Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1911

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	1,624
2	Joseph	1,269
3	William	1,122
4	George	782
5	James	750
6	Charles	733
7	Frank	728
8	Edward	646
9	Robert	526
10	Thomas	444
11	Louis	420
12	Harry	415
13	Anthony	410
14	Harold	368
15	Michael	353
16	Arthur	322
17	Henry	301
18	Albert	286
19	Walter	279
20	Jack	263
21	Irving	258
22	Samuel	238
23	Richard	233
24	David	228
25	Paul	216

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Francis	212
27	Alfred	209
28	Philip	193
29	Peter	189
30	Raymond	184
31	Frederick	178
32	Morris	177
33	Benjamin	172
34	Sidney	171
35	Ralph	166
36	Bernard	165
37	Vincent	160
38	Fred	155
39	Abraham	146
40	Max	141
41	Milton	140
42	Donald	138
42	Howard	138
44	Stanley	137
45	Sam	135
46	Herbert	133
46	Kenneth	133
48	Leo	124
49	Martin	121
50	Daniel	118
51	Carl	115
52	Nathan	113
53	Salvatore	110
54	Lawrence	109
55	Nicholas	105
56	Andrew	103
57	Alexander	101
57	Herman	101
59	Stephen	98
60	Leonard	97
60	Theodore	97
62	Edwin	96
63	Clarence	92
64	Eugene	90
65	Julius	86
66	Angelo	78
67	Ernest	77
68	Hyman	75
68	Murray	75
70	Victor	73
71	Leon	72
72	Patrick	71
73	Norman	69
74	Gerald	67
75	Jacob	64
76	Dominick	59
77	Lester	58
78	Roy	57
79	Earl	56
80	Jerome	54
81	Lewis	53
81	Solomon	53
83	Chester	50
83	Matthew	50
85	Edmund	48
86	Maurice	47
87	Sol	46
88	Emanuel	44
89	Warren	43
90	Clifford	41
91	Ben	40
91	Isidore	40
91	Meyer	40
94	Oscar	39
95	Elmer	38
95	Pasquale	38
97	Alex	37
98	Gordon	36
98	Russell	36
100	Antonio	35
100	Carmine	35