Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1944

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	7,226
2	John	6,933
3	Richard	5,419
4	James	5,001
5	William	4,679
6	Joseph	3,479
7	Michael	3,420
8	Thomas	3,359
9	David	2,905
10	Charles	2,323
11	Edward	2,221
12	Ronald	2,132
13	George	1,969
14	Paul	1,840
15	Peter	1,786
16	Donald	1,710
17	Frank	1,604
18	Kenneth	1,480
19	Anthony	1,396
20	Gary	1,343
21	Stephen	1,187
22	Daniel	1,084
23	Raymond	1,008
24	Dennis	954
25	Arthur	925

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Gerald	911
27	Lawrence	879
28	Alan	832
29	Steven	786
30	Walter	762
31	Bruce	695
32	Louis	681
33	Roger	660
34	Douglas	640
35	Vincent	632
36	Philip	627
37	Howard	619
38	Martin	601
39	Henry	588
40	Harold	559
40	Ralph	559
42	Eugene	552
42	Frederick	552
44	Albert	541
45	Francis	533
46	Leonard	532
47	Jeffrey	514
48	Larry	506
49	Carl	488
50	Barry	485
51	Fred	478
52	Stanley	466
53	Patrick	455
54	Andrew	444
55	Jack	439
56	Mark	399
57	Harry	395
58	Alfred	380
59	Norman	366
60	Jerry	364
61	Nicholas	363
62	Wayne	344
63	Joel	343
64	Bernard	342
65	Brian	331
65	Theodore	331
67	Roy	298
68	Russell	287
69	Samuel	277
70	Salvatore	271
71	Timothy	270
72	Victor	267
73	Allen	262
74	Herbert	255
75	Warren	250
76	Harvey	246
77	Ernest	237
78	Allan	233
78	Gerard	233
80	Neil	228
81	Arnold	217
82	Eric	210
83	Jay	202
84	Stuart	198
85	Terry	194
86	Jerome	193
87	Leslie	192
88	Kevin	191
89	Christopher	184
90	Melvin	183
91	Marvin	179
92	Edwin	178
93	Clifford	177
94	Gordon	165
95	Lewis	162
95	Matthew	162
97	Ira	158
98	Dale	157
99	Lee	154
100	Earl	151