Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1955
Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | John | 6,515 |
| 2 | Robert | 6,237 |
| 3 | David | 5,951 |
| 4 | Michael | 5,407 |
| 5 | James | 5,243 |
| 6 | William | 4,659 |
| 7 | Richard | 3,861 |
| 8 | Thomas | 3,806 |
| 9 | Joseph | 3,641 |
| 10 | Mark | 2,515 |
| 11 | Charles | 2,200 |
| 12 | Gary | 2,084 |
| 13 | Jeffrey | 2,059 |
| 14 | Donald | 1,896 |
| 15 | Edward | 1,843 |
| 16 | Daniel | 1,806 |
| 17 | Paul | 1,786 |
| 18 | Ronald | 1,715 |
| 19 | Stephen | 1,654 |
| 20 | Dennis | 1,572 |
| 21 | Kenneth | 1,544 |
| 22 | George | 1,479 |
| 23 | Steven | 1,359 |
| 24 | Timothy | 1,279 |
| 25 | Kevin | 1,158 |
| Rank | Name | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | Gregory | 1,155 |
| 27 | Anthony | 1,093 |
| 28 | Bruce | 926 |
| 29 | Frank | 853 |
| 30 | Raymond | 840 |
| 31 | Keith | 831 |
| 32 | Douglas | 806 |
| 33 | Larry | 792 |
| 34 | Randy | 716 |
| 34 | Scott | 716 |
| 36 | Francis | 669 |
| 37 | Terry | 668 |
| 38 | Lawrence | 656 |
| 39 | Barry | 642 |
| 40 | Peter | 630 |
| 41 | Patrick | 620 |
| 42 | Wayne | 598 |
| 43 | Gerald | 569 |
| 44 | Brian | 566 |
| 45 | Walter | 550 |
| 46 | Carl | 542 |
| 47 | Harry | 533 |
| 48 | Alan | 514 |
| 49 | Andrew | 511 |
| 50 | Craig | 497 |
| 51 | Christopher | 484 |
| 52 | Samuel | 452 |
| 53 | Dale | 449 |
| 54 | Glenn | 448 |
| 55 | Philip | 429 |
| 56 | Ralph | 419 |
| 57 | Albert | 418 |
| 58 | Frederick | 412 |
| 59 | Roger | 390 |
| 60 | Eugene | 374 |
| 61 | Russell | 373 |
| 62 | Stanley | 364 |
| 63 | Arthur | 361 |
| 64 | Louis | 357 |
| 65 | Harold | 355 |
| 66 | Martin | 352 |
| 67 | Eric | 347 |
| 68 | Vincent | 343 |
| 69 | Jack | 324 |
| 70 | Jay | 319 |
| 71 | Rodney | 316 |
| 72 | Leonard | 307 |
| 73 | Howard | 295 |
| 74 | Jerry | 283 |
| 75 | Allen | 278 |
| 76 | Henry | 274 |
| 77 | Randall | 273 |
| 78 | Theodore | 272 |
| 79 | Roy | 259 |
| 80 | Nicholas | 249 |
| 81 | Bernard | 242 |
| 82 | Matthew | 236 |
| 83 | Jeffery | 230 |
| 84 | Kim | 221 |
| 85 | Lee | 217 |
| 86 | Earl | 216 |
| 87 | Ricky | 212 |
| 88 | Curtis | 204 |
| 89 | Bradley | 203 |
| 90 | Dean | 200 |
| 91 | Norman | 199 |
| 92 | Fred | 198 |
| 93 | Jerome | 194 |
| 94 | Jonathan | 193 |
| 95 | Ernest | 173 |
| 96 | Edwin | 171 |
| 97 | Marc | 169 |
| 97 | Steve | 169 |
| 99 | Gerard | 157 |
| 100 | Alfred | 155 |