Most popular boys’ names in Ohio, 1942

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	James	4,295
2	Robert	4,134
3	John	3,619
4	William	3,101
5	Richard	2,659
6	David	2,549
7	Thomas	2,215
8	Charles	1,938
9	Ronald	1,912
10	Larry	1,628
11	Donald	1,537
12	Gary	1,311
13	Michael	1,294
14	Kenneth	1,083
15	Paul	1,043
16	Joseph	1,018
17	Jerry	967
18	George	924
19	Edward	863
20	Dennis	861
21	Roger	696
22	Gerald	670
23	Frank	603
24	Raymond	589
25	Daniel	580

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Jack	562
27	Carl	536
28	Douglas	494
29	Harold	436
30	Ralph	428
31	Terry	413
32	Lawrence	409
33	Walter	382
34	Dale	373
35	Stephen	363
36	Fred	354
37	Tom	335
38	Harry	329
39	Bruce	309
40	Arthur	291
41	Wayne	290
42	Albert	283
43	Eugene	281
44	Howard	278
45	Jim	277
46	Anthony	266
47	Timothy	264
48	Bill	259
49	Russell	250
50	Norman	238
51	Don	233
52	Joe	232
53	Louis	220
54	Patrick	215
55	Philip	214
56	Earl	213
57	Roy	210
58	Melvin	208
59	Phillip	206
60	Frederick	205
61	Stanley	198
62	Henry	196
63	Ronnie	186
64	Ray	183
65	Leonard	174
66	Glenn	171
67	Alan	169
68	Bob	167
69	Peter	166
70	Samuel	164
71	Clarence	161
71	Jerome	161
73	Gene	155
73	Mike	155
75	Jon	153
76	Martin	152
77	Jeffrey	151
78	Marvin	150
79	Allen	144
80	Steve	143
81	Steven	140
82	Danny	139
83	Ernest	137
84	Clifford	135
84	Dave	135
86	Bernard	133
86	Leroy	133
86	Theodore	133
89	Andrew	131
89	Barry	131
91	Francis	125
91	Herbert	125
93	Mark	124
94	Gordon	120
95	Lee	119
96	Dan	116
97	Edwin	114
97	Franklin	114
99	Victor	112
100	Lloyd	111