Most popular boys’ names in Illinois, 1920

Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,373
2	John	3,036
3	William	2,591
4	James	1,914
5	Charles	1,667
6	Edward	1,665
7	George	1,503
8	Joseph	1,422
9	Frank	1,038
10	Richard	1,022
11	Harold	947
12	Raymond	908
13	Walter	906
14	Donald	804
15	Thomas	723
16	Arthur	646
17	Paul	625
18	Harry	582
19	Kenneth	571
20	Henry	544
21	Albert	509
22	Jack	500
23	Ralph	495
24	Eugene	465
25	Carl	440

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Stanley	427
27	Howard	422
28	Leonard	400
28	Louis	400
30	Clarence	399
31	Fred	394
32	Earl	381
33	Roy	374
34	Chester	367
35	Lawrence	356
36	Warren	349
37	Elmer	326
38	Russell	307
39	Edwin	298
40	Francis	297
41	Bernard	294
42	David	292
43	Anthony	291
44	Herbert	287
45	Leo	283
46	Norman	255
47	Melvin	242
48	Leroy	239
49	Peter	238
50	Joe	236
51	Alfred	223
52	Theodore	220
53	Ernest	216
54	Michael	210
55	Vernon	206
56	Andrew	200
57	Clifford	199
57	Gerald	199
57	Lester	199
60	Marvin	184
61	Floyd	168
62	Ray	163
63	Daniel	162
64	Wayne	160
65	Glenn	159
65	Lloyd	159
67	Frederick	154
68	Alvin	153
69	Herman	148
70	Victor	147
71	Martin	144
72	Wilbur	143
73	Samuel	141
74	Dale	140
75	Willard	138
76	Vincent	135
77	Philip	134
78	Sam	131
79	Milton	123
80	Clyde	122
81	Everett	121
81	Virgil	121
83	Jerome	118
84	Gordon	113
84	Steve	113
86	Lyle	112
87	Maurice	109
88	Edmund	104
89	Gilbert	103
90	Leslie	100
91	Marion	99
92	Glen	98
93	Irving	97
94	Delbert	93
95	Max	92
96	Emil	91
97	Cecil	89
97	Harvey	89
99	Stephen	88
100	Tony	87