Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1914

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	4,289
2	Joseph	3,328
3	William	2,986
4	Charles	1,854
5	George	1,839
6	Edward	1,771
7	Frank	1,751
8	James	1,743
9	Robert	1,723
10	Louis	1,070
11	Thomas	1,051
12	Anthony	1,029
13	Harold	945
14	Arthur	890
15	Harry	871
16	Walter	831
17	Henry	825
18	Michael	800
19	Albert	761
20	Richard	651
21	Paul	650
22	Samuel	614
23	Francis	610
24	Vincent	606
25	Raymond	605

Rank	Name	Babies
26	David	588
27	Irving	581
28	Jack	557
29	Peter	554
30	Alfred	537
31	Bernard	497
32	Stanley	484
33	Sidney	453
34	Donald	449
35	Ralph	440
36	Morris	438
37	Frederick	436
37	Milton	436
39	Philip	419
40	Herbert	381
41	Howard	377
42	Kenneth	376
43	Abraham	349
44	Salvatore	345
45	Daniel	338
46	Leo	336
47	Lawrence	334
48	Carl	331
48	Fred	331
50	Nicholas	328
51	Benjamin	324
52	Leonard	312
53	Max	308
54	Sam	300
55	Andrew	291
56	Stephen	276
57	Martin	272
58	Eugene	254
59	Edwin	250
60	Alexander	243
61	Theodore	242
62	Herman	239
63	Nathan	232
64	Ernest	230
65	Julius	224
66	Jacob	218
67	Norman	210
68	Dominick	205
69	Hyman	203
70	Angelo	202
71	Leon	198
72	Victor	190
73	Chester	181
74	Murray	180
75	Clarence	163
75	Gerald	163
77	Jerome	159
78	Seymour	155
79	Earl	147
80	Lester	145
81	Clifford	133
82	Russell	132
83	Lewis	131
84	Maurice	130
85	Isidore	128
86	Roy	127
87	Matthew	126
88	Sol	123
89	Edmund	122
89	Patrick	122
89	Solomon	122
92	Arnold	117
93	Elmer	115
94	Gordon	114
95	Meyer	103
96	Alex	101
97	Dominic	100
97	Emanuel	100
99	Melvin	98
100	Aaron	89
100	Floyd	89