Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1914

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	4,245
2	Helen	3,075
3	Dorothy	2,153
4	Margaret	2,032
5	Rose	2,025
6	Ruth	1,903
7	Anna	1,894
8	Frances	1,338
9	Florence	1,337
10	Elizabeth	1,238
11	Lillian	1,185
12	Mildred	1,160
13	Catherine	1,142
14	Josephine	1,106
15	Marie	1,092
16	Sylvia	914
17	Evelyn	911
18	Eleanor	811
19	Alice	810
20	Gertrude	808
21	Marion	799
22	Anne	734
23	Ethel	684
24	Grace	647
25	Jean	629
26	Beatrice	615
27	Ann	611
28	Rita	585
29	Edith	578
30	Irene	552
31	Louise	549
32	Virginia	496
33	Esther	495
34	Ida	480
35	Edna	468
36	Doris	455
37	Pauline	435
38	Katherine	432
39	Julia	426
40	Marjorie	418
41	Agnes	417
42	Gladys	415
43	Theresa	408
44	Jennie	403
45	Betty	380
46	Martha	349
47	Sarah	339
48	Elsie	337
49	Clara	335
49	Sophie	335

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	4,289
2	Joseph	3,328
3	William	2,986
4	Charles	1,854
5	George	1,839
6	Edward	1,771
7	Frank	1,751
8	James	1,743
9	Robert	1,723
10	Louis	1,070
11	Thomas	1,051
12	Anthony	1,029
13	Harold	945
14	Arthur	890
15	Harry	871
16	Walter	831
17	Henry	825
18	Michael	800
19	Albert	761
20	Richard	651
21	Paul	650
22	Samuel	614
23	Francis	610
24	Vincent	606
25	Raymond	605
26	David	588
27	Irving	581
28	Jack	557
29	Peter	554
30	Alfred	537
31	Bernard	497
32	Stanley	484
33	Sidney	453
34	Donald	449
35	Ralph	440
36	Morris	438
37	Frederick	436
37	Milton	436
39	Philip	419
40	Herbert	381
41	Howard	377
42	Kenneth	376
43	Abraham	349
44	Salvatore	345
45	Daniel	338
46	Leo	336
47	Lawrence	334
48	Carl	331
48	Fred	331
50	Nicholas	328