Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1928

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,354
2	Robert	5,524
3	William	4,415
4	Joseph	4,172
5	James	3,309
6	Richard	3,072
7	George	2,500
8	Charles	2,478
9	Edward	2,422
10	Donald	2,183
11	Frank	2,137
12	Thomas	1,964
13	Anthony	1,509
14	Arthur	1,339
15	Harold	1,105
16	Raymond	1,097
17	Walter	1,093
18	Paul	1,052
19	Albert	1,050
20	Michael	1,027
21	Alfred	1,008
22	Eugene	1,003
23	Louis	972
24	David	953
25	Herbert	916

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Stanley	896
27	Henry	867
28	Peter	862
29	Vincent	851
30	Kenneth	825
31	Francis	798
32	Bernard	794
33	Jack	748
34	Leonard	726
35	Daniel	688
36	Howard	672
37	Ralph	666
38	Harry	651
39	Lawrence	635
40	Gerald	633
41	Norman	621
42	Martin	619
43	Philip	589
44	Fred	583
45	Frederick	518
46	Salvatore	512
47	Marvin	460
48	Carl	446
49	Ronald	416
50	Theodore	410
51	Nicholas	402
52	Seymour	381
53	Edwin	378
54	Andrew	360
55	Irving	350
56	Ernest	339
57	Arnold	337
58	Jerome	335
59	Melvin	316
60	Samuel	311
61	Victor	290
62	Angelo	284
62	Leo	284
64	Stephen	276
65	Irwin	274
66	Murray	272
67	Roy	270
68	Jerry	268
69	Dominick	257
70	Patrick	255
71	Leon	252
72	Sidney	251
73	Milton	240
74	Earl	239
75	Gordon	237
76	Warren	232
77	Roger	230
78	Herman	221
79	Alan	220
80	Alvin	219
80	Clarence	219
82	Rudolph	209
83	Gerard	206
84	Alexander	201
85	Clifford	200
86	Harvey	197
87	Gilbert	195
88	Benjamin	190
89	Sam	182
90	Russell	181
91	Douglas	179
92	Morris	171
93	Bruce	165
94	Edmund	164
95	Lewis	159
96	Morton	157
97	Allen	156
98	Chester	153
99	Lester	152
100	Sheldon	150