Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1945

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	5,769
2	Robert	5,444
3	James	4,760
4	William	4,244
5	Richard	3,485
6	Thomas	2,849
7	Joseph	2,757
8	David	2,741
9	Charles	2,146
10	Ronald	2,041
11	Michael	1,826
12	Edward	1,629
13	George	1,618
14	Donald	1,557
15	Paul	1,294
16	Kenneth	1,140
17	Dennis	1,067
18	Gary	1,056
19	Larry	987
20	Frank	917
21	Raymond	773
22	Daniel	744
23	Gerald	690
24	Harry	679
25	Anthony	633

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Stephen	592
27	Walter	580
28	Francis	563
29	Lawrence	525
30	Barry	515
31	Carl	473
32	Albert	455
33	Eugene	444
34	Harold	434
35	Jack	422
36	Terry	415
37	Samuel	406
38	Louis	405
39	Wayne	395
40	Arthur	384
41	Bruce	381
42	Ralph	374
43	Stanley	373
44	Peter	359
45	Howard	357
46	Frederick	354
47	Henry	346
48	Roger	344
49	Leonard	332
50	Fred	321
51	Dale	309
52	Alan	301
53	Andrew	293
54	Philip	285
55	Norman	270
56	Russell	269
57	Douglas	263
58	Earl	261
59	Bernard	254
60	Jerry	246
60	Roy	246
62	Glenn	233
62	Theodore	233
62	Vincent	233
65	Patrick	230
66	Mark	225
67	Jeffrey	223
68	Ernest	219
69	Steven	215
70	Timothy	214
71	Martin	212
72	Allen	196
73	Alfred	192
74	Nicholas	184
75	Jay	178
76	Melvin	177
77	Clarence	166
78	Lee	163
79	Victor	160
80	Leroy	157
81	Edwin	156
82	Ray	151
83	Gregory	143
84	Warren	142
85	Herbert	138
85	Jerome	138
87	Lewis	132
88	Marvin	130
89	Leon	127
90	Benjamin	123
91	Lester	119
91	Lloyd	119
93	Rodney	118
94	Eric	117
95	Franklin	116
96	Harvey	113
97	Leslie	110
98	Keith	106
99	Joel	105
100	Jon	104