Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1949

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	7,028
2	Robert	6,673
3	James	5,624
4	William	5,204
5	David	4,352
6	Richard	3,863
7	Thomas	3,836
8	Michael	3,437
9	Joseph	3,339
10	Charles	2,540
11	Ronald	2,400
12	Edward	2,099
13	George	1,896
14	Dennis	1,825
15	Donald	1,762
16	Gary	1,636
17	Paul	1,576
18	Kenneth	1,453
19	Daniel	1,335
20	Stephen	1,311
21	Larry	1,308
22	Frank	1,048
23	Raymond	928
24	Anthony	838
25	Bruce	794

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Lawrence	792
27	Francis	787
28	Barry	780
29	Gerald	776
30	Mark	771
31	Harry	733
32	Gregory	721
33	Walter	684
34	Steven	631
35	Terry	628
36	Jeffrey	626
37	Timothy	589
38	Carl	574
39	Wayne	571
40	Albert	508
41	Alan	500
42	Patrick	499
43	Douglas	493
44	Eugene	489
45	Peter	485
46	Frederick	484
47	Samuel	483
48	Ralph	477
49	Andrew	461
50	Stanley	456
51	Philip	450
52	Harold	446
53	Glenn	436
54	Louis	431
55	Dale	419
56	Arthur	411
57	Jack	376
58	Russell	375
59	Henry	371
60	Howard	361
61	Leonard	354
62	Roger	350
63	Martin	343
64	Jerry	322
65	Vincent	316
66	Bernard	311
67	Theodore	296
68	Allen	295
69	Fred	277
70	Jay	260
71	Norman	253
71	Roy	253
73	Nicholas	252
74	Craig	249
75	Earl	239
76	Christopher	228
77	Ernest	221
78	Keith	219
79	Lee	210
80	Melvin	199
81	Alfred	194
82	Jerome	191
83	Brian	189
83	Rodney	189
85	Scott	188
86	Randall	179
87	Eric	173
88	Edwin	163
88	Leroy	163
90	Herbert	161
91	Clarence	155
91	Phillip	155
93	Clifford	146
94	Kevin	145
95	Warren	144
96	Ray	142
97	Lewis	139
98	Victor	137
99	Leo	136
99	Leon	136