Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1921

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	5,413
2	Helen	3,605
3	Dorothy	3,367
4	Margaret	2,699
5	Ruth	2,569
6	Rose	2,029
7	Anna	1,928
8	Frances	1,854
9	Florence	1,725
10	Marie	1,661
11	Elizabeth	1,589
12	Josephine	1,404
13	Catherine	1,396
14	Mildred	1,350
15	Virginia	1,272
16	Doris	1,239
16	Lillian	1,239
18	Evelyn	1,213
19	Eleanor	1,208
20	Marion	1,107
21	Jean	1,093
22	Alice	1,064
23	Shirley	1,053
24	Irene	1,023
25	Betty	974
26	Sylvia	917
27	Beatrice	902
28	Grace	876
29	Marjorie	858
30	Rita	853
31	Gertrude	772
32	Edith	762
33	Anne	747
34	Ann	709
35	Jane	694
36	Louise	649
37	Muriel	628
38	Gloria	611
39	Ethel	610
40	Theresa	601
41	Barbara	591
42	Gladys	559
43	Esther	544
44	Edna	535
45	Katherine	534
46	Norma	503
47	Jennie	497
48	Charlotte	477
49	Eileen	469
50	Agnes	467

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,036
2	William	4,271
3	Robert	4,255
4	Joseph	4,195
5	James	2,816
6	George	2,613
7	Edward	2,544
8	Charles	2,450
9	Frank	2,355
10	Richard	1,558
11	Thomas	1,554
12	Anthony	1,478
13	Harold	1,393
14	Arthur	1,363
15	Walter	1,251
16	Donald	1,187
17	Raymond	1,083
18	Henry	1,080
19	Louis	1,049
20	Michael	1,046
21	Albert	966
22	Paul	963
23	Harry	922
24	Bernard	884
25	Stanley	841
26	Vincent	824
27	Francis	815
28	Peter	787
29	Jack	786
30	David	747
31	Herbert	706
32	Alfred	700
33	Howard	699
34	Ralph	685
35	Leonard	647
36	Irving	646
37	Eugene	644
38	Kenneth	638
39	Frederick	586
40	Lawrence	584
41	Philip	576
42	Daniel	574
43	Warren	573
44	Fred	514
45	Norman	503
45	Samuel	503
47	Martin	500
48	Seymour	480
49	Salvatore	459
50	Nicholas	454