Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1943

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	7,924
2	John	7,502
3	Richard	5,594
4	James	5,117
5	William	5,045
6	Joseph	3,838
7	Thomas	3,620
8	Michael	3,483
9	David	2,976
10	Charles	2,596
11	Ronald	2,461
12	Edward	2,414
13	George	2,182
14	Peter	1,909
15	Paul	1,883
16	Donald	1,842
17	Frank	1,832
18	Anthony	1,619
19	Kenneth	1,561
20	Stephen	1,353
21	Gary	1,213
22	Arthur	1,104
23	Gerald	1,083
24	Raymond	1,077
25	Dennis	1,059

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Daniel	1,015
26	Lawrence	1,015
28	Walter	870
29	Alan	801
29	Roger	801
31	Howard	778
32	Steven	775
33	Philip	772
34	Vincent	768
35	Louis	753
36	Martin	745
37	Bruce	713
38	Henry	665
39	Douglas	664
40	Harold	638
41	Francis	635
42	Albert	622
43	Frederick	617
44	Barry	611
45	Leonard	610
46	Ralph	604
47	Eugene	593
48	Carl	564
49	Jeffrey	562
50	Stanley	552
51	Fred	544
52	Andrew	492
53	Larry	478
54	Patrick	477
55	Jack	438
56	Alfred	431
57	Harry	406
58	Norman	398
59	Jerry	397
60	Joel	392
61	Mark	389
62	Brian	385
63	Nicholas	378
64	Bernard	363
65	Theodore	352
66	Wayne	346
67	Victor	344
68	Harvey	315
68	Salvatore	315
70	Herbert	300
71	Allen	298
72	Samuel	296
73	Roy	291
74	Stuart	288
75	Gerard	278
76	Russell	269
77	Warren	268
78	Allan	266
79	Ernest	253
80	Timothy	246
81	Jerome	243
82	Kevin	239
83	Neil	236
84	Eric	223
85	Jay	222
86	Arnold	219
87	Melvin	212
88	Clifford	205
89	Leslie	201
90	Gordon	200
91	Edwin	198
92	Marvin	194
93	Terry	190
94	Matthew	186
95	Christopher	179
96	Lewis	173
97	Dale	166
98	Leon	165
99	Steve	156
100	Gregory	154