Most popular boys’ names in New York, 1968

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	7,900
2	John	5,951
3	Robert	5,509
4	David	5,444
5	James	4,686
6	Joseph	3,659
7	Christopher	3,465
8	Richard	3,298
9	William	3,263
10	Thomas	3,197
11	Mark	2,714
12	Anthony	2,608
13	Daniel	2,301
14	Scott	2,268
15	Paul	2,223
16	Brian	2,148
17	Jeffrey	2,078
17	Steven	2,078
19	Kevin	2,073
20	Timothy	1,840
21	Eric	1,822
22	Peter	1,726
23	Edward	1,597
24	Matthew	1,564
25	Charles	1,469

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Kenneth	1,459
27	Andrew	1,440
28	Stephen	1,403
29	Patrick	1,263
30	Frank	1,140
31	Gregory	1,134
32	Ronald	1,117
33	George	1,071
34	Jose	1,045
35	Sean	1,009
36	Todd	988
37	Donald	914
38	Keith	883
39	Douglas	878
40	Raymond	812
41	Gary	783
42	Vincent	747
43	Craig	725
44	Jonathan	671
45	Luis	585
46	Marc	583
47	Dennis	563
48	Jason	561
49	Lawrence	547
50	Philip	514
51	Adam	482
52	Louis	475
53	Shawn	458
54	Carlos	456
55	Nicholas	448
56	Victor	421
57	Gerald	397
58	Glenn	388
59	Wayne	387
60	Martin	380
61	Edwin	375
62	Angel	365
63	Russell	362
64	Alan	359
65	Rodney	355
66	Bruce	349
67	Carl	344
68	Alexander	340
69	Samuel	338
70	Dean	332
71	Darren	329
71	Juan	329
73	Albert	321
74	Walter	319
75	Henry	316
76	Frederick	311
77	Arthur	302
78	Roger	294
79	Erik	288
80	Francis	287
81	Eugene	284
82	Salvatore	281
83	Hector	279
84	Benjamin	278
85	Ralph	277
86	Rafael	276
87	Jeffery	272
88	Miguel	266
89	Randy	263
90	Andre	259
91	Antonio	256
92	Bryan	254
92	Howard	254
94	Troy	242
95	Joel	241
96	Derrick	238
97	Jay	231
98	Jerry	223
98	Roberto	223
100	Jon	222