Most popular boys’ names in Illinois, 1955

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	5,900
2	John	4,800
3	James	4,782
4	David	4,744
5	Robert	4,719
6	William	3,378
7	Thomas	3,105
8	Richard	2,986
9	Mark	2,744
10	Steven	2,539
11	Gary	1,849
12	Daniel	1,776
13	Joseph	1,715
14	Charles	1,678
15	Donald	1,559
16	Ronald	1,530
17	Paul	1,418
18	Gregory	1,405
19	Jeffrey	1,401
20	Kenneth	1,390
21	Kevin	1,223
22	Timothy	1,199
23	Dennis	1,149
24	Edward	1,128
25	Larry	1,068

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Stephen	1,043
27	George	875
28	Anthony	854
29	Bruce	847
30	Scott	815
31	Terry	813
32	Randy	811
33	Patrick	748
34	Douglas	695
35	Brian	664
36	Lawrence	654
37	Frank	641
38	Raymond	638
39	Peter	628
40	Keith	615
41	Roger	608
42	Alan	546
43	Jerry	515
44	Gerald	452
45	Carl	449
45	Craig	449
47	Dale	431
48	Wayne	410
49	Martin	385
50	Walter	383
51	Philip	371
52	Christopher	367
53	Randall	365
54	Jeffery	359
55	Russell	341
56	Ricky	337
57	Stanley	333
58	Jack	327
59	Andrew	326
59	Danny	326
61	Arthur	322
62	Phillip	306
63	Leonard	305
64	Glenn	299
65	Ralph	283
66	Rodney	276
67	Henry	274
68	Harold	268
69	Steve	261
70	Roy	260
71	Louis	248
72	Jerome	246
73	Eugene	245
74	Barry	244
75	Eric	243
76	Micheal	239
77	Bradley	238
78	Allen	231
79	Howard	230
79	Samuel	230
81	Willie	229
82	Frederick	228
83	Darrell	226
84	Curtis	217
85	Albert	216
86	Matthew	215
87	Rick	208
88	Dean	203
89	Jon	201
90	Kim	199
91	Fred	192
92	Theodore	187
93	Lee	185
94	Kurt	184
95	Melvin	183
96	Harry	173
97	Terrence	172
98	Victor	170
99	Jay	168
100	Marvin	164