Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1930

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,238
2	Robert	5,762
3	William	4,212
4	Joseph	3,825
5	Richard	3,479
6	James	3,426
7	Donald	2,496
8	Charles	2,477
9	Edward	2,382
10	George	2,337
11	Frank	1,993
12	Thomas	1,932
13	Anthony	1,489
14	Arthur	1,241
15	Raymond	1,145
16	Paul	1,126
17	David	1,082
18	Harold	1,040
19	Michael	1,013
20	Walter	999
21	Peter	924
22	Louis	916
23	Albert	909
24	Henry	876
25	Stanley	859

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Kenneth	849
27	Eugene	823
28	Herbert	782
29	Vincent	763
30	Francis	737
31	Bernard	722
31	Jack	722
33	Gerald	700
34	Alfred	689
34	Lawrence	689
36	Howard	673
37	Ralph	658
38	Norman	643
39	Harry	625
40	Martin	623
41	Daniel	619
42	Leonard	614
43	Fred	596
44	Philip	547
45	Ronald	543
46	Carl	485
47	Frederick	457
48	Salvatore	438
49	Theodore	414
50	Nicholas	394
51	Jerome	370
52	Marvin	367
53	Andrew	334
54	Ernest	332
55	Edwin	331
56	Patrick	319
57	Arnold	314
58	Jerry	290
59	Irwin	286
60	Seymour	285
61	Melvin	276
62	Stephen	274
63	Victor	271
64	Alan	270
65	Angelo	268
66	Roger	267
66	Samuel	267
68	Leo	257
69	Roy	254
70	Harvey	236
71	Earl	232
72	Irving	231
73	Alvin	229
74	Douglas	225
74	Leon	225
76	Dominick	224
77	Gordon	217
78	Allen	216
78	Gerard	216
80	Warren	207
81	Milton	205
82	Bruce	202
83	Herman	199
84	Rudolph	187
85	Murray	184
86	Clarence	179
87	Sam	174
88	Clifford	171
89	Alexander	170
90	Morton	169
90	Russell	169
92	Sidney	163
93	Sheldon	162
94	Maurice	161
95	Allan	160
96	Gilbert	156
97	Benjamin	155
98	Lewis	145
99	Edmund	141
100	Larry	139