Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1949

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	8,850
2	John	8,611
3	James	6,258
4	Michael	5,671
5	Richard	5,652
6	William	5,599
7	Thomas	4,848
8	David	4,422
9	Joseph	4,326
10	Charles	2,869
11	Paul	2,571
12	Ronald	2,495
13	Edward	2,391
14	Peter	2,164
15	Stephen	2,100
16	George	2,097
16	Kenneth	2,097
18	Gary	2,053
19	Donald	1,989
20	Steven	1,939
21	Anthony	1,854
22	Daniel	1,838
23	Frank	1,729
24	Dennis	1,639
25	Mark	1,569

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Bruce	1,517
27	Lawrence	1,490
28	Raymond	1,266
29	Jeffrey	1,116
30	Alan	1,107
31	Douglas	1,053
32	Philip	1,012
33	Arthur	929
34	Gregory	896
35	Louis	879
36	Vincent	874
37	Kevin	866
38	Larry	812
39	Gerald	801
40	Patrick	796
41	Francis	781
42	Timothy	772
43	Frederick	731
44	Walter	729
45	Howard	714
46	Martin	690
47	Andrew	672
48	Roger	664
49	Ralph	643
50	Henry	638
51	Wayne	622
52	Carl	618
53	Christopher	603
54	Eugene	599
55	Barry	595
56	Brian	559
57	Albert	523
58	Nicholas	519
59	Leonard	510
60	Harold	500
61	Stanley	493
62	Glenn	486
63	Harry	436
64	Jack	433
65	Alfred	399
66	Eric	398
67	Fred	391
68	Jerry	387
69	Samuel	381
70	Terry	368
71	Joel	352
72	Bernard	348
72	Victor	348
74	Russell	347
75	Norman	345
76	Roy	340
77	Marc	336
78	Allen	333
78	Theodore	333
80	Craig	322
80	Jay	322
82	Salvatore	314
83	Warren	312
84	Neil	305
85	Gerard	299
86	Ernest	289
87	Stuart	287
88	Allan	276
89	Edwin	271
90	Jonathan	268
91	Dale	266
92	Keith	265
93	Jose	263
94	Clifford	256
95	Scott	252
96	Herbert	251
97	Harvey	246
97	Jerome	246
99	Ira	239
100	Arnold	219