Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1939

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	6,114
2	John	5,672
3	Richard	4,104
4	William	3,759
5	James	3,732
6	Joseph	3,068
7	Thomas	2,418
8	David	2,051
9	Michael	2,014
10	Charles	1,975
11	Edward	1,964
12	George	1,801
13	Donald	1,754
14	Ronald	1,544
15	Frank	1,449
16	Anthony	1,388
17	Peter	1,297
18	Paul	1,296
19	Kenneth	1,013
20	Raymond	846
21	Gerald	838
22	Arthur	826
23	Daniel	724
24	Lawrence	723
25	Stephen	713

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Louis	640
27	Walter	638
28	Vincent	599
29	Martin	579
30	Francis	565
31	Harold	561
32	Henry	560
33	Howard	559
34	Eugene	555
35	Albert	516
36	Gary	504
36	Philip	504
38	Fred	500
39	Carl	493
39	Roger	493
41	Stanley	489
42	Frederick	482
42	Ralph	482
44	Alan	471
45	Leonard	457
46	Bruce	427
46	Dennis	427
48	Bernard	402
49	Norman	399
50	Patrick	397
51	Jack	381
52	Harry	363
53	Herbert	349
54	Alfred	341
55	Andrew	326
56	Nicholas	325
57	Douglas	316
58	Larry	308
59	Barry	297
59	Jerry	297
61	Theodore	294
62	Joel	285
63	Wayne	270
64	Salvatore	259
65	Allen	244
65	Melvin	244
67	Harvey	238
68	Samuel	233
69	Ernest	230
70	Jerome	223
71	Arnold	212
72	Allan	210
73	Marvin	206
74	Steven	195
74	Warren	195
76	Gerard	194
77	Roy	191
78	Edwin	188
79	Russell	186
80	Victor	183
81	Leon	181
82	Gordon	180
83	Stuart	174
84	Neil	173
85	Clifford	168
86	Brian	149
87	Angelo	145
88	Earl	142
88	Jay	142
90	Timothy	134
91	Lewis	133
92	Leo	126
93	Leroy	124
93	Matthew	124
95	Mark	122
96	Dominick	121
97	Alexander	120
98	Benjamin	117
99	Irwin	108
100	Kevin	107