Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1937

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	6,529
2	John	5,525
3	Richard	3,773
4	William	3,587
5	James	3,481
6	Joseph	3,056
7	Thomas	2,226
8	Donald	2,083
9	Edward	1,990
10	Charles	1,971
11	George	1,827
12	David	1,819
13	Michael	1,564
14	Ronald	1,563
15	Frank	1,523
16	Anthony	1,251
17	Paul	1,224
18	Peter	1,054
19	Kenneth	918
20	Arthur	878
21	Raymond	840
22	Gerald	747
23	Walter	730
24	Daniel	720
25	Harold	659

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Lawrence	641
27	Louis	620
28	Martin	598
29	Vincent	595
30	Albert	566
31	Fred	565
32	Howard	555
33	Henry	545
34	Stanley	541
35	Stephen	539
36	Eugene	535
37	Francis	533
38	Philip	512
39	Ralph	497
40	Carl	469
41	Jack	465
42	Leonard	464
43	Frederick	449
44	Bernard	423
44	Roger	423
46	Alan	419
47	Alfred	416
48	Norman	410
49	Herbert	389
50	Patrick	382
51	Harry	368
52	Bruce	347
53	Gary	338
54	Jerry	317
55	Theodore	307
56	Andrew	296
56	Nicholas	296
58	Joel	278
59	Larry	274
60	Harvey	266
61	Salvatore	264
62	Jerome	256
63	Marvin	254
64	Arnold	251
65	Ernest	240
66	Roy	224
67	Samuel	222
68	Victor	221
69	Allen	218
70	Melvin	217
71	Douglas	213
72	Edwin	212
73	Stuart	193
74	Allan	190
75	Barry	189
76	Russell	188
77	Warren	186
78	Gerard	184
79	Dennis	177
80	Gordon	174
81	Angelo	158
82	Leon	156
83	Neil	155
84	Leo	154
85	Wayne	146
86	Jay	145
87	Sheldon	141
88	Dominick	140
89	Earl	137
90	Clifford	132
91	Irwin	131
92	Matthew	123
93	Lewis	122
94	Gilbert	119
95	Brian	117
95	Irving	117
97	Leroy	114
98	Mark	112
99	Benjamin	111
100	Alvin	109
100	Karl	109