Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1946

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	9,294
2	John	8,688
3	Richard	7,155
4	James	6,368
5	William	5,656
6	Michael	4,719
7	Thomas	4,339
8	Joseph	4,089
9	David	3,702
10	Charles	2,733
11	Ronald	2,629
12	Edward	2,511
13	Paul	2,467
14	George	2,277
15	Peter	2,051
16	Donald	2,042
17	Kenneth	1,975
18	Frank	1,915
19	Gary	1,785
20	Anthony	1,712
21	Dennis	1,615
22	Stephen	1,602
23	Daniel	1,500
24	Steven	1,245
25	Bruce	1,206

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Raymond	1,193
27	Lawrence	1,190
28	Alan	1,065
29	Arthur	1,002
30	Gerald	951
31	Jeffrey	886
32	Mark	851
33	Philip	827
34	Douglas	817
35	Howard	813
36	Walter	812
37	Vincent	800
38	Roger	780
39	Barry	766
40	Louis	738
41	Larry	732
42	Martin	669
43	Frederick	666
44	Wayne	665
45	Henry	633
46	Francis	620
47	Ralph	611
48	Harold	607
49	Eugene	606
50	Andrew	598
50	Gregory	598
52	Patrick	588
53	Albert	587
54	Carl	582
55	Leonard	580
56	Stanley	529
57	Fred	516
58	Jack	501
59	Brian	468
60	Timothy	465
61	Joel	449
62	Harry	447
63	Nicholas	444
64	Alfred	393
65	Jerry	377
66	Norman	374
67	Theodore	373
68	Allen	372
69	Bernard	370
70	Terry	354
71	Kevin	346
72	Russell	344
73	Eric	342
74	Roy	341
75	Victor	338
76	Allan	328
77	Jay	322
78	Gerard	310
79	Ernest	308
80	Neil	306
81	Samuel	305
82	Stuart	303
83	Warren	295
84	Christopher	287
84	Harvey	287
86	Salvatore	283
87	Ira	265
88	Herbert	258
89	Glenn	242
90	Jerome	238
91	Lee	228
92	Clifford	223
93	Marc	221
94	Edwin	220
94	Jonathan	220
96	Arnold	218
97	Dale	215
98	Gordon	214
99	Leslie	196
100	Craig	192