Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1960
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 8,921 |
| 2 | John | 8,332 |
| 3 | Robert | 7,424 |
| 4 | David | 6,599 |
| 5 | James | 6,402 |
| 6 | Thomas | 4,880 |
| 7 | William | 4,834 |
| 8 | Richard | 4,693 |
| 9 | Joseph | 4,652 |
| 10 | Mark | 4,219 |
| 11 | Steven | 3,301 |
| 12 | Kevin | 2,873 |
| 13 | Anthony | 2,860 |
| 14 | Paul | 2,784 |
| 15 | Daniel | 2,600 |
| 16 | Peter | 2,363 |
| 17 | Timothy | 2,348 |
| 18 | Jeffrey | 2,328 |
| 19 | Kenneth | 2,142 |
| 20 | Charles | 2,123 |
| 21 | Edward | 2,100 |
| 22 | Christopher | 2,094 |
| 23 | Brian | 2,029 |
| 24 | Stephen | 1,969 |
| 25 | Frank | 1,764 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Scott | 1,748 |
| 27 | Donald | 1,676 |
| 28 | Ronald | 1,656 |
| 29 | George | 1,563 |
| 30 | Gary | 1,484 |
| 31 | Gregory | 1,433 |
| 32 | Andrew | 1,303 |
| 33 | Douglas | 1,170 |
| 34 | Eric | 1,156 |
| 35 | Raymond | 1,138 |
| 36 | Patrick | 1,113 |
| 37 | Dennis | 963 |
| 38 | Bruce | 937 |
| 39 | Vincent | 925 |
| 40 | Keith | 909 |
| 41 | Lawrence | 867 |
| 42 | Jose | 844 |
| 43 | Matthew | 820 |
| 44 | Craig | 804 |
| 45 | Alan | 803 |
| 46 | Louis | 778 |
| 47 | Philip | 761 |
| 48 | Wayne | 645 |
| 49 | Edwin | 605 |
| 50 | Glenn | 602 |
| 51 | Martin | 596 |
| 52 | Larry | 562 |
| 53 | Arthur | 560 |
| 54 | Carl | 551 |
| 55 | Randy | 540 |
| 56 | Howard | 539 |
| 57 | Nicholas | 516 |
| 58 | Russell | 504 |
| 59 | Gerald | 503 |
| 60 | Ralph | 497 |
| 61 | Albert | 487 |
| 62 | Walter | 483 |
| 63 | Victor | 474 |
| 64 | Henry | 456 |
| 65 | Roger | 446 |
| 66 | Steve | 445 |
| 67 | Barry | 442 |
| 68 | Eugene | 438 |
| 69 | Luis | 437 |
| 70 | Chris | 436 |
| 71 | Jonathan | 435 |
| 72 | Frederick | 421 |
| 73 | Marc | 416 |
| 74 | Gerard | 415 |
| 75 | Francis | 412 |
| 76 | Jay | 406 |
| 77 | Mike | 390 |
| 78 | Samuel | 383 |
| 79 | Dale | 365 |
| 80 | Mitchell | 357 |
| 81 | Todd | 353 |
| 82 | Darryl | 349 |
| 82 | Jerry | 349 |
| 82 | Leonard | 349 |
| 85 | Jack | 343 |
| 86 | Terry | 341 |
| 87 | Harold | 338 |
| 88 | Carlos | 332 |
| 89 | Roy | 305 |
| 90 | Dean | 303 |
| 90 | Juan | 303 |
| 92 | Angel | 300 |
| 93 | Theodore | 296 |
| 94 | Salvatore | 293 |
| 95 | Harry | 292 |
| 96 | Jeff | 291 |
| 97 | Stanley | 283 |
| 98 | Alfred | 281 |
| 99 | Ricky | 277 |
| 100 | Stuart | 275 |