Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1954

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	8,914
2	John	8,492
3	Michael	8,227
4	James	6,553
5	David	5,903
6	Richard	5,766
7	William	5,478
8	Thomas	5,162
9	Joseph	4,851
10	Steven	3,090
11	Paul	3,029
12	Gary	2,984
13	Mark	2,951
14	Charles	2,532
15	Edward	2,500
16	Peter	2,340
17	Kevin	2,313
18	Anthony	2,222
19	Daniel	2,167
20	Stephen	2,163
21	Kenneth	2,137
22	Jeffrey	2,110
23	Donald	2,055
24	George	1,951
25	Ronald	1,920

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Frank	1,561
27	Dennis	1,383
28	Bruce	1,315
29	Lawrence	1,313
30	Raymond	1,288
30	Timothy	1,288
32	Douglas	1,246
33	Gregory	1,187
34	Brian	1,078
35	Alan	1,077
36	Philip	947
37	Andrew	885
38	Christopher	883
39	Louis	869
40	Vincent	862
41	Patrick	860
42	Wayne	856
43	Scott	806
44	Arthur	774
45	Gerald	694
46	Keith	686
47	Larry	685
48	Howard	668
49	Martin	659
50	Francis	654
51	Walter	638
52	Barry	632
53	Eric	622
54	Ralph	620
55	Frederick	610
56	Jose	604
57	Glenn	593
58	Carl	589
59	Albert	562
60	Eugene	561
61	Roger	556
62	Craig	541
63	Nicholas	523
64	Henry	522
65	Harold	472
66	Leonard	471
67	Edwin	465
68	Terry	446
69	Jonathan	439
70	Victor	431
71	Marc	430
72	Russell	427
73	Gerard	425
74	Mitchell	424
75	Stanley	410
76	Samuel	405
77	Harry	400
78	Matthew	380
79	Jack	379
80	Randy	378
81	Roy	375
82	Jay	350
83	Alfred	344
84	Theodore	339
85	Salvatore	334
86	Luis	331
87	Neil	322
88	Jerry	319
89	Stuart	317
90	Allen	312
91	Clifford	310
92	Dale	308
93	Bernard	304
94	Warren	294
95	Fred	287
96	Norman	284
97	Ernest	283
98	Joel	279
99	Carlos	265
100	Nelson	243