Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1921

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,036
2	William	4,271
3	Robert	4,255
4	Joseph	4,195
5	James	2,816
6	George	2,613
7	Edward	2,544
8	Charles	2,450
9	Frank	2,355
10	Richard	1,558
11	Thomas	1,554
12	Anthony	1,478
13	Harold	1,393
14	Arthur	1,363
15	Walter	1,251
16	Donald	1,187
17	Raymond	1,083
18	Henry	1,080
19	Louis	1,049
20	Michael	1,046
21	Albert	966
22	Paul	963
23	Harry	922
24	Bernard	884
25	Stanley	841

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Vincent	824
27	Francis	815
28	Peter	787
29	Jack	786
30	David	747
31	Herbert	706
32	Alfred	700
33	Howard	699
34	Ralph	685
35	Leonard	647
36	Irving	646
37	Eugene	644
38	Kenneth	638
39	Frederick	586
40	Lawrence	584
41	Philip	576
42	Daniel	574
43	Warren	573
44	Fred	514
45	Norman	503
45	Samuel	503
47	Martin	500
48	Seymour	480
49	Salvatore	459
50	Nicholas	454
51	Carl	429
52	Leo	422
53	Theodore	417
54	Milton	414
55	Sidney	410
56	Andrew	380
57	Edwin	370
58	Morris	357
59	Gerald	339
60	Stephen	338
61	Sam	329
62	Ernest	322
63	Murray	317
64	Angelo	315
64	Jerome	315
64	Leon	315
67	Benjamin	298
68	Abraham	293
69	Herman	279
70	Alexander	273
71	Chester	268
72	Dominick	266
73	Earl	259
74	Victor	255
75	Clarence	254
76	Arnold	233
77	Roy	225
78	Gordon	224
79	Clifford	209
80	Julius	206
81	Patrick	199
82	Nathan	194
83	Russell	193
84	Melvin	192
85	Max	186
86	Jacob	183
87	Gerard	180
88	Marvin	175
88	Morton	175
90	Lester	161
91	Lewis	160
92	Matthew	153
93	Tony	149
94	Edmund	148
94	Vito	148
96	Alvin	145
97	Lloyd	144
98	Douglas	140
98	Elmer	140
98	Hyman	140
98	Maurice	140