Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	5,502
2	Helen	4,015
3	Dorothy	2,928
4	Ruth	2,676
5	Margaret	2,673
6	Anna	2,276
7	Rose	2,254
8	Frances	1,823
9	Florence	1,697
10	Elizabeth	1,581
11	Marie	1,542
12	Josephine	1,500
13	Lillian	1,477
14	Catherine	1,422
15	Mildred	1,378
16	Evelyn	1,199
17	Sylvia	1,145
18	Eleanor	1,114
19	Marion	994
20	Virginia	989
21	Alice	982
22	Anne	964
23	Gertrude	956
24	Jean	931
25	Beatrice	915
26	Grace	909
27	Doris	813
28	Ann	812
29	Irene	768
30	Rita	762
31	Edith	715
31	Ethel	715
33	Esther	637
34	Louise	636
35	Marjorie	629
36	Betty	618
37	Jane	613
38	Edna	589
39	Julia	570
40	Agnes	569
41	Theresa	557
42	Ida	549
43	Katherine	539
44	Gladys	519
45	Martha	506
46	Jennie	498
47	Pauline	480
48	Clara	479
49	Sophie	478
50	Stella	473

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	5,759
2	Joseph	4,232
3	William	3,894
4	Robert	2,820
5	Charles	2,382
6	George	2,373
7	Edward	2,315
8	James	2,292
9	Frank	2,248
10	Anthony	1,388
11	Thomas	1,343
12	Arthur	1,236
13	Harold	1,224
14	Walter	1,161
15	Louis	1,153
16	Michael	1,077
17	Henry	1,069
18	Harry	1,038
19	Richard	1,007
20	Albert	933
21	Paul	889
22	Raymond	843
23	Francis	812
24	Donald	791
25	Stanley	781
26	Peter	777
26	Vincent	777
28	Bernard	737
29	David	718
30	Irving	707
31	Jack	694
32	Alfred	676
33	Frederick	632
34	Herbert	622
35	Samuel	618
36	Ralph	609
37	Howard	595
38	Philip	570
39	Leonard	544
40	Daniel	540
41	Kenneth	538
42	Sidney	517
43	Fred	488
44	Milton	474
45	Lawrence	470
46	Benjamin	469
47	Carl	468
48	Eugene	449
49	Leo	440
50	Salvatore	430