Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1942

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,575
2	Robert	6,204
3	James	5,206
4	William	5,058
5	Richard	3,683
6	Joseph	3,298
7	Thomas	2,977
8	Charles	2,723
9	David	2,707
10	Ronald	2,496
11	George	2,020
12	Edward	1,984
13	Donald	1,854
14	Michael	1,554
15	Paul	1,444
16	Kenneth	1,262
17	Frank	1,140
18	Larry	1,059
19	Raymond	1,032
20	Gerald	897
21	Dennis	855
22	Gary	854
23	Harry	850
24	Anthony	808
25	Daniel	764

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Walter	751
27	Francis	748
28	Stephen	660
29	Carl	632
30	Albert	627
31	Lawrence	586
32	Harold	585
33	Barry	577
34	Eugene	567
35	Ralph	539
36	Arthur	536
37	Louis	490
38	Samuel	474
39	Jack	452
40	Stanley	445
41	Peter	436
42	Henry	419
43	Fred	417
44	Wayne	411
45	Douglas	410
46	Howard	401
47	Frederick	387
48	Andrew	364
49	Leonard	356
50	Jerry	355
51	Philip	352
52	Bernard	342
53	Bruce	320
54	Terry	312
55	Roger	309
56	Norman	305
57	Russell	301
58	Earl	298
59	Patrick	296
60	Martin	294
61	Theodore	291
62	Glenn	286
63	Vincent	280
64	Dale	266
65	Roy	256
66	Alfred	244
67	Leroy	242
68	Melvin	239
69	Ernest	234
70	Clarence	214
71	Nicholas	211
72	Jay	210
73	Alan	205
74	Edwin	202
75	Allen	191
76	Victor	190
77	Herbert	180
78	Jerome	174
79	Ray	172
80	Timothy	169
81	Franklin	164
82	Warren	163
83	Lee	161
84	Mark	153
85	Steven	152
86	Jeffrey	150
87	Lewis	148
88	Clifford	143
89	Marvin	142
90	Chester	140
91	Gordon	139
91	Leo	139
93	Gene	138
94	Harvey	137
95	Clyde	136
96	Leon	129
97	Benjamin	125
98	Allan	124
99	Lloyd	118
100	Alvin	113
100	Lester	113
100	Phillip	113