Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1915

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	5,180
2	Joseph	3,764
3	William	3,666
4	Charles	2,315
5	Robert	2,242
6	Frank	2,215
6	James	2,215
8	Edward	2,186
9	George	2,178
10	Anthony	1,297
11	Thomas	1,289
12	Harold	1,201
13	Louis	1,188
14	Arthur	1,086
15	Walter	1,046
16	Harry	1,017
17	Michael	1,016
18	Henry	974
19	Richard	872
20	Albert	868
21	Paul	850
22	Francis	787
23	Vincent	716
24	Raymond	710
25	David	687

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Peter	685
27	Irving	667
28	Stanley	662
29	Bernard	659
30	Jack	652
31	Samuel	635
32	Donald	629
33	Alfred	611
34	Ralph	549
35	Philip	536
36	Frederick	531
37	Herbert	528
38	Sidney	526
39	Howard	520
40	Daniel	503
41	Milton	486
42	Kenneth	467
43	Morris	463
44	Fred	460
45	Leonard	437
46	Lawrence	432
47	Nicholas	415
48	Carl	411
49	Salvatore	397
50	Leo	396
51	Abraham	393
52	Benjamin	386
53	Sam	376
54	Eugene	370
55	Martin	354
56	Andrew	348
57	Stephen	338
58	Ernest	326
59	Edwin	317
60	Theodore	315
61	Norman	304
61	Victor	304
63	Max	299
64	Alexander	297
65	Nathan	291
66	Herman	287
67	Angelo	274
68	Julius	262
69	Dominick	257
70	Leon	249
71	Hyman	238
72	Gerald	231
73	Clarence	222
74	Chester	216
75	Jacob	215
76	Jerome	206
77	Seymour	190
78	Earl	183
79	Clifford	180
79	Murray	180
81	Lester	171
82	Russell	163
83	Roy	155
84	Lewis	154
85	Arnold	153
86	Isidore	150
87	Matthew	149
88	Elmer	146
89	Patrick	143
90	Maurice	137
91	Sol	134
92	Pasquale	133
93	Edmund	132
94	Gordon	128
95	Floyd	126
96	Rocco	124
97	Solomon	123
97	Warren	123
99	Gerard	122
100	Lloyd	119