Most popular boys’ names in Ohio, 1954

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	5,361
2	James	5,072
3	David	5,013
3	Robert	5,013
5	John	4,643
6	William	3,585
7	Richard	3,552
8	Thomas	3,277
9	Mark	2,552
10	Gary	2,340
11	Charles	2,166
12	Steven	2,034
13	Donald	1,896
14	Ronald	1,808
15	Jeffrey	1,790
16	Daniel	1,770
17	Joseph	1,694
18	Timothy	1,592
19	Dennis	1,435
20	Kenneth	1,420
21	Paul	1,390
22	Gregory	1,388
23	Larry	1,171
24	Stephen	1,161
25	Terry	1,084

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Douglas	1,077
27	Edward	1,007
28	George	937
29	Bruce	894
30	Kevin	870
31	Randy	784
32	Roger	754
33	Anthony	730
34	Jerry	680
35	Raymond	642
36	Dale	637
37	Patrick	609
38	Keith	595
39	Frank	561
40	Lawrence	554
41	Scott	542
42	Jack	527
43	Carl	497
44	Gerald	491
45	Danny	466
46	Craig	436
47	Alan	430
48	Randall	427
49	Ricky	421
50	Ralph	406
51	Wayne	379
52	Rick	374
53	Jeffery	369
54	Christopher	359
55	Brian	355
56	Philip	350
57	Harold	322
57	Peter	322
59	Walter	319
60	Russell	315
61	Phillip	300
62	Steve	293
63	Rodney	288
64	Martin	287
65	Glenn	282
66	Stanley	279
67	Frederick	276
68	Eric	274
69	Barry	273
70	Andrew	272
71	Eugene	270
71	Samuel	270
73	Roy	268
74	Arthur	265
75	Kim	254
76	Theodore	227
77	Micheal	226
78	Harry	222
79	Howard	220
80	Albert	219
81	Allen	218
81	Dean	218
83	Ronnie	212
84	Darrell	211
85	Jay	195
86	Clifford	192
87	Ernest	191
88	Fred	185
88	Lee	185
88	Leonard	185
91	Louis	184
92	Earl	182
92	Jon	182
94	Norman	176
95	Jerome	175
95	Jonathan	175
97	Dan	173
98	Victor	171
99	Marvin	169
100	Terrence	167