Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1912

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,709
2	Joseph	2,250
3	William	1,923
4	Charles	1,336
5	George	1,284
6	James	1,257
7	Frank	1,211
8	Edward	1,140
9	Robert	1,038
10	Anthony	738
11	Thomas	732
12	Louis	722
13	Harry	675
14	Arthur	647
15	Harold	603
16	Henry	587
17	Michael	538
18	Walter	519
19	Albert	495
20	Samuel	458
21	Irving	446
22	David	436
23	Paul	399
24	Francis	385
25	Richard	383

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Raymond	377
27	Jack	376
28	Vincent	366
29	Peter	357
30	Alfred	351
31	Sidney	334
32	Ralph	332
33	Bernard	328
34	Milton	320
35	Donald	309
35	Philip	309
37	Frederick	303
38	Herbert	296
38	Morris	296
40	Stanley	293
41	Fred	287
42	Howard	281
43	Max	255
44	Daniel	250
45	Carl	246
46	Benjamin	235
47	Lawrence	233
48	Abraham	228
49	Kenneth	223
50	Salvatore	220
51	Leonard	218
52	Leo	216
52	Nicholas	216
54	Herman	204
55	Andrew	198
56	Nathan	191
57	Theodore	188
58	Sam	185
58	Stephen	185
60	Eugene	175
61	Martin	172
62	Alexander	167
63	Julius	161
64	Ernest	159
65	Hyman	158
66	Norman	155
67	Edwin	151
68	Jacob	144
69	Murray	140
70	Dominick	138
71	Angelo	136
72	Victor	133
73	Clarence	130
74	Leon	123
75	Jerome	119
76	Lester	118
77	Gerald	115
78	Earl	109
79	Sol	107
80	Clifford	97
80	Maurice	97
82	Lewis	95
83	Chester	94
84	Solomon	93
85	Isidore	92
86	Patrick	84
87	Arnold	80
87	Roy	80
87	Seymour	80
90	Edmund	74
91	Gordon	71
91	Russell	71
93	Elmer	68
93	Emanuel	68
93	Oscar	68
96	Matthew	65
97	Meyer	63
97	Saul	63
99	Carmine	62
100	Aaron	61