Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1945

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	7,609
2	John	7,122
3	Richard	5,524
4	James	5,055
5	William	4,590
6	Thomas	3,667
7	Michael	3,633
8	Joseph	3,357
9	David	3,059
10	Charles	2,237
11	Edward	2,137
12	Ronald	1,980
13	Paul	1,932
14	George	1,831
15	Peter	1,764
16	Donald	1,762
17	Frank	1,561
18	Kenneth	1,515
19	Gary	1,476
20	Anthony	1,431
21	Stephen	1,181
22	Daniel	1,137
23	Dennis	1,112
24	Raymond	989
25	Lawrence	981

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Steven	959
27	Arthur	921
28	Alan	891
29	Gerald	836
30	Bruce	762
31	Louis	730
32	Walter	707
33	Vincent	694
34	Douglas	690
35	Philip	686
36	Roger	668
37	Martin	662
38	Howard	641
39	Jeffrey	632
40	Larry	593
41	Harold	581
42	Henry	550
43	Eugene	543
43	Mark	543
45	Frederick	536
46	Barry	535
47	Ralph	530
48	Leonard	529
49	Francis	517
50	Albert	511
51	Stanley	486
52	Patrick	479
53	Carl	476
54	Jack	457
55	Fred	455
56	Andrew	442
57	Wayne	404
58	Harry	394
59	Alfred	380
60	Joel	374
61	Victor	373
62	Norman	359
62	Timothy	359
64	Brian	355
65	Nicholas	351
66	Bernard	340
67	Theodore	337
68	Jerry	315
69	Harvey	312
70	Allen	306
71	Russell	304
72	Gregory	298
73	Roy	283
74	Neil	272
75	Samuel	261
76	Warren	259
77	Jay	257
78	Salvatore	256
79	Ernest	254
80	Terry	251
81	Kevin	247
82	Stuart	243
83	Gerard	241
84	Herbert	238
85	Allan	232
86	Eric	230
87	Arnold	215
88	Christopher	209
89	Jerome	204
89	Leslie	204
91	Clifford	198
92	Steve	188
93	Ira	185
94	Jonathan	184
95	Edwin	178
95	Gordon	178
95	Lee	178
98	Marvin	176
99	Marc	169
100	Earl	168