Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1956

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	8,707
2	John	8,604
3	Robert	8,585
4	James	6,527
5	David	5,942
6	William	5,453
7	Richard	5,352
8	Thomas	4,961
9	Joseph	4,892
10	Mark	3,738
11	Steven	3,189
12	Paul	2,916
13	Kevin	2,792
14	Peter	2,591
15	Daniel	2,530
16	Charles	2,487
17	Edward	2,471
18	Anthony	2,419
19	Gary	2,336
20	Jeffrey	2,256
21	Stephen	2,171
22	Kenneth	2,148
23	Donald	1,944
24	Ronald	1,931
25	George	1,793

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Brian	1,727
27	Frank	1,717
28	Timothy	1,696
29	Gregory	1,459
30	Bruce	1,310
31	Douglas	1,264
32	Raymond	1,242
33	Lawrence	1,223
34	Christopher	1,169
35	Dennis	1,102
36	Scott	1,083
37	Andrew	1,081
38	Patrick	999
39	Alan	998
40	Keith	920
41	Vincent	875
42	Philip	841
43	Louis	838
44	Wayne	777
45	Martin	761
46	Jose	746
47	Arthur	724
48	Eric	723
49	Larry	673
50	Howard	647
51	Ralph	628
52	Glenn	619
53	Walter	617
54	Gerald	606
55	Carl	599
56	Frederick	586
57	Francis	574
58	Randy	571
59	Russell	552
60	Barry	546
61	Matthew	542
62	Craig	541
63	Edwin	531
64	Henry	530
65	Nicholas	506
66	Jonathan	480
67	Albert	469
67	Victor	469
69	Eugene	463
70	Gerard	448
71	Roger	439
72	Harold	426
73	Leonard	416
74	Marc	397
75	Samuel	389
76	Jay	385
77	Mitchell	384
78	Stanley	383
79	Harry	382
80	Jack	372
81	Terry	359
82	Roy	354
83	Dale	350
84	Carlos	338
85	Jerry	337
86	Alfred	335
86	Luis	335
88	Neil	323
89	Salvatore	303
90	Theodore	301
91	Allen	292
91	Bernard	292
93	Steve	276
94	Fred	271
94	Joel	271
96	Stuart	268
97	Ernest	262
98	Norman	252
99	Clifford	250
100	Angel	242
100	Jeffery	242