Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1916

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,543
2	Joseph	4,004
3	William	3,985
4	Charles	2,754
5	Robert	2,626
6	George	2,558
7	James	2,453
8	Edward	1,891
9	Frank	1,876
10	Paul	1,482
11	Harry	1,217
12	Walter	1,170
13	Thomas	1,165
14	Michael	1,110
15	Albert	1,032
16	Richard	915
17	Anthony	873
18	Raymond	816
19	Harold	788
20	Stanley	754
21	Francis	723
22	Henry	681
23	Louis	669
24	Andrew	656
25	Samuel	634

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Donald	613
27	Ralph	603
28	Carl	596
29	Arthur	579
30	David	532
31	Peter	530
32	Howard	516
33	Kenneth	497
34	Earl	476
35	Stephen	435
36	Clarence	398
37	Steve	386
38	Bernard	376
39	Frederick	374
40	Eugene	365
41	Fred	361
42	Alfred	360
43	Jack	344
44	Daniel	341
45	Lawrence	335
46	Elmer	331
47	Vincent	326
48	Russell	325
49	Chester	311
50	Norman	305
51	Herbert	295
51	Leonard	295
53	Leo	289
54	Mike	284
55	Ernest	279
56	Nicholas	264
57	Martin	262
57	Roy	262
59	Philip	259
60	Theodore	255
61	Lester	237
62	Edwin	228
63	Benjamin	218
64	Alexander	212
65	Victor	208
66	Lewis	202
67	Melvin	199
68	Clyde	197
69	Leroy	195
70	Jacob	190
71	Lloyd	182
72	Joe	180
73	Glenn	179
74	Gerald	175
75	Herman	171
76	Warren	166
77	Leon	163
78	Franklin	161
79	Wilbur	158
80	Willard	156
81	Alex	151
82	Clifford	145
83	Ray	144
84	Morris	138
85	Milton	133
86	Edgar	129
87	Matthew	128
88	Tony	127
89	Elwood	125
90	Allen	123
91	Adam	122
91	Harvey	122
93	Floyd	120
94	Sidney	118
95	Angelo	115
95	Nick	115
97	Woodrow	111
98	Edmund	109
99	Clair	106
99	Julius	106