Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1926

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,187
2	Robert	5,281
3	William	4,478
4	Joseph	4,114
5	James	3,089
6	Edward	2,582
7	George	2,550
8	Richard	2,502
9	Charles	2,408
10	Frank	2,205
11	Thomas	1,958
12	Donald	1,794
13	Anthony	1,489
14	Arthur	1,362
15	Harold	1,262
16	Walter	1,215
17	Raymond	1,164
18	Paul	1,103
19	Albert	1,017
20	Michael	989
21	Louis	980
22	Henry	961
23	Stanley	952
24	David	888
25	Vincent	850

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Eugene	848
27	Bernard	837
28	Francis	823
29	Alfred	794
30	Jack	788
31	Peter	784
32	Kenneth	744
33	Ralph	738
34	Herbert	736
35	Leonard	731
36	Harry	723
37	Daniel	677
38	Lawrence	664
39	Howard	663
40	Fred	641
41	Norman	621
42	Philip	602
43	Martin	591
44	Gerald	550
45	Salvatore	513
46	Frederick	500
47	Irving	482
48	Carl	442
49	Seymour	441
50	Theodore	400
51	Nicholas	392
52	Marvin	383
53	Edwin	371
54	Jerome	360
55	Ernest	359
55	Samuel	359
57	Murray	333
58	Andrew	327
59	Milton	315
60	Leo	307
61	Melvin	305
62	Angelo	297
63	Arnold	292
64	Victor	290
65	Sidney	270
66	Leon	261
66	Warren	261
68	Jerry	260
69	Earl	244
70	Irwin	240
71	Rudolph	236
72	Stephen	231
73	Ronald	230
74	Sam	229
75	Dominick	228
76	Herman	226
77	Patrick	222
78	Alexander	218
79	Clarence	217
80	Roy	216
81	Clifford	212
81	Morris	212
81	Roger	212
84	Russell	205
85	Gordon	203
86	Chester	201
87	Alvin	196
88	Morton	191
89	Douglas	183
90	Gerard	177
91	Lester	176
92	Benjamin	175
93	Harvey	172
94	Alan	170
95	Edmund	161
96	Julius	157
97	Abraham	156
98	Gilbert	150
99	Lewis	147
99	Maurice	147