Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1935

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	5,087
2	John	4,954
3	William	3,925
4	James	3,871
5	Richard	2,961
6	Joseph	2,806
7	Donald	2,625
8	Charles	2,300
9	Thomas	1,913
10	George	1,746
11	Edward	1,646
12	Ronald	1,597
13	Paul	1,270
14	David	1,213
15	Frank	952
16	Kenneth	914
17	Raymond	827
18	Harry	791
19	Francis	690
20	Michael	671
21	Walter	660
22	Gerald	640
23	Eugene	596
24	Jack	593
25	Albert	585

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Harold	577
27	Carl	569
28	Anthony	533
29	Ralph	506
30	Daniel	469
31	Arthur	430
32	Louis	427
33	Fred	410
34	Lawrence	397
35	Henry	384
36	Bernard	380
37	Earl	374
38	Samuel	373
39	Stanley	365
40	Howard	358
41	Leonard	344
42	Frederick	319
43	Norman	301
44	Larry	285
45	Theodore	279
46	Andrew	270
47	Wayne	268
48	Philip	261
48	Russell	261
50	Peter	259
51	Clarence	249
52	Glenn	242
53	Herbert	236
54	Alfred	234
55	Stephen	228
56	Leroy	227
57	Dale	215
57	Vincent	215
59	Roy	214
60	Melvin	212
61	Ernest	203
62	Martin	196
63	Ray	194
64	Jerry	192
65	Gary	189
66	Edwin	180
67	Leon	173
68	Franklin	169
69	Jerome	168
69	Roger	168
71	Bruce	162
72	Marvin	159
73	Lee	157
74	Lewis	155
75	Leo	154
76	Nicholas	149
77	Jay	148
78	Patrick	147
79	Joe	141
80	Allen	140
81	Gordon	136
82	Clifford	131
83	Barry	128
83	Clyde	128
83	Dennis	128
86	Warren	127
87	Gene	125
88	Lloyd	120
89	Elmer	117
89	Harvey	117
91	Chester	114
91	Lester	114
93	Benjamin	113
94	Victor	108
95	Alvin	106
95	Dean	106
97	Don	103
98	Floyd	99
98	Steve	99
100	Karl	94