Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1921

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	7,194
2	William	5,441
3	Robert	4,389
4	Joseph	4,375
5	James	3,353
6	Charles	3,124
7	George	2,999
8	Edward	2,473
9	Frank	1,997
10	Paul	1,707
11	Thomas	1,616
12	Richard	1,484
13	Harry	1,468
14	Walter	1,357
15	Albert	1,203
16	Donald	1,161
17	Raymond	1,065
18	Michael	1,054
19	Harold	1,040
20	Anthony	959
21	Francis	950
22	Ralph	784
23	David	760
24	Henry	755
25	Stanley	740

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Louis	735
27	Kenneth	686
28	Andrew	679
28	Jack	679
30	Arthur	678
31	Samuel	647
32	Eugene	595
33	Howard	593
34	Carl	583
35	Earl	569
36	Warren	548
37	Peter	542
38	Bernard	526
39	Leonard	504
40	Clarence	492
41	Daniel	467
42	Lawrence	435
43	Fred	417
44	Stephen	411
45	Norman	396
46	Russell	385
47	Steve	379
48	Ernest	375
49	Alfred	367
50	Leo	360
51	Vincent	354
52	Herbert	353
53	Theodore	352
54	Elmer	343
55	Chester	331
55	Frederick	331
57	Martin	318
58	Roy	315
59	Philip	284
60	Mike	283
61	Gerald	282
62	Nicholas	281
63	Edwin	264
64	Leroy	253
65	Glenn	238
65	Melvin	238
67	Herman	230
68	Lester	227
69	Lewis	222
70	Alexander	217
71	Leon	215
72	Victor	213
73	Benjamin	202
74	Clyde	201
75	Lloyd	192
76	Clifford	183
77	Joe	182
78	Jacob	175
79	Ray	164
80	Floyd	163
81	Milton	158
82	Angelo	157
82	Harvey	157
82	Nick	157
85	Alvin	150
86	Edgar	139
87	Franklin	137
88	Wayne	136
88	Wilbur	136
90	Morris	130
91	Allen	129
92	Edmund	127
93	Alex	123
93	Willard	123
95	Matthew	121
96	Tony	120
96	Wallace	120
98	Merle	119
99	Clair	116
99	Sidney	116