Most popular boys’ names in Illinois, 1954

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	5,696
2	Robert	4,949
3	James	4,894
4	John	4,777
5	David	4,305
6	William	3,359
7	Richard	3,276
8	Thomas	3,136
9	Steven	2,413
10	Mark	2,403
11	Gary	2,079
12	Charles	1,745
13	Joseph	1,681
14	Donald	1,586
15	Ronald	1,568
16	Daniel	1,567
17	Kenneth	1,485
18	Paul	1,391
19	Gregory	1,305
20	Jeffrey	1,238
21	Dennis	1,206
22	Larry	1,195
23	Kevin	1,121
24	Edward	1,109
25	Stephen	1,071

Rank	Name	Babies
26	George	935
27	Timothy	929
28	Terry	877
29	Bruce	849
30	Lawrence	758
31	Patrick	744
32	Scott	727
33	Anthony	699
34	Douglas	693
35	Frank	649
36	Roger	637
37	Randy	621
38	Raymond	588
39	Alan	573
40	Jerry	565
41	Keith	524
42	Gerald	523
43	Brian	521
44	Peter	502
45	Dale	469
46	Randall	450
47	Wayne	443
48	Craig	441
49	Martin	398
50	Carl	394
51	Walter	379
52	Danny	372
53	Philip	371
54	Stanley	369
55	Glenn	348
56	Ricky	340
57	Jack	336
58	Ralph	335
59	Arthur	328
60	Russell	327
61	Rodney	308
62	Harold	303
63	Andrew	283
64	Henry	280
65	Phillip	276
66	Jeffery	275
67	Eugene	271
68	Christopher	268
69	Roy	265
70	Leonard	249
70	Steve	249
72	Allen	247
72	Howard	247
74	Louis	244
75	Frederick	241
76	Barry	236
77	Bradley	233
78	Micheal	230
79	Jerome	226
80	Albert	221
80	Eric	221
82	Rick	216
82	Willie	216
84	Terrence	213
85	Curtis	212
86	Harry	206
87	Lee	197
88	Jay	196
88	Samuel	196
90	Bernard	193
90	Darrell	193
90	Theodore	193
93	Dean	189
94	Victor	188
95	Fred	185
96	Kim	183
97	Jon	176
98	Kurt	172
99	Norman	171
100	Melvin	170