Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1951

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	9,049
2	John	8,648
3	Michael	6,932
4	James	6,523
5	Richard	6,009
6	William	5,551
7	Thomas	5,314
8	David	4,824
9	Joseph	4,301
10	Gary	2,981
11	Charles	2,698
12	Paul	2,570
13	Steven	2,560
14	Edward	2,419
15	Stephen	2,330
16	Peter	2,287
17	Kenneth	2,147
18	Ronald	2,125
19	Donald	2,063
20	Daniel	2,030
21	George	2,022
22	Mark	1,996
23	Anthony	1,858
24	Dennis	1,853
25	Frank	1,676

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Bruce	1,501
27	Lawrence	1,362
28	Jeffrey	1,337
29	Douglas	1,285
30	Kevin	1,264
31	Raymond	1,247
32	Alan	1,139
33	Gregory	1,017
34	Philip	965
35	Arthur	961
36	Timothy	929
37	Louis	917
38	Andrew	873
39	Patrick	863
40	Christopher	841
41	Larry	824
42	Vincent	820
43	Brian	768
44	Gerald	757
45	Francis	733
46	Wayne	732
47	Howard	731
48	Martin	716
49	Barry	714
50	Ralph	658
51	Frederick	650
51	Walter	650
53	Roger	599
54	Carl	588
55	Henry	580
56	Albert	561
56	Eugene	561
58	Leonard	554
59	Eric	534
60	Nicholas	526
61	Harold	510
62	Glenn	508
63	Stanley	488
64	Harry	457
65	Keith	437
66	Scott	429
67	Alfred	419
68	Craig	403
69	Russell	396
70	Jack	389
71	Gerard	387
72	Jerry	372
73	Jose	366
73	Theodore	366
75	Allen	364
76	Victor	359
77	Samuel	357
78	Neil	354
79	Marc	352
80	Terry	335
81	Bernard	334
82	Norman	325
83	Salvatore	324
84	Jay	320
85	Joel	318
86	Fred	312
87	Warren	307
88	Mitchell	303
89	Clifford	299
90	Dale	293
91	Roy	292
92	Jonathan	290
93	Stuart	280
94	Edwin	268
95	Ira	255
96	Matthew	251
97	Ernest	242
98	Allan	238
99	Jerome	234
100	Lee	229