Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1919

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	5,764
2	Joseph	3,899
3	William	3,835
4	Robert	3,275
5	Edward	2,393
6	James	2,372
7	George	2,351
8	Charles	2,252
9	Frank	2,175
10	Thomas	1,447
11	Harold	1,371
12	Anthony	1,296
13	Walter	1,232
14	Arthur	1,201
15	Richard	1,175
16	Louis	1,087
17	Henry	1,037
18	Albert	970
19	Raymond	950
20	Michael	939
21	Harry	914
22	Paul	891
23	Donald	845
24	Francis	829
25	Bernard	820

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Stanley	781
27	David	722
28	Vincent	720
29	Peter	713
30	Jack	692
31	Irving	691
32	Alfred	686
33	Herbert	614
34	Howard	598
35	Ralph	571
36	Philip	549
37	Leonard	545
38	Daniel	541
39	Lawrence	533
40	Frederick	522
41	Kenneth	506
42	Eugene	500
43	Milton	483
44	Fred	480
45	Theodore	475
46	Samuel	473
47	Salvatore	472
48	Sidney	443
49	Martin	429
50	Norman	420
51	Seymour	404
52	Morris	397
53	Victor	379
54	Leo	378
55	Carl	368
56	Nicholas	363
57	Andrew	357
58	Abraham	339
59	Stephen	329
60	Edwin	320
61	Benjamin	316
62	Ernest	308
63	Gerald	307
63	Herman	307
65	Sam	298
66	Angelo	286
67	Murray	275
68	Chester	274
69	Leon	259
70	Jerome	238
71	Nathan	236
72	Dominick	228
73	Earl	227
73	Julius	227
75	Alexander	225
76	Max	222
77	Jacob	216
78	Clarence	203
79	Clifford	195
80	Russell	193
81	Hyman	185
81	Lester	185
83	Arnold	183
83	Roy	183
85	Warren	181
86	Melvin	171
87	Patrick	167
88	Gordon	165
89	Lewis	151
90	Douglas	149
91	Edmund	147
92	Matthew	145
93	Alex	144
94	Elmer	140
94	Marvin	140
94	Morton	140
97	Gerard	137
97	Tony	137
99	Isidore	135
99	Rocco	135