Most popular boys’ names in Illinois, 1923

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	4,162
2	John	3,347
3	William	3,008
4	James	2,225
5	Charles	1,686
6	George	1,649
7	Edward	1,616
8	Joseph	1,393
9	Richard	1,348
10	Donald	1,195
11	Frank	1,021
12	Raymond	939
13	Harold	920
14	Paul	811
15	Walter	808
16	Thomas	752
17	Kenneth	689
18	Arthur	651
19	Eugene	617
20	Jack	596
21	Harry	540
22	Ralph	529
23	Henry	527
24	Albert	524
25	Howard	456

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Leonard	439
27	Carl	397
28	Stanley	396
29	Clarence	393
30	Louis	392
31	Lawrence	387
32	Earl	379
33	David	363
34	Warren	346
35	Roy	332
36	Fred	325
37	Chester	323
38	Francis	315
39	Anthony	305
40	Edwin	297
41	Bernard	293
42	Norman	282
43	Russell	268
44	Leo	260
45	Elmer	256
46	Joe	255
46	Melvin	255
48	Marvin	248
49	Gerald	246
50	Peter	245
51	Alfred	235
52	Herbert	231
53	Wayne	225
54	Michael	212
55	Daniel	211
56	Leroy	210
57	Ray	197
58	Ernest	194
59	Vernon	193
60	Theodore	190
61	Glenn	186
62	Frederick	180
63	Andrew	179
64	Dale	176
65	Floyd	174
66	Martin	172
67	Lloyd	169
68	Clifford	157
69	Lester	150
70	Gordon	149
71	Herman	147
72	Sam	146
73	Victor	140
74	Philip	135
75	Vincent	134
76	Maurice	133
77	Samuel	129
78	Virgil	123
79	Jerome	122
79	Wallace	122
79	Willard	122
82	Wilbur	118
83	Alvin	117
84	Roger	116
85	Edmund	115
86	Lewis	113
87	Everett	110
87	Leon	110
87	Marion	110
87	Steve	110
91	Clyde	109
92	Milton	108
93	Leslie	107
94	Arnold	103
95	Emil	102
96	Glen	100
97	Jesse	96
98	Billy	94
98	Rudolph	94
100	Orville	93