Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1932

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	5,873
2	Robert	5,756
3	William	3,822
4	Richard	3,532
5	James	3,373
6	Joseph	3,356
7	Donald	2,416
8	Charles	2,236
8	George	2,236
10	Edward	2,057
11	Thomas	1,977
12	Frank	1,774
13	Anthony	1,291
14	Ronald	1,187
15	David	1,172
16	Michael	1,053
17	Paul	1,047
18	Raymond	1,015
19	Arthur	986
20	Walter	873
21	Kenneth	865
22	Harold	842
23	Peter	840
24	Louis	762
25	Albert	759

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Eugene	721
27	Stanley	719
28	Gerald	709
29	Francis	691
30	Vincent	680
31	Henry	661
32	Martin	633
33	Daniel	629
34	Herbert	627
35	Ralph	602
36	Lawrence	593
37	Alfred	588
38	Howard	579
39	Bernard	577
40	Jack	575
41	Fred	554
42	Leonard	553
43	Philip	526
44	Norman	521
45	Harry	502
46	Carl	461
47	Frederick	438
48	Salvatore	386
49	Theodore	357
50	Roger	333
51	Andrew	329
52	Marvin	328
53	Nicholas	314
54	Patrick	311
55	Alan	310
56	Jerry	308
57	Ernest	306
58	Arnold	296
58	Edwin	296
60	Stephen	292
61	Roy	258
62	Melvin	256
63	Jerome	252
64	Samuel	248
65	Harvey	234
65	Victor	234
67	Allen	233
68	Irwin	230
69	Angelo	228
70	Bruce	227
71	Douglas	215
72	Gerard	209
73	Leo	202
74	Gordon	199
75	Leon	193
76	Dominick	191
77	Morton	180
78	Clarence	178
79	Larry	177
80	Irving	176
80	Seymour	176
82	Earl	175
83	Russell	173
84	Allan	171
84	Alvin	171
86	Warren	166
87	Sheldon	164
88	Benjamin	153
88	Clifford	153
90	Sidney	147
91	Milton	146
92	Alexander	144
93	Matthew	141
94	Stuart	139
95	Gilbert	137
96	Herman	135
97	Edmund	132
97	Rudolph	132
99	Leroy	131
100	Lewis	129