Most popular boys’ names in Pennsylvania, 1959

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,047
2	Robert	5,592
3	David	5,516
4	Michael	5,482
5	James	5,180
6	William	4,011
7	Mark	3,813
8	Thomas	3,451
9	Richard	3,382
10	Joseph	3,302
11	Jeffrey	2,168
12	Timothy	1,932
13	Charles	1,895
14	Daniel	1,824
15	Kevin	1,744
16	Paul	1,602
17	Edward	1,583
18	Ronald	1,582
19	Steven	1,576
20	Donald	1,533
21	Kenneth	1,436
22	Brian	1,421
23	Gary	1,380
24	Stephen	1,314
25	Scott	1,275

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Anthony	1,261
27	Gregory	1,185
28	George	1,178
29	Dennis	979
30	Frank	891
31	Douglas	878
32	Christopher	820
33	Keith	810
34	Randy	763
35	Raymond	718
36	Bruce	709
37	Eric	696
38	Larry	664
39	Patrick	645
40	Craig	632
41	Andrew	604
42	Peter	592
43	Terry	576
44	Barry	523
45	Dale	514
46	Wayne	513
47	Carl	498
48	Matthew	468
49	Alan	459
50	Francis	456
51	Gerald	447
52	Philip	440
53	Lawrence	435
54	Walter	433
55	Glenn	412
56	Harry	401
57	Samuel	391
58	Russell	379
59	Steve	370
60	Vincent	366
61	Ricky	362
62	Albert	351
63	Ralph	350
64	Mike	344
65	Eugene	343
66	Jeff	339
67	Louis	331
68	Martin	324
69	Randall	323
70	Roger	313
71	Jay	312
72	Todd	308
73	Chris	297
73	Dean	297
75	Arthur	296
76	Rodney	288
77	Jerry	286
78	Leonard	284
79	Frederick	279
80	Jeffery	274
80	Tim	274
82	Howard	270
83	Harold	264
84	Henry	255
85	Theodore	250
86	Nicholas	243
87	Dave	240
88	Stanley	239
89	Bryan	238
90	Curtis	235
91	Tom	229
92	Jack	226
93	Fred	221
94	Rick	218
95	Allen	216
95	Bradley	216
97	Jonathan	207
98	Roy	206
99	Bernard	202
100	Jim	198