Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1963
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 9,236 |
| 2 | John | 8,672 |
| 3 | Robert | 7,022 |
| 4 | David | 6,278 |
| 5 | James | 5,922 |
| 6 | Joseph | 4,617 |
| 7 | Richard | 4,511 |
| 8 | William | 4,352 |
| 9 | Thomas | 4,336 |
| 10 | Mark | 3,708 |
| 11 | Anthony | 3,041 |
| 12 | Paul | 2,935 |
| 13 | Steven | 2,783 |
| 14 | Kevin | 2,768 |
| 15 | Daniel | 2,599 |
| 16 | Scott | 2,506 |
| 17 | Jeffrey | 2,467 |
| 18 | Christopher | 2,350 |
| 19 | Peter | 2,110 |
| 20 | Timothy | 2,093 |
| 21 | Kenneth | 2,006 |
| 22 | Edward | 2,003 |
| 23 | Brian | 1,945 |
| 24 | Charles | 1,909 |
| 25 | Stephen | 1,740 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Frank | 1,591 |
| 27 | Gregory | 1,511 |
| 28 | Ronald | 1,446 |
| 29 | Andrew | 1,406 |
| 30 | Eric | 1,351 |
| 31 | Donald | 1,348 |
| 32 | Gary | 1,285 |
| 33 | George | 1,270 |
| 34 | Patrick | 1,254 |
| 35 | Douglas | 1,185 |
| 36 | Raymond | 1,091 |
| 37 | Vincent | 1,004 |
| 38 | Keith | 985 |
| 39 | Matthew | 920 |
| 40 | Jose | 917 |
| 41 | Todd | 894 |
| 42 | Lawrence | 872 |
| 43 | Dennis | 736 |
| 44 | Bruce | 727 |
| 45 | Louis | 669 |
| 46 | Philip | 667 |
| 47 | Craig | 659 |
| 48 | Glenn | 648 |
| 49 | Alan | 644 |
| 50 | Martin | 611 |
| 51 | Jonathan | 582 |
| 52 | Edwin | 568 |
| 53 | Carl | 537 |
| 54 | Gerald | 517 |
| 55 | Wayne | 516 |
| 56 | Nicholas | 507 |
| 57 | Marc | 504 |
| 58 | Luis | 495 |
| 59 | Arthur | 481 |
| 59 | Victor | 481 |
| 61 | Walter | 461 |
| 62 | Larry | 449 |
| 63 | Albert | 446 |
| 64 | Randy | 438 |
| 65 | Adam | 437 |
| 66 | Barry | 435 |
| 66 | Roger | 435 |
| 68 | Ralph | 430 |
| 69 | Russell | 429 |
| 70 | Frederick | 421 |
| 71 | Howard | 407 |
| 72 | Samuel | 402 |
| 73 | Henry | 401 |
| 74 | Darryl | 400 |
| 75 | Eugene | 378 |
| 76 | Francis | 375 |
| 77 | Carlos | 370 |
| 78 | Chris | 367 |
| 79 | Harold | 346 |
| 80 | Dean | 338 |
| 81 | Gerard | 329 |
| 82 | Terry | 326 |
| 83 | Juan | 322 |
| 84 | Leonard | 315 |
| 85 | Jay | 303 |
| 86 | Jeffery | 300 |
| 87 | Sean | 295 |
| 88 | Theodore | 293 |
| 89 | Jerry | 283 |
| 90 | Angel | 281 |
| 91 | Steve | 280 |
| 92 | Jerome | 278 |
| 92 | Salvatore | 278 |
| 94 | Dale | 271 |
| 95 | Mitchell | 269 |
| 96 | Alexander | 267 |
| 97 | Shawn | 264 |
| 98 | Nelson | 261 |
| 99 | Allen | 260 |
| 100 | Miguel | 256 |