Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1922

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,105
2	Robert	4,488
3	Joseph	4,248
4	William	4,247
5	James	2,749
6	George	2,601
7	Edward	2,542
8	Frank	2,383
9	Charles	2,343
10	Richard	1,754
11	Thomas	1,702
12	Anthony	1,421
13	Arthur	1,395
14	Harold	1,385
15	Donald	1,295
16	Walter	1,236
17	Louis	1,068
18	Michael	1,039
19	Raymond	1,031
20	Henry	1,020
21	Albert	1,003
22	Paul	933
23	Stanley	919
24	Harry	879
25	Vincent	852

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Francis	837
27	Bernard	820
28	Jack	809
29	David	800
30	Peter	790
31	Howard	733
32	Herbert	713
33	Alfred	695
34	Kenneth	691
35	Leonard	670
36	Eugene	657
37	Irving	639
37	Ralph	639
39	Daniel	628
40	Lawrence	613
41	Philip	605
42	Martin	549
43	Norman	533
44	Frederick	525
45	Seymour	515
46	Fred	493
47	Salvatore	492
48	Theodore	448
49	Samuel	436
50	Nicholas	424
51	Warren	405
52	Gerald	402
53	Edwin	387
54	Milton	383
55	Leo	380
56	Carl	378
57	Andrew	375
58	Sidney	374
59	Murray	368
60	Stephen	325
61	Ernest	321
62	Angelo	315
63	Morris	313
64	Jerome	310
64	Leon	310
66	Benjamin	305
67	Sam	303
68	Victor	279
69	Dominick	273
70	Herman	267
71	Chester	264
72	Abraham	260
73	Earl	249
74	Arnold	240
75	Alexander	230
76	Clarence	223
77	Melvin	220
78	Clifford	215
79	Marvin	213
80	Roy	209
81	Russell	207
82	Julius	205
83	Lester	193
83	Morton	193
85	Patrick	186
86	Gordon	180
87	Nathan	173
88	Jacob	159
88	Jerry	159
88	Matthew	159
91	Gerard	158
92	Rocco	157
93	Floyd	152
94	Maurice	151
95	Edmund	150
95	Hyman	150
95	Max	150
98	Carmine	146
99	Douglas	145
100	Alvin	144