Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1961

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	9,061
2	John	8,756
3	Robert	7,490
4	David	6,494
5	James	6,446
6	Thomas	4,789
7	Joseph	4,684
8	William	4,632
9	Richard	4,399
10	Mark	4,187
11	Steven	3,098
12	Anthony	2,965
13	Kevin	2,842
14	Paul	2,766
15	Daniel	2,662
16	Jeffrey	2,547
17	Peter	2,236
18	Kenneth	2,160
19	Christopher	2,154
20	Timothy	2,117
21	Edward	2,068
22	Charles	2,010
23	Scott	1,985
24	Brian	1,982
25	Stephen	1,916

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Frank	1,627
27	Ronald	1,576
28	Gary	1,560
29	Donald	1,519
30	George	1,515
31	Gregory	1,444
32	Andrew	1,350
33	Eric	1,254
34	Douglas	1,235
35	Patrick	1,180
36	Raymond	1,071
37	Keith	961
38	Bruce	951
39	Vincent	938
40	Jose	916
41	Matthew	876
42	Dennis	859
43	Alan	842
44	Lawrence	820
45	Philip	788
46	Craig	733
47	Louis	712
48	Glenn	710
49	Edwin	627
50	Martin	606
51	Wayne	572
52	Todd	558
53	Carl	556
54	Victor	553
55	Roger	549
55	Walter	549
57	Larry	517
58	Arthur	505
59	Nicholas	503
60	Russell	485
61	Barry	482
62	Ralph	479
63	Randy	474
64	Gerald	473
65	Luis	467
66	Howard	464
67	Henry	460
68	Albert	457
69	Marc	448
70	Jonathan	443
71	Francis	420
72	Samuel	418
73	Eugene	412
74	Jay	405
75	Steve	398
76	Darryl	395
77	Frederick	393
78	Mike	383
79	Chris	382
80	Leonard	381
81	Gerard	377
82	Mitchell	371
83	Dean	369
84	Carlos	367
85	Jerry	347
86	Dale	346
87	Harold	336
88	Jeffery	326
89	Terry	311
90	Angel	299
91	Adam	295
92	Danny	291
92	Salvatore	291
94	Harry	290
95	Jeff	284
96	Sean	280
97	Phillip	271
98	Fred	269
99	Bernard	267
100	Nelson	262