Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1922

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	5,305
2	Helen	3,380
3	Dorothy	3,261
4	Margaret	2,539
5	Ruth	2,384
6	Rose	1,954
7	Anna	1,773
8	Florence	1,712
9	Frances	1,691
10	Marie	1,566
11	Elizabeth	1,453
12	Josephine	1,403
13	Catherine	1,355
14	Mildred	1,320
15	Virginia	1,239
16	Evelyn	1,238
17	Doris	1,234
18	Lillian	1,209
19	Shirley	1,198
20	Betty	1,148
21	Jean	1,132
22	Eleanor	1,096
23	Alice	1,094
24	Marion	1,058
25	Irene	987
26	Gloria	939
27	Rita	842
28	Beatrice	832
29	Grace	818
30	Sylvia	816
31	Ann	807
32	Edith	728
33	Marjorie	727
34	Anne	721
35	Gertrude	719
36	Jane	716
37	Muriel	685
38	Louise	645
39	Ethel	589
40	Barbara	586
41	Theresa	569
42	Esther	547
43	Gladys	517
44	Eileen	512
45	Norma	491
46	Edna	484
47	Julia	479
48	Jennie	473
49	Agnes	465
50	Charlotte	460

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,105
2	Robert	4,488
3	Joseph	4,248
4	William	4,247
5	James	2,749
6	George	2,601
7	Edward	2,542
8	Frank	2,383
9	Charles	2,343
10	Richard	1,754
11	Thomas	1,702
12	Anthony	1,421
13	Arthur	1,395
14	Harold	1,385
15	Donald	1,295
16	Walter	1,236
17	Louis	1,068
18	Michael	1,039
19	Raymond	1,031
20	Henry	1,020
21	Albert	1,003
22	Paul	933
23	Stanley	919
24	Harry	879
25	Vincent	852
26	Francis	837
27	Bernard	820
28	Jack	809
29	David	800
30	Peter	790
31	Howard	733
32	Herbert	713
33	Alfred	695
34	Kenneth	691
35	Leonard	670
36	Eugene	657
37	Irving	639
37	Ralph	639
39	Daniel	628
40	Lawrence	613
41	Philip	605
42	Martin	549
43	Norman	533
44	Frederick	525
45	Seymour	515
46	Fred	493
47	Salvatore	492
48	Theodore	448
49	Samuel	436
50	Nicholas	424