Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1917

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	5,759
2	Joseph	4,232
3	William	3,894
4	Robert	2,820
5	Charles	2,382
6	George	2,373
7	Edward	2,315
8	James	2,292
9	Frank	2,248
10	Anthony	1,388
11	Thomas	1,343
12	Arthur	1,236
13	Harold	1,224
14	Walter	1,161
15	Louis	1,153
16	Michael	1,077
17	Henry	1,069
18	Harry	1,038
19	Richard	1,007
20	Albert	933
21	Paul	889
22	Raymond	843
23	Francis	812
24	Donald	791
25	Stanley	781

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Peter	777
26	Vincent	777
28	Bernard	737
29	David	718
30	Irving	707
31	Jack	694
32	Alfred	676
33	Frederick	632
34	Herbert	622
35	Samuel	618
36	Ralph	609
37	Howard	595
38	Philip	570
39	Leonard	544
40	Daniel	540
41	Kenneth	538
42	Sidney	517
43	Fred	488
44	Milton	474
45	Lawrence	470
46	Benjamin	469
47	Carl	468
48	Eugene	449
49	Leo	440
50	Salvatore	430
51	Morris	425
52	Nicholas	403
53	Martin	401
54	Andrew	385
55	Theodore	375
56	Sam	373
57	Norman	372
58	Edwin	367
59	Abraham	351
60	Stephen	341
61	Alexander	325
62	Max	321
63	Victor	313
64	Ernest	310
65	Angelo	301
66	Seymour	291
67	Julius	283
68	Herman	272
69	Gerald	264
70	Clarence	262
71	Jerome	261
72	Chester	251
73	Nathan	249
74	Leon	239
75	Dominick	237
76	Jacob	211
77	Clifford	209
78	Murray	201
79	Gordon	192
80	Hyman	190
81	Arnold	187
82	Lester	186
83	Earl	180
84	Russell	178
85	Roy	177
86	Patrick	173
87	Solomon	158
88	Matthew	155
89	Edmund	152
89	Warren	152
91	Lewis	151
92	Maurice	150
92	Sol	150
94	Tony	145
95	Isidore	139
96	Rocco	136
97	Morton	133
98	Elmer	129
99	Alex	128
100	Emanuel	126
100	Melvin	126