Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1938

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	5,563
2	John	5,253
3	James	4,180
4	William	4,087
5	Richard	3,058
6	Joseph	2,720
7	Charles	2,388
8	Thomas	2,226
9	Donald	2,206
10	Ronald	2,129
11	George	1,795
12	David	1,712
13	Edward	1,650
14	Paul	1,339
15	Kenneth	1,008
16	Frank	951
17	Raymond	855
18	Michael	837
19	Harry	746
20	Gerald	690
21	Francis	670
22	Carl	627
23	Walter	613
24	Eugene	608
25	Anthony	607

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Larry	594
27	Albert	584
28	Daniel	560
29	Harold	533
30	Jack	528
31	Ralph	474
32	Arthur	456
33	Lawrence	453
34	Fred	435
35	Howard	395
36	Gary	390
37	Samuel	382
38	Bernard	381
39	Louis	375
40	Henry	371
41	Stanley	345
42	Leonard	339
43	Norman	333
44	Wayne	328
45	Frederick	319
46	Earl	305
47	Stephen	302
48	Andrew	300
49	Peter	294
50	Russell	292
51	Theodore	277
52	Dale	271
53	Glenn	248
53	Philip	248
55	Clarence	246
56	Vincent	241
57	Bruce	238
58	Roger	229
59	Jerry	224
60	Melvin	222
61	Roy	221
62	Dennis	218
63	Ernest	215
64	Leroy	213
65	Martin	209
66	Alfred	204
67	Edwin	185
68	Allen	181
68	Barry	181
70	Alan	175
71	Patrick	174
72	Jerome	172
73	Lee	171
74	Herbert	169
75	Terry	168
76	Ray	162
77	Warren	148
78	Jay	147
79	Lloyd	138
80	Leon	137
81	Nicholas	133
82	Leo	131
83	Lewis	130
84	Marvin	125
85	Karl	124
86	Franklin	123
86	Gene	123
88	Clifford	122
89	Elmer	118
90	Allan	117
91	Harvey	116
92	Arnold	114
93	Alvin	112
93	Douglas	112
95	Lester	109
96	Clyde	108
96	Victor	108
98	Gordon	107
99	Mark	97
100	Chester	96