Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1958

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	9,226
2	John	8,555
3	Robert	8,161
4	James	6,495
5	David	6,172
6	William	5,395
7	Richard	5,219
8	Thomas	5,037
9	Joseph	4,782
10	Mark	3,853
11	Steven	3,081
12	Paul	3,024
13	Kevin	2,772
14	Anthony	2,579
15	Daniel	2,540
16	Peter	2,391
17	Charles	2,250
18	Edward	2,237
19	Jeffrey	2,192
20	Timothy	2,169
21	Kenneth	2,081
22	Stephen	2,067
23	Brian	1,999
24	Frank	1,864
25	Gary	1,848

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Ronald	1,817
27	Donald	1,784
28	George	1,666
29	Scott	1,625
30	Christopher	1,585
31	Gregory	1,384
32	Douglas	1,262
33	Bruce	1,215
34	Andrew	1,207
35	Raymond	1,177
36	Lawrence	1,079
37	Patrick	1,060
38	Dennis	1,008
39	Vincent	973
40	Eric	941
41	Keith	920
42	Alan	887
43	Philip	839
44	Louis	809
45	Matthew	766
46	Wayne	739
47	Jose	719
48	Larry	707
49	Martin	651
50	Ralph	629
51	Arthur	620
52	Carl	609
53	Randy	596
54	Howard	595
55	Glenn	583
56	Walter	570
57	Edwin	560
58	Craig	556
59	Gerald	513
59	Victor	513
61	Russell	510
62	Eugene	506
63	Henry	505
64	Nicholas	500
65	Jonathan	494
66	Barry	481
67	Albert	476
68	Francis	466
69	Frederick	463
70	Luis	435
71	Samuel	410
72	Gerard	409
73	Mitchell	405
74	Leonard	404
75	Harold	401
76	Steve	393
77	Dale	390
78	Jerry	389
79	Jay	386
80	Terry	374
81	Mike	373
82	Harry	371
83	Roger	368
84	Ricky	367
85	Marc	363
86	Carlos	342
87	Neil	334
88	Chris	333
89	Stanley	317
90	Dean	310
91	Alfred	307
92	Roy	305
93	Jack	304
94	Fred	303
95	Allen	292
96	Bernard	284
97	Salvatore	278
98	Joe	273
99	Nelson	269
100	Todd	268