Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1918

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	5,523
2	Helen	4,091
3	Dorothy	3,252
4	Margaret	2,764
5	Ruth	2,720
6	Anna	2,243
7	Rose	2,196
8	Frances	1,894
9	Florence	1,893
10	Elizabeth	1,646
11	Marie	1,545
12	Lillian	1,475
13	Catherine	1,454
14	Mildred	1,438
15	Josephine	1,425
16	Evelyn	1,366
17	Sylvia	1,227
18	Eleanor	1,179
19	Virginia	1,142
20	Marion	1,044
21	Alice	975
22	Grace	957
23	Jean	950
24	Doris	946
25	Gertrude	911
26	Beatrice	880
27	Anne	840
28	Rita	835
29	Irene	832
30	Ann	802
31	Edith	792
32	Betty	753
33	Marjorie	702
34	Louise	673
35	Ethel	666
36	Jane	660
37	Shirley	622
38	Edna	600
38	Julia	600
40	Esther	594
41	Gladys	579
42	Theresa	573
43	Katherine	566
44	Agnes	531
45	Pauline	506
46	Jennie	503
47	Muriel	498
48	Ida	470
49	Pearl	468
50	Martha	456

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,058
2	Joseph	4,319
3	William	4,040
4	Robert	3,293
5	Charles	2,547
6	Edward	2,543
7	James	2,507
8	George	2,474
9	Frank	2,385
10	Thomas	1,506
11	Harold	1,427
12	Arthur	1,422
13	Anthony	1,344
14	Walter	1,306
15	Louis	1,194
16	Richard	1,141
17	Henry	1,099
18	Michael	1,073
19	Harry	1,044
20	Albert	996
21	Raymond	945
22	Francis	927
23	Donald	879
24	Paul	861
25	Stanley	846
26	Peter	837
27	Vincent	796
28	Bernard	794
29	Jack	738
30	David	727
31	Irving	715
32	Alfred	703
33	Ralph	666
34	Howard	611
35	Herbert	602
36	Philip	591
37	Kenneth	571
38	Leonard	554
39	Samuel	549
40	Frederick	547
41	Daniel	546
42	Milton	533
43	Sidney	526
44	Eugene	515
45	Lawrence	502
46	Salvatore	474
47	Victor	457
48	Morris	440
49	Leo	437
50	Fred	434