Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1942

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	7,664
2	John	7,265
3	Richard	5,371
4	William	5,048
5	James	4,975
6	Joseph	3,980
7	Thomas	3,433
8	Michael	3,397
9	David	3,089
10	Charles	2,521
11	Edward	2,313
12	Ronald	2,212
13	George	2,183
14	Peter	1,846
15	Paul	1,836
16	Frank	1,822
17	Donald	1,749
18	Anthony	1,670
19	Kenneth	1,497
20	Stephen	1,329
21	Arthur	1,175
22	Gary	1,101
23	Daniel	1,060
24	Dennis	1,034
25	Gerald	1,027

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Lawrence	1,025
27	Raymond	1,012
28	Douglas	868
29	Walter	841
30	Bruce	812
31	Louis	799
32	Philip	796
32	Vincent	796
34	Howard	755
34	Martin	755
36	Steven	727
37	Roger	719
38	Alan	716
39	Henry	675
40	Francis	660
41	Frederick	648
42	Ralph	632
43	Harold	617
44	Carl	597
44	Stanley	597
46	Leonard	596
47	Albert	586
48	Fred	579
49	Barry	566
50	Eugene	554
51	Patrick	513
52	Jeffrey	506
53	Larry	476
54	Alfred	452
55	Norman	449
56	Andrew	430
57	Jack	429
58	Nicholas	415
59	Harry	407
60	Joel	397
61	Jerry	375
62	Theodore	359
63	Bernard	357
64	Harvey	344
65	Allen	338
66	Victor	324
67	Wayne	316
68	Herbert	311
69	Salvatore	308
70	Allan	294
71	Stuart	285
72	Mark	279
73	Brian	274
74	Gerard	268
75	Samuel	260
76	Roy	259
77	Timothy	258
78	Warren	256
79	Arnold	253
80	Jerome	249
81	Ernest	246
82	Neil	242
83	Melvin	236
84	Russell	228
85	Marvin	221
86	Ira	216
87	Jay	215
88	Kevin	210
89	Lewis	207
90	Edwin	206
91	Gordon	189
92	Matthew	180
93	Leon	179
93	Steve	179
95	Clifford	177
96	Dominick	172
97	Earl	171
98	Angelo	167
99	Christopher	162
100	Eric	160