Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1948
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Robert | 9,010 |
| 2 | John | 8,976 |
| 3 | James | 6,522 |
| 4 | William | 5,698 |
| 5 | Richard | 5,662 |
| 6 | Michael | 5,381 |
| 7 | Thomas | 4,812 |
| 8 | David | 4,431 |
| 9 | Joseph | 4,254 |
| 10 | Charles | 2,680 |
| 11 | Ronald | 2,666 |
| 12 | Paul | 2,531 |
| 13 | Edward | 2,454 |
| 14 | George | 2,240 |
| 15 | Peter | 2,149 |
| 16 | Kenneth | 2,115 |
| 17 | Gary | 1,932 |
| 18 | Donald | 1,901 |
| 19 | Stephen | 1,880 |
| 20 | Frank | 1,867 |
| 21 | Anthony | 1,832 |
| 22 | Daniel | 1,726 |
| 23 | Steven | 1,664 |
| 24 | Dennis | 1,615 |
| 25 | Bruce | 1,417 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | Lawrence | 1,376 |
| 27 | Mark | 1,357 |
| 28 | Raymond | 1,293 |
| 29 | Alan | 1,189 |
| 30 | Jeffrey | 1,129 |
| 31 | Philip | 970 |
| 32 | Arthur | 949 |
| 33 | Douglas | 913 |
| 34 | Gerald | 886 |
| 35 | Louis | 883 |
| 36 | Gregory | 855 |
| 37 | Vincent | 850 |
| 38 | Larry | 846 |
| 39 | Howard | 769 |
| 40 | Patrick | 751 |
| 41 | Walter | 739 |
| 42 | Frederick | 721 |
| 43 | Timothy | 708 |
| 44 | Ralph | 707 |
| 45 | Francis | 698 |
| 46 | Roger | 692 |
| 47 | Martin | 680 |
| 48 | Andrew | 679 |
| 49 | Barry | 671 |
| 50 | Carl | 663 |
| 51 | Albert | 626 |
| 52 | Harold | 624 |
| 53 | Kevin | 621 |
| 54 | Henry | 610 |
| 55 | Wayne | 604 |
| 56 | Leonard | 593 |
| 57 | Brian | 585 |
| 58 | Eugene | 545 |
| 59 | Jack | 538 |
| 60 | Stanley | 527 |
| 61 | Christopher | 485 |
| 62 | Nicholas | 475 |
| 63 | Fred | 471 |
| 64 | Harry | 464 |
| 65 | Glenn | 435 |
| 66 | Jerry | 400 |
| 67 | Alfred | 399 |
| 68 | Russell | 390 |
| 69 | Terry | 383 |
| 70 | Eric | 379 |
| 71 | Bernard | 365 |
| 72 | Allen | 357 |
| 73 | Joel | 354 |
| 73 | Norman | 354 |
| 75 | Theodore | 353 |
| 76 | Roy | 345 |
| 77 | Victor | 343 |
| 78 | Samuel | 337 |
| 79 | Jay | 324 |
| 80 | Gerard | 320 |
| 81 | Stuart | 319 |
| 82 | Marc | 311 |
| 83 | Craig | 306 |
| 84 | Warren | 303 |
| 85 | Salvatore | 301 |
| 86 | Neil | 300 |
| 87 | Ernest | 294 |
| 88 | Allan | 288 |
| 89 | Edwin | 252 |
| 89 | Ira | 252 |
| 91 | Clifford | 249 |
| 92 | Jonathan | 245 |
| 93 | Dale | 243 |
| 94 | Herbert | 242 |
| 95 | Steve | 239 |
| 96 | Jerome | 236 |
| 97 | Keith | 230 |
| 98 | Harvey | 222 |
| 99 | Matthew | 217 |
| 100 | Jose | 204 |