Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1916

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	5,370
2	Joseph	3,978
3	William	3,776
4	Robert	2,438
5	George	2,351
6	Charles	2,327
7	Edward	2,264
8	Frank	2,219
9	James	2,211
10	Thomas	1,355
11	Anthony	1,257
12	Louis	1,240
13	Harold	1,202
14	Arthur	1,139
15	Walter	1,093
16	Michael	1,064
17	Henry	1,062
18	Albert	927
19	Harry	907
20	Richard	871
21	Francis	843
22	Paul	806
23	Raymond	751
24	Peter	713
25	Vincent	705

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Bernard	698
27	David	686
28	Stanley	682
29	Irving	675
30	Donald	662
31	Samuel	615
32	Alfred	602
33	Jack	588
34	Philip	585
35	Howard	575
36	Frederick	568
37	Herbert	556
38	Ralph	541
39	Sidney	499
40	Kenneth	486
41	Milton	481
42	Salvatore	475
43	Daniel	468
44	Fred	464
45	Morris	440
46	Lawrence	439
47	Leonard	431
48	Leo	422
49	Nicholas	398
50	Carl	396
51	Martin	380
52	Benjamin	376
53	Theodore	373
54	Andrew	372
55	Eugene	371
56	Abraham	365
57	Stephen	340
58	Norman	333
59	Sam	332
60	Alexander	320
61	Ernest	319
62	Edwin	306
63	Victor	303
64	Max	298
65	Herman	293
66	Angelo	289
67	Dominick	265
68	Nathan	262
69	Clarence	253
69	Julius	253
71	Leon	235
71	Seymour	235
73	Murray	233
74	Earl	230
75	Chester	228
76	Gerald	224
76	Hyman	224
78	Jerome	212
79	Clifford	208
80	Jacob	196
81	Arnold	191
82	Lester	187
83	Russell	166
84	Roy	164
85	Patrick	157
86	Matthew	151
87	Maurice	147
88	Edmund	141
89	Isidore	140
90	Solomon	136
91	Gordon	132
92	Lewis	128
93	Elmer	127
94	Alex	126
94	Melvin	126
96	Sol	124
97	Oscar	120
98	Dominic	119
99	Jerry	114
100	Warren	113