Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1950

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	8,624
2	John	8,307
3	James	6,197
4	Michael	6,196
5	Richard	5,721
6	William	5,531
7	Thomas	5,009
8	David	4,475
9	Joseph	4,407
10	Charles	2,758
11	Gary	2,612
12	Paul	2,536
13	Edward	2,378
14	Ronald	2,346
15	Peter	2,090
15	Steven	2,090
17	Stephen	2,061
18	Kenneth	1,995
19	George	1,986
20	Daniel	1,900
21	Donald	1,875
22	Dennis	1,846
23	Anthony	1,774
24	Mark	1,720
25	Frank	1,675

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Bruce	1,511
27	Lawrence	1,373
28	Raymond	1,213
29	Douglas	1,156
30	Alan	1,149
31	Jeffrey	1,126
32	Kevin	1,053
33	Gregory	1,000
34	Arthur	939
35	Philip	909
36	Gerald	857
37	Louis	844
38	Timothy	827
39	Larry	803
40	Andrew	791
41	Vincent	789
42	Patrick	781
43	Martin	751
44	Howard	719
45	Wayne	706
46	Walter	688
47	Frederick	683
48	Francis	682
49	Christopher	679
50	Brian	673
51	Ralph	629
52	Eugene	617
53	Henry	598
54	Roger	593
55	Barry	582
56	Carl	576
57	Albert	566
58	Harold	560
59	Leonard	529
60	Nicholas	505
61	Eric	490
62	Glenn	488
63	Stanley	486
64	Harry	449
65	Jack	435
66	Russell	413
67	Alfred	402
68	Craig	400
69	Victor	398
70	Gerard	395
71	Samuel	384
72	Jay	370
73	Allen	352
74	Fred	345
75	Scott	339
76	Jerry	333
77	Keith	332
78	Terry	331
79	Theodore	329
80	Marc	325
81	Roy	323
82	Bernard	322
83	Neil	315
84	Stuart	308
85	Jose	304
86	Dale	303
87	Joel	299
88	Salvatore	298
89	Warren	290
90	Norman	285
91	Edwin	279
92	Ernest	278
93	Jonathan	275
94	Clifford	273
95	Allan	243
96	Ira	240
96	Mitchell	240
98	Matthew	235
99	Herbert	230
99	Lee	230