Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1918

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,058
2	Joseph	4,319
3	William	4,040
4	Robert	3,293
5	Charles	2,547
6	Edward	2,543
7	James	2,507
8	George	2,474
9	Frank	2,385
10	Thomas	1,506
11	Harold	1,427
12	Arthur	1,422
13	Anthony	1,344
14	Walter	1,306
15	Louis	1,194
16	Richard	1,141
17	Henry	1,099
18	Michael	1,073
19	Harry	1,044
20	Albert	996
21	Raymond	945
22	Francis	927
23	Donald	879
24	Paul	861
25	Stanley	846

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Peter	837
27	Vincent	796
28	Bernard	794
29	Jack	738
30	David	727
31	Irving	715
32	Alfred	703
33	Ralph	666
34	Howard	611
35	Herbert	602
36	Philip	591
37	Kenneth	571
38	Leonard	554
39	Samuel	549
40	Frederick	547
41	Daniel	546
42	Milton	533
43	Sidney	526
44	Eugene	515
45	Lawrence	502
46	Salvatore	474
47	Victor	457
48	Morris	440
49	Leo	437
50	Fred	434
51	Nicholas	432
52	Carl	429
53	Martin	421
54	Theodore	415
55	Norman	397
56	Andrew	395
57	Abraham	357
58	Benjamin	347
59	Edwin	331
60	Sam	329
61	Stephen	326
62	Seymour	321
63	Ernest	318
64	Chester	300
65	Max	293
66	Gerald	287
67	Jerome	284
68	Leon	280
69	Herman	279
70	Julius	274
71	Dominick	273
72	Angelo	268
73	Clarence	262
74	Alexander	261
75	Earl	258
76	Murray	255
77	Nathan	246
78	Jacob	218
79	Hyman	212
80	Clifford	210
81	Lester	203
82	Arnold	198
83	Gordon	195
83	Patrick	195
85	Roy	191
86	Russell	187
87	Matthew	174
88	Melvin	169
89	Warren	165
90	Sol	162
91	Douglas	161
92	Lewis	159
93	Edmund	158
94	Solomon	154
95	Maurice	153
96	Gerard	149
96	Jerry	149
98	Elmer	145
99	Isidore	144
100	Morton	143