Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1929

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,253
2	Robert	5,446
3	William	4,235
4	Joseph	3,903
5	James	3,218
6	Richard	3,167
7	George	2,503
8	Edward	2,297
9	Charles	2,277
10	Donald	2,263
11	Frank	2,023
12	Thomas	1,928
13	Anthony	1,493
14	Arthur	1,261
15	Raymond	1,136
16	Paul	1,075
17	Walter	1,060
18	Harold	1,052
19	David	1,050
20	Louis	976
21	Michael	948
22	Herbert	930
23	Peter	913
24	Albert	904
25	Stanley	880

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Eugene	849
27	Vincent	818
28	Francis	798
29	Kenneth	794
30	Henry	792
31	Bernard	740
32	Jack	735
33	Alfred	710
34	Leonard	698
35	Gerald	689
36	Ralph	684
37	Daniel	681
38	Harry	657
39	Howard	619
40	Norman	617
41	Lawrence	613
42	Martin	590
43	Fred	586
44	Philip	553
45	Frederick	509
46	Carl	501
47	Salvatore	497
48	Marvin	431
48	Ronald	431
50	Nicholas	390
51	Andrew	377
52	Arnold	371
53	Theodore	364
54	Edwin	363
55	Ernest	345
56	Jerome	336
57	Irving	331
58	Jerry	330
59	Seymour	311
60	Stephen	301
61	Samuel	300
62	Melvin	284
63	Victor	283
64	Leo	279
65	Patrick	277
66	Irwin	270
67	Milton	251
67	Roy	251
69	Angelo	248
70	Alan	246
71	Roger	240
72	Alvin	233
73	Warren	230
74	Dominick	227
74	Gordon	227
76	Earl	221
77	Murray	218
78	Leon	213
79	Gerard	211
80	Harvey	209
81	Herman	207
82	Clarence	198
83	Sam	195
84	Douglas	194
85	Russell	191
86	Rudolph	188
87	Gilbert	187
87	Sidney	187
89	Clifford	186
90	Benjamin	184
91	Allen	171
91	Morton	171
93	Bruce	168
94	Alexander	167
95	Sheldon	165
96	Allan	149
97	Matthew	148
98	Maurice	145
99	Leroy	144
100	Morris	142