at 64 choices of old boy names from ones that are now popular - but not as stereotypical as the most popular Australian names like Jack and Oliver - to ones that are less boring but might be better names for your dogs or cats. This month Im looking at the top fifty male names in 1800.

While nearly all of the boys names popular. Outside of the top five many male names that were popular in the late 1800s remain common today while many of the female names are long gone. Although Rudolph is commonly associated with a flying reindeer it was a popular name in the 1800s.

A further one-in-10 were called Patrick - meaning close to a quarter of the male population had the name of John or Patrick in Ireland in 1911. The 1880s also saw the publication of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Labor Day celebrated for the first time the Brooklyn Bridge opening and the Statue of Liberty dedicated. Samuel Edward Benjamin Isaac Peter Daniel David Francis Stephen Jonathan.

Life across the country was evolving during the 1880s and so was the list of the most popular baby names. It remained one of the top 10 boys names. Finally the most popular name during the late 1800s John hit its peak in 1880 with 9655 baby boys given the name that year.

Ada and Pearl were both popular names though they declined in the following decades. The most popular 10 names in that year were John Patrick James Michael Thomas William Joseph Edward Daniel and Peter. The tables below provide links to text files of GINAP.