Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1919

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	5,060
2	Helen	3,737
3	Dorothy	3,087
4	Ruth	2,664
5	Margaret	2,363
6	Anna	2,037
7	Rose	2,019
8	Frances	1,775
9	Florence	1,671
10	Elizabeth	1,541
11	Josephine	1,490
12	Mildred	1,446
13	Marie	1,424
14	Lillian	1,413
15	Catherine	1,322
16	Evelyn	1,279
17	Virginia	1,139
18	Eleanor	1,134
19	Sylvia	1,083
20	Alice	1,030
21	Marion	995
22	Jean	977
23	Doris	954
24	Gertrude	937
25	Grace	888
26	Irene	885
27	Beatrice	882
28	Rita	832
29	Betty	787
30	Anne	759
31	Edith	758
32	Shirley	728
33	Ann	713
34	Jane	654
35	Marjorie	605
36	Louise	600
37	Ethel	598
38	Esther	596
39	Edna	566
40	Gladys	562
41	Jennie	535
41	Theresa	535
43	Julia	522
44	Katherine	504
45	Muriel	496
46	Pauline	482
47	Agnes	481
48	Charlotte	466
49	Ida	450
50	Pearl	442

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	5,764
2	Joseph	3,899
3	William	3,835
4	Robert	3,275
5	Edward	2,393
6	James	2,372
7	George	2,351
8	Charles	2,252
9	Frank	2,175
10	Thomas	1,447
11	Harold	1,371
12	Anthony	1,296
13	Walter	1,232
14	Arthur	1,201
15	Richard	1,175
16	Louis	1,087
17	Henry	1,037
18	Albert	970
19	Raymond	950
20	Michael	939
21	Harry	914
22	Paul	891
23	Donald	845
24	Francis	829
25	Bernard	820
26	Stanley	781
27	David	722
28	Vincent	720
29	Peter	713
30	Jack	692
31	Irving	691
32	Alfred	686
33	Herbert	614
34	Howard	598
35	Ralph	571
36	Philip	549
37	Leonard	545
38	Daniel	541
39	Lawrence	533
40	Frederick	522
41	Kenneth	506
42	Eugene	500
43	Milton	483
44	Fred	480
45	Theodore	475
46	Samuel	473
47	Salvatore	472
48	Sidney	443
49	Martin	429
50	Norman	420