Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1956

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,534
2	Robert	6,256
3	David	5,674
4	Michael	5,605
5	James	5,416
6	William	4,557
7	Joseph	3,727
8	Richard	3,717
9	Thomas	3,696
10	Mark	3,008
11	Charles	2,128
12	Jeffrey	2,095
13	Gary	1,962
14	Edward	1,895
15	Donald	1,818
16	Daniel	1,815
17	Ronald	1,799
18	Paul	1,700
19	Kenneth	1,579
20	Steven	1,571
21	Kevin	1,550
22	Stephen	1,523
23	Timothy	1,424
24	George	1,381
25	Dennis	1,306

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Gregory	1,174
27	Anthony	1,160
28	Bruce	953
29	Brian	922
30	Frank	912
31	Scott	895
32	Keith	888
33	Douglas	884
34	Raymond	881
35	Randy	824
36	Larry	794
37	Patrick	659
38	Barry	653
39	Terry	632
40	Gerald	616
41	Peter	601
42	Lawrence	596
43	Wayne	589
44	Francis	577
45	Dale	554
46	Walter	527
47	Harry	514
48	Carl	501
49	Andrew	493
50	Alan	492
50	Craig	492
50	Glenn	492
53	Christopher	489
54	Samuel	460
55	Philip	432
56	Louis	416
57	Eugene	410
58	Martin	403
59	Vincent	401
60	Russell	398
61	Albert	386
62	Frederick	378
63	Leonard	377
64	Ralph	375
65	Arthur	352
66	Roger	349
67	Eric	348
68	Harold	345
69	Rodney	340
70	Stanley	338
71	Howard	322
72	Jack	318
73	Jay	303
74	Henry	300
75	Theodore	292
76	Randall	289
77	Matthew	288
78	Jerry	285
79	Jeffery	280
80	Nicholas	257
81	Allen	248
82	Ricky	243
83	Dean	240
84	Earl	239
85	Fred	238
86	Roy	237
87	Bernard	232
88	Norman	216
89	Lee	211
90	Jonathan	203
91	Ernest	196
92	Joel	194
93	Curtis	192
94	Bradley	186
95	Gerard	178
96	Jerome	177
97	Steve	162
98	Kurt	161
98	Victor	161
100	Tyrone	160