Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1923

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,228
2	Robert	4,700
3	William	4,406
4	Joseph	4,208
5	James	2,690
6	Edward	2,637
7	George	2,595
8	Charles	2,421
9	Frank	2,304
10	Richard	1,819
11	Thomas	1,788
12	Anthony	1,455
13	Donald	1,426
14	Harold	1,414
15	Arthur	1,334
16	Walter	1,194
17	Raymond	1,104
18	Albert	1,045
19	Louis	1,035
20	Michael	1,004
21	Henry	996
22	Paul	973
23	Stanley	913
24	Harry	897
25	Bernard	886

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Francis	830
26	Vincent	830
28	David	815
29	Jack	760
29	Peter	760
31	Alfred	739
32	Herbert	716
33	Eugene	709
34	Ralph	693
35	Kenneth	686
36	Howard	672
37	Lawrence	661
38	Irving	643
39	Daniel	635
40	Leonard	632
41	Philip	581
42	Fred	555
43	Martin	536
44	Norman	531
45	Salvatore	528
46	Frederick	527
47	Seymour	514
48	Theodore	461
49	Samuel	439
50	Nicholas	418
51	Edwin	415
52	Warren	411
53	Leo	398
54	Gerald	390
55	Carl	388
56	Milton	386
57	Andrew	381
58	Jerome	364
59	Sidney	356
60	Angelo	351
61	Morris	343
62	Murray	334
63	Ernest	311
64	Sam	309
65	Stephen	304
66	Leon	302
67	Dominick	287
68	Chester	275
69	Victor	264
70	Benjamin	262
71	Melvin	258
72	Herman	253
73	Alexander	249
74	Arnold	248
75	Abraham	241
76	Clarence	237
77	Marvin	236
78	Earl	232
79	Lester	218
80	Gordon	212
81	Roy	201
82	Morton	196
83	Patrick	191
84	Clifford	190
85	Julius	188
86	Russell	183
87	Irwin	180
88	Rudolph	177
89	Alvin	176
90	Gerard	174
91	Nathan	171
92	Edmund	170
93	Jerry	169
94	Jacob	159
95	Matthew	157
96	Max	156
96	Sol	156
98	Lewis	154
98	Maurice	154
100	Roger	151