Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1957
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 9,124 |
| 2 | John | 8,610 |
| 3 | Robert | 8,468 |
| 4 | James | 6,639 |
| 5 | David | 5,972 |
| 6 | Richard | 5,414 |
| 7 | William | 5,380 |
| 8 | Thomas | 5,138 |
| 9 | Joseph | 4,967 |
| 10 | Mark | 3,977 |
| 11 | Steven | 3,277 |
| 12 | Paul | 3,013 |
| 13 | Kevin | 2,890 |
| 14 | Peter | 2,618 |
| 15 | Daniel | 2,605 |
| 16 | Anthony | 2,546 |
| 17 | Edward | 2,360 |
| 18 | Charles | 2,358 |
| 19 | Gary | 2,238 |
| 20 | Kenneth | 2,216 |
| 21 | Jeffrey | 2,209 |
| 22 | Stephen | 2,141 |
| 23 | Brian | 2,030 |
| 24 | Ronald | 1,948 |
| 25 | Donald | 1,929 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | George | 1,862 |
| 27 | Frank | 1,801 |
| 28 | Timothy | 1,793 |
| 29 | Gregory | 1,423 |
| 30 | Douglas | 1,328 |
| 31 | Christopher | 1,289 |
| 32 | Raymond | 1,285 |
| 33 | Scott | 1,254 |
| 34 | Bruce | 1,195 |
| 35 | Andrew | 1,174 |
| 36 | Lawrence | 1,169 |
| 37 | Patrick | 1,056 |
| 38 | Dennis | 1,031 |
| 39 | Keith | 969 |
| 40 | Vincent | 939 |
| 41 | Alan | 910 |
| 42 | Philip | 847 |
| 43 | Louis | 826 |
| 43 | Wayne | 826 |
| 45 | Eric | 786 |
| 46 | Larry | 744 |
| 47 | Arthur | 732 |
| 48 | Martin | 728 |
| 49 | Jose | 726 |
| 50 | Glenn | 691 |
| 51 | Howard | 635 |
| 52 | Matthew | 628 |
| 53 | Walter | 613 |
| 54 | Ralph | 594 |
| 55 | Randy | 591 |
| 56 | Gerald | 563 |
| 57 | Edwin | 558 |
| 58 | Carl | 554 |
| 59 | Frederick | 553 |
| 60 | Barry | 539 |
| 61 | Henry | 531 |
| 62 | Craig | 519 |
| 63 | Francis | 514 |
| 64 | Russell | 511 |
| 65 | Victor | 504 |
| 66 | Albert | 501 |
| 67 | Nicholas | 498 |
| 68 | Jonathan | 480 |
| 69 | Mitchell | 465 |
| 70 | Roger | 461 |
| 71 | Eugene | 445 |
| 72 | Leonard | 441 |
| 73 | Gerard | 437 |
| 74 | Samuel | 436 |
| 75 | Marc | 403 |
| 76 | Harold | 397 |
| 77 | Jay | 393 |
| 77 | Jerry | 393 |
| 79 | Terry | 387 |
| 80 | Jack | 375 |
| 81 | Luis | 371 |
| 81 | Steve | 371 |
| 83 | Stanley | 356 |
| 84 | Roy | 346 |
| 85 | Carlos | 344 |
| 86 | Dale | 341 |
| 87 | Alfred | 325 |
| 88 | Harry | 319 |
| 89 | Salvatore | 312 |
| 90 | Theodore | 308 |
| 91 | Fred | 306 |
| 92 | Angel | 301 |
| 93 | Dean | 298 |
| 94 | Bernard | 292 |
| 95 | Jeffery | 278 |
| 96 | Stuart | 274 |
| 97 | Joel | 273 |
| 98 | Mike | 272 |
| 98 | Neil | 272 |
| 100 | Ricky | 271 |