Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1940

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	6,283
2	John	6,164
3	Richard	4,370
4	William	4,106
5	James	3,960
6	Joseph	3,141
7	Thomas	2,506
8	David	2,340
9	Michael	2,293
10	Charles	2,148
11	Edward	1,987
12	George	1,851
13	Ronald	1,731
14	Donald	1,727
15	Frank	1,536
16	Paul	1,450
17	Peter	1,406
18	Anthony	1,349
19	Kenneth	1,086
20	Raymond	923
21	Arthur	920
22	Stephen	909
23	Gerald	879
24	Daniel	765
25	Lawrence	734

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Vincent	728
27	Louis	655
28	Walter	653
29	Martin	627
30	Gary	626
31	Philip	612
32	Harold	603
33	Henry	589
34	Roger	588
35	Howard	574
36	Eugene	566
37	Albert	551
38	Bruce	521
39	Frederick	506
40	Francis	501
41	Dennis	498
42	Stanley	493
43	Carl	491
44	Leonard	490
45	Ralph	487
46	Alan	477
47	Fred	472
48	Jack	437
49	Patrick	434
50	Norman	422
51	Barry	375
52	Alfred	373
53	Harry	368
54	Larry	354
55	Douglas	344
56	Bernard	332
57	Andrew	320
58	Herbert	311
58	Jerry	311
60	Theodore	309
61	Nicholas	303
62	Joel	300
63	Harvey	290
63	Steven	290
65	Salvatore	280
66	Wayne	276
67	Samuel	266
68	Jerome	249
69	Allan	243
70	Allen	226
70	Arnold	226
72	Ernest	223
73	Roy	221
73	Victor	221
75	Melvin	215
76	Jeffrey	208
77	Stuart	203
78	Brian	201
79	Gordon	192
80	Edwin	190
80	Russell	190
82	Warren	187
83	Gerard	186
84	Marvin	184
85	Neil	176
86	Ira	159
87	Earl	154
88	Clifford	153
89	Angelo	151
90	Jay	150
91	Dominick	149
92	Dale	142
93	Matthew	140
94	Timothy	139
95	Mark	137
96	Leon	136
96	Lewis	136
98	Benjamin	131
99	Lee	126
100	Steve	125