Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1950

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,855
2	Robert	6,562
3	James	5,550
4	William	4,883
5	David	4,309
6	Thomas	3,932
7	Richard	3,801
8	Michael	3,697
9	Joseph	3,423
10	Charles	2,553
11	Ronald	2,152
12	Dennis	1,999
13	Gary	1,906
14	Edward	1,885
15	Donald	1,784
16	George	1,737
17	Paul	1,602
18	Kenneth	1,435
19	Daniel	1,373
20	Stephen	1,342
21	Larry	1,222
22	Raymond	940
23	Mark	928
24	Frank	917
25	Anthony	843

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Bruce	812
27	Gregory	807
28	Gerald	757
29	Steven	754
30	Lawrence	744
31	Francis	716
32	Harry	702
33	Jeffrey	695
34	Barry	692
35	Timothy	678
36	Terry	663
37	Wayne	659
38	Walter	629
39	Douglas	561
40	Carl	533
41	Alan	522
42	Albert	505
43	Peter	503
44	Eugene	493
45	Patrick	489
46	Andrew	476
47	Stanley	472
48	Frederick	468
49	Samuel	460
50	Dale	452
51	Ralph	451
52	Louis	410
53	Arthur	407
53	Harold	407
55	Philip	406
56	Glenn	400
57	Jack	395
58	Roger	391
59	Howard	374
60	Leonard	366
61	Martin	347
62	Henry	340
63	Craig	324
64	Jerry	318
65	Bernard	316
65	Vincent	316
67	Russell	306
68	Keith	298
69	Christopher	283
70	Allen	282
71	Theodore	281
72	Scott	280
73	Nicholas	271
74	Earl	249
75	Brian	241
76	Roy	237
77	Jay	232
78	Kevin	230
79	Norman	229
80	Eric	227
81	Fred	223
82	Ernest	214
83	Lee	210
84	Rodney	208
85	Edwin	207
86	Alfred	197
87	Jerome	186
87	Melvin	186
89	Randall	185
90	Clifford	174
91	Phillip	167
92	Leroy	161
93	Warren	158
94	Dean	153
95	Victor	148
96	Clarence	145
97	Lewis	144
98	Herbert	138
98	Randy	138
100	Benjamin	137