Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1944

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	5,967
2	Robert	5,624
3	James	4,849
4	William	4,305
5	Richard	3,338
6	Joseph	2,963
7	Thomas	2,856
8	David	2,671
9	Charles	2,395
10	Ronald	2,132
11	Edward	1,726
11	Michael	1,726
13	Donald	1,698
14	George	1,689
15	Paul	1,337
16	Kenneth	1,183
17	Gary	974
18	Larry	937
19	Frank	936
20	Dennis	858
21	Raymond	835
22	Daniel	793
23	Harry	770
24	Gerald	752
25	Walter	640

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Anthony	622
27	Francis	613
28	Barry	571
29	Lawrence	562
30	Stephen	554
31	Carl	531
32	Harold	498
33	Albert	497
34	Eugene	462
35	Arthur	457
36	Ralph	442
37	Wayne	418
38	Louis	396
39	Samuel	383
40	Frederick	382
41	Jack	378
42	Terry	375
43	Peter	360
44	Leonard	357
45	Henry	345
46	Stanley	342
47	Bruce	332
48	Howard	331
49	Roger	329
50	Fred	325
51	Philip	301
52	Bernard	295
53	Andrew	291
54	Dale	288
55	Norman	283
56	Jerry	282
57	Russell	279
58	Alan	260
59	Theodore	259
60	Patrick	254
61	Earl	251
62	Glenn	249
63	Vincent	248
64	Roy	236
65	Douglas	226
66	Ernest	221
66	Martin	221
68	Alfred	203
69	Mark	200
70	Jay	199
71	Allen	196
72	Steven	186
73	Timothy	185
74	Clarence	178
75	Melvin	173
76	Edwin	172
76	Jeffrey	172
78	Nicholas	165
79	Lee	163
80	Herbert	162
81	Warren	158
82	Leroy	154
83	Clifford	146
84	Victor	143
85	Jerome	140
85	Ray	140
87	Chester	139
88	Lewis	132
89	Harvey	128
90	Lloyd	125
91	Keith	123
92	Benjamin	121
93	Lester	115
94	Brian	112
94	Marvin	112
96	Leslie	107
97	Leon	106
98	Allan	104
99	Franklin	102
99	Leo	102