Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1938

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	6,477
2	John	5,630
3	Richard	4,013
4	William	3,737
5	James	3,608
6	Joseph	3,034
7	Thomas	2,393
8	Charles	2,062
9	Edward	2,019
10	David	1,936
11	Donald	1,909
12	Michael	1,850
13	George	1,769
14	Ronald	1,618
15	Frank	1,479
16	Paul	1,339
17	Anthony	1,322
18	Peter	1,229
19	Kenneth	965
20	Arthur	874
21	Raymond	859
22	Gerald	811
23	Walter	713
24	Daniel	692
25	Lawrence	667

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Stephen	658
27	Martin	639
28	Louis	638
29	Vincent	627
30	Harold	621
31	Henry	598
32	Francis	571
33	Albert	568
34	Howard	546
35	Roger	540
36	Philip	531
37	Eugene	530
38	Stanley	518
39	Carl	503
40	Frederick	485
41	Fred	479
42	Alan	457
43	Norman	452
44	Ralph	449
45	Jack	447
46	Leonard	440
47	Gary	417
48	Bruce	395
49	Bernard	388
50	Herbert	372
51	Patrick	371
52	Harry	365
53	Alfred	364
54	Andrew	314
55	Douglas	311
56	Nicholas	307
57	Jerome	304
57	Theodore	304
59	Joel	300
60	Jerry	296
61	Larry	295
62	Salvatore	273
63	Barry	265
64	Harvey	259
65	Arnold	257
66	Allan	254
67	Allen	252
68	Ernest	246
69	Dennis	244
70	Wayne	241
71	Warren	227
72	Roy	218
73	Victor	215
74	Melvin	212
75	Samuel	205
76	Gordon	204
77	Marvin	202
78	Edwin	199
79	Gerard	189
80	Russell	177
81	Stuart	175
82	Neil	164
83	Lewis	162
84	Angelo	152
85	Earl	150
86	Jay	146
87	Brian	142
87	Steven	142
89	Dominick	134
90	Leon	132
91	Sheldon	131
92	Leo	124
93	Karl	122
94	Matthew	121
95	Clifford	120
96	Clarence	119
97	Benjamin	118
98	Irwin	116
99	Ira	113
100	Leroy	112