Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1911

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,322
2	Helen	1,481
3	Margaret	1,194
4	Dorothy	1,101
5	Rose	1,054
6	Anna	1,006
7	Ruth	865
8	Frances	748
9	Lillian	689
10	Florence	676
11	Elizabeth	649
12	Mildred	645
13	Catherine	590
14	Marie	581
15	Josephine	497
16	Alice	476
17	Evelyn	407
18	Gertrude	400
18	Marion	400
20	Anne	385
21	Sylvia	374
22	Beatrice	363
22	Grace	363
24	Ann	338
25	Edna	320
25	Eleanor	320
27	Irene	318
28	Jean	313
29	Ethel	310
30	Edith	301
31	Louise	276
32	Esther	263
33	Julia	254
34	Gladys	244
35	Agnes	241
35	Ida	241
37	Virginia	233
38	Betty	231
39	Katherine	227
40	Pauline	223
41	Marjorie	221
42	Theresa	212
43	Doris	208
44	Elsie	201
45	Bertha	196
46	Jennie	193
47	Martha	191
48	Sarah	188
49	Hazel	177
50	Emma	166

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	1,624
2	Joseph	1,269
3	William	1,122
4	George	782
5	James	750
6	Charles	733
7	Frank	728
8	Edward	646
9	Robert	526
10	Thomas	444
11	Louis	420
12	Harry	415
13	Anthony	410
14	Harold	368
15	Michael	353
16	Arthur	322
17	Henry	301
18	Albert	286
19	Walter	279
20	Jack	263
21	Irving	258
22	Samuel	238
23	Richard	233
24	David	228
25	Paul	216
26	Francis	212
27	Alfred	209
28	Philip	193
29	Peter	189
30	Raymond	184
31	Frederick	178
32	Morris	177
33	Benjamin	172
34	Sidney	171
35	Ralph	166
36	Bernard	165
37	Vincent	160
38	Fred	155
39	Abraham	146
40	Max	141
41	Milton	140
42	Donald	138
42	Howard	138
44	Stanley	137
45	Sam	135
46	Herbert	133
46	Kenneth	133
48	Leo	124
49	Martin	121
50	Daniel	118