Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1953

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,796
2	Robert	6,726
3	James	5,635
4	David	5,248
5	William	4,857
6	Michael	4,850
7	Richard	4,269
8	Thomas	4,008
9	Joseph	3,331
10	Charles	2,393
11	Gary	2,300
12	Dennis	1,943
13	Donald	1,900
14	Edward	1,883
15	Ronald	1,872
16	Paul	1,791
17	Daniel	1,642
18	George	1,622
19	Mark	1,566
20	Kenneth	1,550
21	Jeffrey	1,488
22	Stephen	1,471
23	Steven	1,239
24	Anthony	1,023
25	Timothy	1,015

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Gregory	969
27	Larry	957
28	Frank	928
29	Raymond	915
30	Bruce	891
31	Lawrence	698
32	Francis	689
33	Barry	660
34	Gerald	623
35	Terry	619
36	Douglas	613
37	Kevin	604
38	Harry	597
38	Patrick	597
40	Wayne	593
41	Walter	577
42	Keith	563
43	Peter	539
44	Carl	535
45	Alan	528
46	Dale	519
47	Andrew	516
48	Randy	507
49	Philip	470
50	Craig	465
51	Eugene	444
51	Scott	444
53	Samuel	441
54	Albert	439
55	Frederick	438
55	Ralph	438
57	Glenn	434
58	Louis	405
59	Harold	396
60	Arthur	394
61	Roger	391
62	Howard	378
63	Rodney	362
64	Brian	359
64	Stanley	359
66	Jack	351
67	Martin	344
68	Russell	325
69	Jay	323
70	Vincent	322
71	Leonard	307
72	Allen	303
73	Christopher	300
73	Jerry	300
75	Henry	294
76	Roy	289
77	Theodore	284
78	Bernard	275
79	Eric	271
80	Nicholas	269
81	Randall	247
82	Ricky	244
83	Norman	234
84	Earl	230
85	Fred	228
86	Ernest	217
86	Lee	217
88	Dean	213
89	Jerome	203
90	Alfred	174
91	Matthew	171
92	Clifford	164
92	Victor	164
92	Warren	164
95	Edwin	163
96	Curtis	162
97	Clarence	158
98	Melvin	157
99	Gerard	154
100	Bradley	152