Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1953

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	9,060
2	John	8,200
3	Michael	7,819
4	James	6,334
5	Richard	5,936
6	William	5,509
7	David	5,498
8	Thomas	5,035
9	Joseph	4,626
10	Steven	2,981
11	Gary	2,866
12	Paul	2,840
13	Charles	2,665
14	Mark	2,514
15	Peter	2,356
16	Edward	2,351
17	Daniel	2,198
18	Stephen	2,119
19	Kenneth	2,096
20	Ronald	1,972
21	Donald	1,949
22	Anthony	1,929
23	George	1,906
24	Kevin	1,792
25	Jeffrey	1,787

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Dennis	1,644
27	Frank	1,601
28	Bruce	1,436
29	Lawrence	1,284
30	Raymond	1,202
31	Douglas	1,201
32	Timothy	1,140
33	Alan	1,097
34	Gregory	1,064
35	Brian	944
36	Andrew	933
37	Louis	897
38	Philip	894
39	Patrick	879
40	Arthur	844
41	Christopher	827
42	Wayne	823
43	Vincent	818
44	Howard	715
45	Martin	713
46	Frederick	690
47	Francis	681
48	Larry	667
49	Gerald	663
50	Walter	646
51	Scott	633
52	Barry	631
53	Ralph	610
54	Roger	600
55	Eric	591
56	Eugene	590
57	Keith	587
58	Carl	567
59	Henry	565
60	Glenn	560
61	Jose	555
62	Albert	497
63	Nicholas	494
64	Harold	477
65	Stanley	456
66	Craig	451
67	Leonard	444
68	Victor	427
69	Jonathan	407
70	Russell	400
71	Edwin	398
72	Jack	397
73	Gerard	389
74	Randy	386
74	Samuel	386
76	Matthew	383
77	Harry	378
78	Roy	375
79	Jerry	369
80	Terry	367
81	Alfred	366
82	Neil	361
83	Allen	356
84	Jay	355
85	Salvatore	348
86	Marc	345
87	Mitchell	340
88	Bernard	333
89	Theodore	328
90	Fred	302
91	Nelson	298
92	Dale	292
93	Stuart	291
94	Warren	290
95	Norman	283
96	Clifford	274
97	Rodney	262
98	Ernest	255
99	Joel	254
100	Jerome	251