Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1925

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,133
2	Robert	5,092
3	William	4,629
4	Joseph	4,088
5	James	3,014
6	Edward	2,687
7	George	2,518
8	Charles	2,396
9	Richard	2,357
10	Frank	2,306
11	Thomas	1,851
12	Donald	1,674
13	Anthony	1,419
14	Arthur	1,376
15	Harold	1,317
16	Walter	1,173
17	Raymond	1,151
18	Paul	1,043
19	Louis	1,014
20	Albert	992
21	Henry	988
22	Michael	961
23	Stanley	955
24	David	889
25	Bernard	880

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Vincent	870
27	Francis	852
28	Jack	808
29	Harry	804
30	Peter	780
31	Eugene	778
32	Alfred	759
33	Daniel	734
34	Howard	730
35	Kenneth	720
35	Ralph	720
37	Leonard	714
38	Herbert	705
39	Lawrence	591
40	Norman	579
41	Philip	565
42	Fred	544
43	Martin	527
44	Irving	522
45	Salvatore	520
46	Frederick	519
47	Gerald	517
48	Seymour	438
49	Nicholas	404
50	Theodore	402
51	Carl	393
52	Edwin	386
53	Jerome	372
54	Andrew	368
55	Ernest	367
56	Milton	362
57	Samuel	359
58	Leo	340
59	Murray	321
60	Marvin	320
61	Warren	306
62	Leon	303
63	Melvin	302
64	Victor	297
65	Angelo	294
66	Sidney	293
67	Stephen	282
68	Earl	275
69	Dominick	272
70	Roy	258
71	Irwin	254
72	Arnold	253
73	Clarence	242
73	Sam	242
75	Morris	239
76	Benjamin	229
77	Russell	228
78	Alvin	222
79	Clifford	218
80	Gordon	211
81	Herman	210
82	Patrick	206
83	Chester	201
83	Jerry	201
85	Alexander	188
86	Roger	187
87	Gerard	179
88	Abraham	177
88	Calvin	177
90	Morton	175
91	Lester	172
92	Julius	168
93	Douglas	166
94	Harvey	158
94	Matthew	158
96	Alan	157
97	Edmund	152
97	Vito	152
99	Mario	148
100	Jacob	142