Most popular boys’ names in New South Wales, 1957

The top 100 as published, with the number of babies given each name.

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Peter	2,741
2	John	1,762
3	David	1,655
4	Stephen	1,589
5	Michael	1,492
6	Mark	1,395
7	Robert	1,354
8	Gregory	1,277
9	Paul	1,155
10	Anthony	802
11	Wayne	790
12	Ian	756
13	Christopher	705
14	Gary	605
15	Geoffrey	566
16	Garry	491
17	Phillip	486
18	Brian	482
19	James	479
20	William	467
21	Steven	465
22	Kevin	464
23	Richard	450
24	Bruce	444
25	Colin	429

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Graham	419
27	Raymond	394
28	Alan	377
29	Kenneth	376
30	Glenn	361
31	Andrew	356
32	Ronald	318
33	Allan	316
34	Philip	310
35	Barry	308
36	Jeffrey	301
37	Neil	299
38	Rodney	290
39	Trevor	280
40	Ross	274
41	Graeme	267
42	Timothy	224
43	Warren	219
44	Craig	208
45	Leslie	193
46	Donald	191
47	Thomas	186
48	George	179
49	Martin	175
50	Keith	173
51	Malcolm	171
52	Russell	164
53	Patrick	161
54	Shane	161
55	Douglas	158
56	Glen	155
57	Terry	153
58	Joseph	150
59	Edward	144
60	Noel	128
61	Grant	127
62	Bradley	125
63	Daniel	125
64	Brett	122
65	Kim	122
66	Stuart	121
67	Terence	121
68	Dennis	120
69	Terrence	112
70	Gordon	108
71	Charles	107
72	Darryl	106
73	Roger	105
74	Eric	102
75	Scott	97
76	Tony	93
77	Francis	89
78	Matthew	89
79	Larry	88
80	Frank	85
81	Lindsay	85
82	Norman	85
83	Neville	83
84	Warwick	83
85	Alexander	82
86	Murray	81
87	Bernard	80
88	Daryl	79
89	Maxwell	77
90	Gerard	74
91	Kelvin	72
92	Adrian	71
93	Dean	71
94	Simon	70
95	Nicholas	68
96	Grahame	67
97	Victor	67
98	Lawrence	66
99	Leonard	66
100	Dale	63