Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1924

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	7,262
2	William	5,504
3	Robert	5,274
4	Joseph	4,363
5	James	3,665
6	Charles	3,014
7	George	2,970
8	Edward	2,630
9	Richard	1,958
10	Frank	1,877
11	Thomas	1,847
12	Paul	1,786
13	Donald	1,449
14	Harry	1,383
15	Walter	1,331
16	Albert	1,148
17	Raymond	1,129
18	Harold	1,018
19	Michael	987
20	Francis	950
21	Anthony	898
22	David	856
23	Henry	773
24	Kenneth	734
25	Ralph	730

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Jack	711
27	Stanley	709
28	Louis	673
29	Carl	672
30	Eugene	667
31	Arthur	644
32	Samuel	631
33	Howard	609
34	Andrew	580
35	Earl	577
36	Peter	551
37	Leonard	545
38	Bernard	528
39	Daniel	503
40	Clarence	426
41	Norman	415
42	Vincent	412
43	Fred	408
44	Alfred	400
45	Russell	381
46	Lawrence	379
47	Ernest	366
48	Stephen	362
49	Theodore	360
50	Elmer	357
51	Herbert	356
52	Frederick	345
53	Roy	343
54	Leo	338
55	Leroy	320
56	Steve	314
57	Edwin	309
58	Gerald	306
59	Philip	301
60	Chester	285
61	Martin	281
62	Calvin	280
63	Warren	272
64	Nicholas	258
65	Glenn	256
66	Lewis	246
67	Melvin	241
68	Herman	221
69	Mike	220
70	Benjamin	219
71	Alexander	217
72	Ray	212
73	Lester	210
74	Clyde	208
75	Lloyd	205
76	Victor	202
77	Clifford	200
78	Leon	193
79	Jacob	158
80	Franklin	157
80	Wayne	157
82	Elwood	155
83	Alvin	147
84	Harvey	144
84	Marvin	144
86	Dale	143
87	Milton	142
88	Allen	140
89	Floyd	139
90	Edgar	138
91	Angelo	131
92	Clair	127
92	Nick	127
94	Edmund	125
95	Matthew	124
95	Wilbur	124
97	Willard	123
98	Irvin	122
98	Joe	122
100	Rudolph	121