Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1965
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 1 | Michael | 8,672 |
| 2 | John | 7,896 |
| 3 | Robert | 6,396 |
| 4 | David | 5,625 |
| 5 | James | 5,612 |
| 6 | Joseph | 4,429 |
| 7 | Richard | 3,911 |
| 8 | Thomas | 3,877 |
| 8 | William | 3,877 |
| 10 | Christopher | 3,188 |
| 11 | Mark | 2,878 |
| 12 | Anthony | 2,870 |
| 13 | Paul | 2,621 |
| 14 | Steven | 2,613 |
| 15 | Daniel | 2,610 |
| 16 | Kevin | 2,516 |
| 17 | Jeffrey | 2,212 |
| 18 | Timothy | 2,189 |
| 19 | Scott | 2,150 |
| 20 | Peter | 2,062 |
| 21 | Kenneth | 1,981 |
| 22 | Brian | 1,942 |
| 23 | Edward | 1,831 |
| 24 | Eric | 1,759 |
| 25 | Charles | 1,735 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|
| 26 | Stephen | 1,691 |
| 27 | Andrew | 1,550 |
| 28 | Patrick | 1,398 |
| 29 | Ronald | 1,371 |
| 30 | Frank | 1,360 |
| 31 | Gregory | 1,308 |
| 32 | George | 1,246 |
| 33 | Donald | 1,112 |
| 34 | Matthew | 1,107 |
| 35 | Gary | 1,100 |
| 36 | Douglas | 969 |
| 37 | Vincent | 965 |
| 38 | Keith | 956 |
| 39 | Raymond | 950 |
| 40 | Jose | 872 |
| 41 | Todd | 862 |
| 42 | Lawrence | 749 |
| 43 | Dennis | 692 |
| 44 | Craig | 690 |
| 45 | Rodney | 637 |
| 46 | Philip | 615 |
| 47 | Louis | 610 |
| 48 | Jonathan | 591 |
| 49 | Sean | 590 |
| 50 | Marc | 557 |
| 51 | Bruce | 545 |
| 52 | Glenn | 535 |
| 53 | Alan | 522 |
| 54 | Victor | 504 |
| 55 | Luis | 486 |
| 56 | Martin | 482 |
| 57 | Wayne | 469 |
| 58 | Carl | 447 |
| 59 | Adam | 446 |
| 59 | Darren | 446 |
| 61 | Edwin | 439 |
| 62 | Carlos | 431 |
| 63 | Gerald | 422 |
| 64 | Darryl | 414 |
| 65 | Ralph | 410 |
| 66 | Henry | 408 |
| 67 | Walter | 407 |
| 68 | Nicholas | 398 |
| 69 | Arthur | 394 |
| 70 | Albert | 392 |
| 71 | Randy | 387 |
| 72 | Frederick | 377 |
| 73 | Shawn | 376 |
| 74 | Samuel | 374 |
| 75 | Russell | 369 |
| 76 | Dean | 365 |
| 77 | Howard | 356 |
| 78 | Eugene | 348 |
| 79 | Francis | 345 |
| 79 | Juan | 345 |
| 81 | Angel | 340 |
| 82 | Barry | 301 |
| 83 | Roger | 299 |
| 84 | Jay | 286 |
| 85 | Miguel | 279 |
| 85 | Salvatore | 279 |
| 87 | Leonard | 277 |
| 88 | Harold | 272 |
| 89 | Chris | 269 |
| 90 | Jeffery | 260 |
| 90 | Larry | 260 |
| 92 | Jon | 254 |
| 93 | Benjamin | 253 |
| 94 | Jerry | 252 |
| 95 | Antonio | 249 |
| 96 | Theodore | 248 |
| 97 | Andre | 244 |
| 97 | Erik | 244 |
| 97 | Hector | 244 |
| 100 | Alexander | 239 |