Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1955

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	8,814
2	John	8,551
3	Michael	8,441
4	James	6,579
5	David	6,209
6	William	5,567
7	Richard	5,546
8	Thomas	5,194
9	Joseph	4,873
10	Mark	3,296
11	Steven	3,168
12	Paul	2,931
13	Peter	2,639
14	Gary	2,628
15	Charles	2,489
16	Edward	2,432
17	Daniel	2,411
18	Kevin	2,390
19	Stephen	2,314
20	Jeffrey	2,307
21	Anthony	2,271
22	Kenneth	2,206
23	Donald	1,976
24	George	1,967
25	Ronald	1,870

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Frank	1,713
27	Timothy	1,477
28	Bruce	1,329
29	Gregory	1,327
30	Dennis	1,310
31	Brian	1,263
32	Douglas	1,256
33	Raymond	1,242
34	Lawrence	1,180
35	Christopher	1,148
36	Alan	1,141
37	Patrick	995
38	Andrew	938
39	Philip	908
40	Scott	900
41	Louis	890
42	Wayne	872
43	Vincent	871
44	Keith	848
45	Arthur	789
46	Jose	692
47	Martin	684
48	Howard	634
49	Larry	627
50	Ralph	625
51	Glenn	619
52	Carl	617
53	Walter	616
54	Eric	615
55	Francis	613
56	Gerald	612
57	Frederick	606
58	Craig	561
59	Henry	558
60	Barry	555
61	Nicholas	536
62	Albert	529
63	Roger	525
64	Randy	512
65	Russell	507
66	Edwin	497
67	Eugene	485
68	Jonathan	459
69	Harold	458
69	Victor	458
71	Leonard	446
72	Matthew	431
73	Gerard	430
74	Terry	426
75	Marc	423
76	Samuel	416
77	Mitchell	413
78	Stanley	394
79	Harry	392
80	Jack	361
81	Jerry	353
82	Theodore	352
83	Roy	349
84	Alfred	347
84	Salvatore	347
86	Carlos	345
87	Jay	342
88	Neil	324
89	Luis	317
90	Warren	296
91	Stuart	294
92	Clifford	285
93	Allen	284
94	Dale	272
95	Joel	268
96	Norman	265
97	Fred	263
98	Bernard	258
99	Lee	255
100	Rodney	253