Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1917

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,620
2	William	4,462
3	Joseph	4,223
4	Robert	3,112
5	Charles	2,766
6	George	2,632
7	James	2,568
8	Edward	2,039
9	Frank	1,985
10	Paul	1,566
11	Thomas	1,409
12	Harry	1,309
12	Walter	1,309
14	Michael	1,099
15	Albert	1,087
16	Richard	967
17	Anthony	898
18	Raymond	887
19	Harold	878
20	Stanley	793
21	Francis	776
22	Henry	737
23	Donald	735
24	Samuel	683
25	Andrew	682

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Louis	670
27	Ralph	668
28	Arthur	618
29	Carl	582
30	David	573
31	Howard	523
32	Earl	495
33	Kenneth	493
34	Peter	483
35	Daniel	439
36	Stephen	435
37	Clarence	420
38	Bernard	419
39	Jack	415
40	Russell	388
41	Fred	374
42	Leonard	371
43	Norman	364
44	Alfred	355
44	Eugene	355
46	Steve	351
47	Frederick	329
48	Vincent	326
49	Chester	325
50	Theodore	319
51	Martin	317
52	Lawrence	315
53	Herbert	310
54	Elmer	308
55	Mike	305
56	Leo	291
57	Nicholas	284
58	Roy	276
59	Ernest	268
60	Leroy	249
61	Lester	246
62	Philip	238
63	Edwin	237
64	Benjamin	230
65	Alexander	226
66	Victor	203
67	Melvin	202
68	Herman	194
69	Lewis	193
70	Leon	192
71	Joe	191
72	Gerald	188
72	Lloyd	188
74	Clyde	184
75	Jacob	177
76	Glenn	173
77	Clifford	169
78	Ray	167
79	Warren	158
80	Edgar	156
81	Nick	149
82	Wilbur	144
83	Floyd	142
83	Franklin	142
85	Willard	137
86	Milton	136
87	Alex	133
88	Rudolph	130
89	Wayne	126
90	Clair	125
91	Sidney	124
92	Elwood	123
93	Angelo	121
94	Tony	118
95	Matthew	117
96	Harvey	116
97	Sam	115
98	Morris	112
99	Edmund	111
100	Maurice	110
100	Pete	110