Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1943

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,444
2	Robert	6,245
3	James	5,264
4	William	4,940
5	Richard	3,742
6	Joseph	3,334
7	Thomas	3,146
8	David	2,649
9	Charles	2,633
10	Ronald	2,572
11	George	1,978
12	Edward	1,938
13	Donald	1,836
14	Michael	1,740
15	Paul	1,436
16	Kenneth	1,327
17	Frank	1,086
18	Larry	1,026
19	Raymond	1,000
20	Gary	954
21	Dennis	905
22	Gerald	847
23	Harry	806
24	Walter	805
25	Daniel	800

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Anthony	744
27	Francis	694
28	Stephen	668
29	Carl	628
30	Barry	620
31	Lawrence	582
32	Albert	571
33	Harold	541
34	Eugene	536
35	Ralph	528
36	Arthur	468
37	Louis	467
38	Stanley	457
39	Peter	448
40	Samuel	446
41	Jack	435
42	Henry	417
43	Wayne	416
44	Terry	415
45	Frederick	411
46	Howard	400
47	Leonard	396
48	Fred	385
49	Andrew	373
50	Bruce	362
51	Jerry	348
52	Dale	342
53	Bernard	334
54	Roger	325
55	Philip	324
56	Earl	314
57	Glenn	313
58	Vincent	301
59	Theodore	296
60	Russell	295
61	Norman	287
62	Alfred	274
62	Roy	274
64	Patrick	270
65	Martin	267
66	Alan	260
67	Douglas	236
68	Allen	233
69	Leroy	230
70	Melvin	224
71	Mark	222
72	Ernest	209
73	Clarence	204
74	Edwin	200
75	Herbert	197
76	Nicholas	195
77	Lee	183
78	Warren	180
79	Steven	179
80	Jerome	177
80	Victor	177
82	Timothy	175
83	Jay	173
84	Jeffrey	158
85	Ray	150
86	Clifford	149
87	Harvey	144
88	Gene	138
89	Lloyd	135
90	Benjamin	133
91	Chester	131
91	Lewis	131
93	Leon	128
94	Marvin	126
95	Rodney	120
96	Brian	118
96	Clyde	118
98	Gordon	114
99	Franklin	113
100	Allan	110
100	Steve	110