Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1948

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	7,300
2	Robert	6,931
3	James	5,773
4	William	5,491
5	Thomas	4,099
6	David	4,091
7	Richard	3,891
8	Joseph	3,574
9	Michael	3,159
10	Charles	2,641
11	Ronald	2,586
12	Edward	2,008
13	George	1,952
14	Donald	1,818
15	Dennis	1,714
16	Gary	1,597
17	Paul	1,591
18	Kenneth	1,551
19	Larry	1,406
20	Daniel	1,348
21	Frank	1,080
22	Stephen	1,056
23	Raymond	1,004
24	Anthony	859
25	Gerald	819

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Barry	778
27	Lawrence	769
28	Francis	760
29	Terry	742
30	Harry	734
31	Bruce	700
32	Walter	693
33	Gregory	661
34	Carl	582
35	Wayne	574
36	Albert	562
37	Timothy	541
38	Steven	529
39	Jeffrey	520
40	Mark	519
41	Ralph	490
42	Alan	477
43	Eugene	476
44	Peter	475
45	Harold	470
46	Stanley	468
47	Samuel	467
48	Philip	454
49	Frederick	453
50	Patrick	449
51	Louis	443
52	Arthur	432
53	Jack	427
54	Andrew	421
55	Dale	415
56	Howard	401
57	Glenn	393
58	Roger	381
59	Leonard	374
60	Henry	366
61	Russell	364
62	Douglas	351
63	Fred	338
64	Bernard	334
65	Vincent	322
66	Jerry	313
67	Martin	306
68	Allen	298
69	Earl	296
70	Norman	292
71	Roy	277
71	Theodore	277
73	Jay	270
74	Ernest	254
75	Craig	252
76	Nicholas	232
77	Keith	226
78	Alfred	220
79	Edwin	213
80	Christopher	208
81	Lee	207
82	Melvin	203
83	Leroy	200
84	Eric	199
85	Jerome	193
86	Warren	187
87	Clarence	181
88	Herbert	174
89	Brian	171
90	Rodney	169
91	Ray	162
92	Clifford	155
93	Harvey	153
94	Phillip	150
95	Lewis	145
96	Benjamin	138
97	Scott	134
98	Leo	131
99	Randall	129
99	Victor	129