Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1940

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	5,351
2	John	5,253
3	William	4,124
4	James	4,109
5	Richard	3,218
6	Joseph	2,658
7	Thomas	2,370
8	Charles	2,348
9	Ronald	2,207
10	David	2,000
11	Donald	1,822
12	George	1,707
13	Edward	1,606
14	Paul	1,271
15	Michael	1,075
16	Kenneth	1,059
17	Frank	930
18	Raymond	825
19	Larry	796
20	Gerald	766
21	Harry	739
22	Francis	690
23	Gary	643
24	Walter	624
25	Anthony	584

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Daniel	579
27	Carl	552
28	Eugene	522
29	Harold	503
30	Albert	485
31	Lawrence	451
32	Ralph	445
33	Jack	438
34	Arthur	429
35	Dennis	428
36	Stephen	405
37	Samuel	387
38	Fred	381
39	Louis	367
40	Barry	366
41	Howard	363
41	Stanley	363
43	Henry	353
44	Wayne	349
45	Peter	343
46	Bernard	341
47	Frederick	323
48	Leonard	310
49	Dale	307
50	Andrew	294
51	Jerry	293
52	Norman	292
53	Philip	290
54	Earl	276
55	Russell	266
56	Glenn	254
57	Vincent	245
58	Bruce	243
59	Theodore	242
60	Roger	232
61	Melvin	230
62	Roy	229
63	Martin	226
64	Patrick	216
65	Alfred	215
66	Ernest	198
67	Terry	192
68	Clarence	191
69	Allen	189
70	Herbert	184
71	Ray	173
72	Leroy	171
73	Alan	169
74	Edwin	168
75	Nicholas	166
76	Franklin	164
77	Jerome	157
78	Lee	151
79	Jay	149
79	Warren	149
81	Leon	141
81	Lewis	141
83	Harvey	136
84	Gene	135
85	Clyde	131
86	Lester	126
87	Leo	120
87	Marvin	120
89	Chester	117
90	Clifford	115
91	Lloyd	109
91	Steve	109
93	Victor	108
94	Allan	107
95	Timothy	105
96	Douglas	100
97	Gordon	99
98	Mark	98
99	Alvin	97
100	Bill	93
100	Phillip	93