Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1915

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	5,342
2	Helen	3,957
3	Dorothy	2,725
4	Margaret	2,584
5	Ruth	2,489
6	Rose	2,355
7	Anna	2,320
8	Frances	1,665
9	Florence	1,571
10	Lillian	1,546
11	Elizabeth	1,518
12	Mildred	1,438
13	Marie	1,413
14	Catherine	1,407
15	Josephine	1,384
16	Evelyn	1,147
17	Sylvia	1,109
18	Eleanor	1,048
19	Alice	1,005
20	Gertrude	949
21	Marion	937
22	Grace	911
23	Anne	871
24	Jean	809
25	Irene	772
26	Rita	742
27	Beatrice	740
28	Doris	726
29	Edith	695
30	Ann	688
31	Louise	684
32	Virginia	683
33	Ethel	667
34	Edna	632
35	Esther	578
36	Julia	567
37	Pauline	556
38	Marjorie	554
39	Theresa	543
40	Jennie	540
41	Ida	523
42	Agnes	507
43	Katherine	505
44	Betty	480
45	Gladys	467
46	Elsie	445
47	Stella	440
48	Sophie	439
49	Jane	434
50	Bertha	431

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	5,180
2	Joseph	3,764
3	William	3,666
4	Charles	2,315
5	Robert	2,242
6	Frank	2,215
6	James	2,215
8	Edward	2,186
9	George	2,178
10	Anthony	1,297
11	Thomas	1,289
12	Harold	1,201
13	Louis	1,188
14	Arthur	1,086
15	Walter	1,046
16	Harry	1,017
17	Michael	1,016
18	Henry	974
19	Richard	872
20	Albert	868
21	Paul	850
22	Francis	787
23	Vincent	716
24	Raymond	710
25	David	687
26	Peter	685
27	Irving	667
28	Stanley	662
29	Bernard	659
30	Jack	652
31	Samuel	635
32	Donald	629
33	Alfred	611
34	Ralph	549
35	Philip	536
36	Frederick	531
37	Herbert	528
38	Sidney	526
39	Howard	520
40	Daniel	503
41	Milton	486
42	Kenneth	467
43	Morris	463
44	Fred	460
45	Leonard	437
46	Lawrence	432
47	Nicholas	415
48	Carl	411
49	Salvatore	397
50	Leo	396