Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1952

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	9,219
2	John	8,675
3	Michael	7,476
4	James	6,435
5	Richard	6,328
6	William	5,768
7	Thomas	5,295
8	David	5,257
9	Joseph	4,459
10	Gary	3,055
11	Steven	2,956
12	Paul	2,819
13	Charles	2,802
14	Edward	2,491
15	Stephen	2,389
16	Mark	2,293
17	Peter	2,269
18	Kenneth	2,152
19	Donald	2,050
20	Daniel	2,018
21	George	1,989
22	Ronald	1,986
23	Anthony	1,979
24	Dennis	1,816
25	Frank	1,625

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Bruce	1,494
27	Jeffrey	1,473
28	Kevin	1,466
29	Lawrence	1,382
30	Raymond	1,261
31	Douglas	1,216
32	Alan	1,116
33	Gregory	1,040
34	Timothy	1,039
35	Philip	971
36	Christopher	932
37	Arthur	922
38	Louis	904
39	Patrick	885
40	Vincent	884
41	Andrew	880
42	Brian	827
43	Howard	794
43	Larry	794
45	Wayne	775
46	Barry	743
47	Martin	724
48	Frederick	721
49	Francis	718
50	Gerald	711
51	Walter	704
52	Ralph	645
53	Carl	611
54	Henry	600
55	Keith	589
56	Roger	572
57	Eugene	571
58	Scott	567
59	Harold	554
60	Eric	553
61	Glenn	550
62	Albert	534
63	Leonard	527
64	Nicholas	490
65	Craig	469
66	Stanley	467
67	Harry	437
68	Victor	404
69	Russell	399
70	Jack	397
70	Samuel	397
72	Alfred	396
73	Theodore	390
74	Roy	387
75	Edwin	386
75	Jerry	386
77	Terry	379
78	Gerard	376
79	Jose	366
80	Jay	364
81	Neil	363
82	Jonathan	360
83	Marc	349
84	Mitchell	344
85	Dale	340
86	Fred	335
87	Matthew	334
88	Warren	330
89	Allen	318
89	Salvatore	318
91	Norman	316
92	Bernard	302
93	Ernest	300
94	Randy	296
95	Clifford	295
95	Joel	295
97	Stuart	263
98	Ira	253
99	Herbert	244
100	Jerome	237