Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1952

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	7,087
2	Robert	6,712
3	James	5,524
4	William	5,177
5	David	5,128
6	Michael	4,536
7	Richard	4,411
8	Thomas	4,130
9	Joseph	3,507
10	Charles	2,379
11	Gary	2,366
12	Dennis	2,318
13	Ronald	2,026
14	Edward	1,976
15	Donald	1,924
16	Paul	1,724
17	Daniel	1,701
18	George	1,690
19	Kenneth	1,526
20	Stephen	1,515
21	Mark	1,405
22	Steven	1,169
23	Jeffrey	1,154
24	Larry	1,050
25	Frank	969

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Anthony	968
27	Bruce	964
28	Gregory	889
29	Raymond	888
30	Timothy	817
31	Lawrence	802
32	Barry	723
33	Francis	713
34	Gerald	709
35	Harry	636
36	Patrick	608
37	Douglas	603
38	Terry	599
39	Keith	594
40	Walter	590
41	Wayne	589
42	Peter	581
43	Alan	552
44	Carl	547
45	Glenn	495
46	Albert	492
47	Andrew	488
48	Dale	485
49	Samuel	482
50	Ralph	472
51	Louis	446
52	Kevin	442
53	Frederick	433
54	Eugene	430
55	Craig	408
56	Philip	403
57	Stanley	399
58	Roger	396
59	Randy	390
60	Howard	382
60	Scott	382
62	Arthur	380
63	Christopher	374
63	Harold	374
65	Leonard	360
66	Martin	354
67	Vincent	352
68	Russell	349
69	Jack	346
70	Henry	325
71	Theodore	309
72	Jerry	305
73	Allen	303
74	Bernard	298
75	Brian	289
75	Eric	289
77	Jay	274
78	Roy	262
79	Nicholas	260
80	Randall	251
81	Lee	234
82	Fred	232
83	Norman	231
84	Dean	230
85	Ernest	229
85	Rodney	229
87	Earl	219
88	Jerome	218
89	Curtis	193
90	Warren	181
91	Melvin	179
92	Clifford	178
93	Alfred	161
94	Victor	159
95	Edwin	157
96	Clarence	154
97	Benjamin	153
98	Ray	148
99	Gerard	146
100	Leroy	142