Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1927

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,231
2	Robert	5,471
3	William	4,503
4	Joseph	4,264
5	James	3,291
6	Richard	2,889
7	George	2,635
8	Edward	2,554
9	Charles	2,478
10	Frank	2,158
11	Donald	1,981
11	Thomas	1,981
13	Anthony	1,541
14	Arthur	1,365
15	Raymond	1,233
16	Harold	1,218
17	Walter	1,140
18	Paul	1,108
19	Albert	1,066
20	Michael	1,025
21	Louis	979
22	Stanley	975
23	Henry	949
24	Eugene	938
25	Vincent	871

Rank	Name	Babies
26	David	869
27	Peter	826
28	Jack	811
29	Bernard	807
30	Kenneth	795
31	Alfred	794
32	Francis	769
33	Daniel	733
34	Leonard	731
35	Herbert	720
36	Howard	698
37	Ralph	689
38	Harry	682
39	Lawrence	632
40	Norman	622
41	Martin	611
42	Gerald	590
43	Philip	583
44	Fred	577
45	Frederick	548
46	Salvatore	547
47	Carl	463
48	Marvin	434
49	Irving	407
50	Nicholas	402
51	Theodore	385
52	Seymour	381
53	Andrew	380
54	Edwin	374
55	Ernest	373
56	Jerome	372
57	Leo	358
58	Arnold	319
59	Samuel	318
60	Milton	301
61	Angelo	299
62	Melvin	293
63	Murray	284
64	Leon	282
65	Irwin	281
66	Victor	276
67	Jerry	271
68	Ronald	269
68	Roy	269
70	Sidney	257
71	Stephen	256
72	Warren	254
73	Earl	253
74	Patrick	246
75	Rudolph	245
76	Dominick	240
77	Sam	237
78	Alvin	230
78	Roger	230
80	Harvey	221
81	Clarence	220
82	Herman	219
83	Gordon	218
84	Gerard	213
85	Benjamin	205
86	Gilbert	196
87	Russell	194
88	Alexander	191
89	Clifford	188
90	Douglas	182
91	Morton	172
92	Chester	170
93	Alan	164
93	Morris	164
95	Leroy	159
96	Allen	156
97	Mario	155
98	Floyd	146
99	Carmine	145
100	Bruce	143
100	Lloyd	143
100	Maurice	143