Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1936

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	6,121
2	John	5,423
3	Richard	3,809
4	William	3,557
5	James	3,425
6	Joseph	3,096
7	Donald	2,380
8	Thomas	2,032
9	Edward	1,916
10	Charles	1,901
11	George	1,751
12	David	1,560
13	Frank	1,505
14	Ronald	1,504
15	Michael	1,316
16	Anthony	1,219
17	Paul	1,159
18	Peter	1,035
19	Kenneth	868
20	Arthur	846
21	Gerald	808
22	Raymond	805
23	Walter	699
24	Louis	697
25	Lawrence	640

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Harold	627
27	Daniel	599
28	Eugene	585
28	Stanley	585
30	Philip	573
31	Martin	569
32	Francis	563
33	Vincent	561
34	Henry	560
35	Fred	550
36	Albert	537
37	Howard	520
38	Ralph	513
39	Leonard	503
40	Frederick	492
41	Jack	486
42	Bernard	477
43	Carl	475
44	Norman	445
45	Stephen	433
46	Roger	426
47	Alfred	418
48	Herbert	395
49	Harry	380
50	Alan	371
51	Patrick	353
52	Bruce	307
53	Jerry	300
54	Nicholas	297
55	Theodore	287
56	Salvatore	286
57	Andrew	276
58	Gary	272
59	Ernest	264
60	Marvin	262
61	Harvey	257
62	Jerome	255
63	Arnold	253
64	Larry	251
65	Edwin	236
66	Melvin	232
67	Warren	231
68	Joel	226
69	Victor	216
70	Samuel	204
71	Roy	196
72	Douglas	195
72	Irwin	195
74	Russell	190
75	Gordon	186
76	Allen	181
77	Allan	176
78	Leon	173
79	Gerard	164
80	Earl	161
81	Sheldon	158
82	Barry	153
83	Leo	150
83	Stuart	150
85	Wayne	148
86	Dennis	147
87	Lewis	144
88	Neil	141
89	Angelo	139
90	Dominick	138
91	Matthew	137
92	Joe	133
93	Clarence	126
93	Clifford	126
95	Alvin	123
96	Jay	117
96	Milton	117
98	Sidney	113
99	Morton	111
100	Benjamin	110