Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1913

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	3,149
2	Joseph	2,517
3	William	2,271
4	Charles	1,415
5	James	1,387
6	George	1,370
7	Frank	1,340
8	Edward	1,265
9	Robert	1,153
10	Louis	838
11	Thomas	790
12	Anthony	778
13	Harry	723
14	Harold	701
15	Arthur	689
16	Michael	663
17	Henry	634
18	Walter	627
19	Albert	559
20	Francis	511
21	David	503
22	Richard	498
23	Jack	457
24	Vincent	455
25	Paul	454

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Samuel	452
27	Raymond	443
28	Peter	434
29	Irving	431
30	Alfred	388
31	Bernard	383
32	Philip	375
33	Sidney	371
34	Donald	350
35	Frederick	335
36	Stanley	332
37	Morris	320
38	Ralph	319
39	Daniel	318
39	Howard	318
41	Herbert	315
42	Fred	310
43	Milton	305
44	Benjamin	291
45	Lawrence	275
46	Nicholas	270
47	Carl	264
48	Leo	260
49	Abraham	256
50	Kenneth	255
51	Max	254
52	Leonard	240
53	Andrew	230
54	Martin	228
55	Salvatore	226
56	Herman	221
56	Stephen	221
58	Eugene	218
59	Nathan	213
60	Sam	209
61	Theodore	208
62	Alexander	201
63	Ernest	190
64	Edwin	189
65	Norman	182
66	Leon	166
67	Julius	164
68	Angelo	159
69	Dominick	157
70	Victor	153
71	Murray	147
72	Hyman	144
73	Jacob	140
74	Clarence	128
75	Jerome	121
76	Earl	117
77	Chester	115
78	Lester	114
78	Maurice	114
80	Arnold	113
81	Sol	112
82	Gerald	111
83	Clifford	110
84	Seymour	105
85	Russell	97
86	Matthew	92
87	Patrick	91
88	Edmund	89
89	Elmer	88
90	Lewis	84
91	Gordon	83
91	Isidore	83
91	Solomon	83
94	Aaron	80
95	Roy	79
96	Meyer	75
97	Vito	72
98	Emanuel	70
99	Rocco	69
100	Melvin	68