Most popular boys’ names in Illinois, 1957

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	6,230
2	James	5,041
3	John	4,813
4	Robert	4,644
5	David	4,480
6	Mark	3,370
7	William	3,205
8	Thomas	3,033
9	Richard	2,906
10	Steven	2,619
11	Kevin	1,822
12	Joseph	1,819
13	Daniel	1,789
14	Charles	1,740
15	Ronald	1,658
16	Kenneth	1,584
17	Donald	1,574
18	Gary	1,552
19	Jeffrey	1,539
20	Gregory	1,469
21	Timothy	1,463
22	Paul	1,451
23	Scott	1,210
24	Larry	1,148
25	Edward	1,123

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Brian	1,104
27	Anthony	1,070
28	Stephen	1,010
29	Dennis	942
30	Douglas	855
31	George	853
32	Terry	822
33	Randy	818
34	Bruce	784
35	Patrick	758
36	Keith	740
37	Lawrence	686
38	Peter	647
39	Raymond	629
40	Frank	626
41	Jerry	571
42	Roger	547
43	Dale	505
44	Alan	489
45	Jeffery	484
46	Ricky	483
47	Christopher	480
48	Carl	452
49	Steve	448
50	Andrew	444
51	Gerald	438
52	Craig	425
53	Martin	409
54	Russell	403
55	Randall	401
55	Wayne	401
57	Eric	392
58	Philip	359
59	Danny	358
60	Jack	330
61	Mike	322
62	Jay	319
62	Walter	319
64	Glenn	308
65	Rodney	302
66	Stanley	296
67	Arthur	294
67	Matthew	294
69	Rick	280
70	Phillip	275
71	Jerome	272
71	Ralph	272
73	Bradley	268
74	Harold	266
75	Roy	259
76	Micheal	257
77	Dean	256
78	Albert	255
79	Leonard	249
80	Barry	248
81	Louis	244
82	Joe	240
83	Henry	239
84	Curtis	238
85	Tony	236
86	Kurt	229
87	Howard	228
88	Allen	227
89	Eugene	224
90	Willie	218
91	Samuel	215
92	Billy	214
93	Vincent	213
94	Jeff	212
94	Victor	212
96	Darrell	211
97	Tom	205
98	Jim	204
99	Frederick	196
100	Fred	195