Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1951

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	7,039
2	Robert	6,895
3	James	5,716
4	William	5,290
5	David	4,603
6	Thomas	4,161
7	Richard	4,120
8	Michael	4,084
9	Joseph	3,490
10	Charles	2,591
11	Gary	2,294
12	Dennis	2,194
13	Ronald	2,103
14	Edward	2,043
15	Donald	1,901
16	George	1,711
17	Paul	1,695
18	Kenneth	1,640
19	Daniel	1,607
20	Stephen	1,466
21	Larry	1,162
22	Mark	1,109
23	Steven	1,011
24	Frank	982
25	Bruce	965

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Anthony	940
27	Raymond	922
28	Jeffrey	875
29	Gregory	850
30	Lawrence	800
31	Timothy	778
32	Barry	763
33	Francis	744
34	Gerald	739
35	Harry	710
36	Wayne	658
37	Terry	620
38	Douglas	603
39	Walter	587
40	Carl	565
41	Patrick	555
42	Albert	531
43	Alan	524
44	Peter	509
45	Eugene	507
46	Samuel	506
47	Andrew	478
48	Frederick	469
49	Dale	465
50	Ralph	457
51	Glenn	455
52	Louis	425
53	Philip	420
54	Harold	419
55	Stanley	403
56	Keith	401
57	Howard	399
57	Jack	399
59	Arthur	389
60	Roger	375
61	Leonard	357
62	Henry	345
62	Martin	345
64	Craig	338
64	Scott	338
66	Vincent	334
67	Russell	330
68	Kevin	325
69	Christopher	312
70	Theodore	305
71	Allen	303
72	Bernard	296
73	Nicholas	295
74	Jerry	283
75	Earl	258
76	Jay	255
77	Eric	251
78	Roy	250
79	Fred	247
80	Brian	243
81	Rodney	233
82	Randy	229
83	Jerome	228
84	Edwin	204
84	Ernest	204
86	Randall	203
87	Alfred	201
88	Lee	199
89	Norman	189
90	Dean	184
91	Clifford	176
92	Warren	166
93	Herbert	157
94	Benjamin	156
95	Melvin	155
96	Clarence	152
97	Phillip	149
98	Victor	144
99	Karl	143
100	Leo	137