Most popular boys’ names in Illinois, 1945

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	4,122
2	James	3,912
3	John	3,856
4	Richard	2,718
5	William	2,625
6	Thomas	2,042
7	Michael	1,939
8	David	1,818
9	Charles	1,489
10	Ronald	1,485
11	Donald	1,253
12	Larry	1,184
13	Gary	1,165
14	Kenneth	1,130
15	Dennis	1,077
16	Joseph	1,035
17	George	922
18	Edward	906
19	Paul	904
20	Roger	649
21	Daniel	646
22	Jerry	626
23	Gerald	583
24	Frank	580
25	Raymond	537

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Lawrence	499
27	Terry	492
28	Stephen	469
29	Wayne	441
30	Alan	438
31	Steven	411
32	Jack	353
33	Walter	349
34	Harold	344
35	Arthur	333
36	Bruce	320
37	Peter	319
38	Ralph	307
39	Carl	305
39	Fred	305
41	Anthony	279
42	Eugene	266
43	Patrick	265
44	Douglas	261
45	Dale	255
45	Philip	255
47	Henry	237
48	Howard	229
48	Russell	229
50	Harry	228
51	Jim	227
52	Leonard	224
53	Roy	222
54	Bill	221
55	Tom	220
56	Albert	215
57	Mike	213
58	Stanley	212
59	Mark	211
60	Phillip	209
61	Timothy	208
62	Gregory	207
63	Allen	200
64	Louis	195
65	Danny	192
65	Steve	192
67	Don	187
68	Martin	181
69	Jerome	174
70	Earl	172
71	Norman	171
72	Barry	168
73	Leroy	167
74	Joe	164
75	Glenn	163
76	Melvin	159
77	Bob	156
77	Jeffrey	156
79	Bernard	151
80	Andrew	141
81	Keith	139
81	Lee	139
81	Theodore	139
84	Frederick	138
85	Marvin	136
86	Gene	131
87	Warren	127
88	Samuel	126
89	Ernest	125
90	Victor	124
91	Clifford	123
91	Jon	123
93	Francis	122
94	Ronnie	120
95	Brian	118
96	Craig	117
96	Randall	117
98	Dan	114
99	Allan	112
99	Billy	112