Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1923

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	5,158
2	Dorothy	3,395
3	Helen	3,224
4	Margaret	2,379
5	Ruth	2,361
6	Rose	1,796
7	Anna	1,641
8	Frances	1,627
9	Florence	1,625
10	Elizabeth	1,558
11	Marie	1,512
12	Josephine	1,376
13	Shirley	1,358
14	Betty	1,348
15	Catherine	1,311
16	Doris	1,269
17	Mildred	1,264
18	Lillian	1,261
19	Gloria	1,247
20	Eleanor	1,225
21	Virginia	1,224
22	Jean	1,214
23	Evelyn	1,133
24	Marion	1,097
25	Irene	1,059
26	Alice	1,018
27	Ann	861
28	Rita	834
29	Grace	818
30	Beatrice	786
31	Anne	756
32	Sylvia	743
33	Gertrude	728
34	Jane	716
35	Edith	712
36	Barbara	697
37	Muriel	693
38	Marjorie	689
39	Louise	646
40	Theresa	556
41	Ethel	555
42	Eileen	530
43	Norma	520
44	June	519
45	Gladys	495
46	Esther	494
46	Patricia	494
48	Edna	481
49	Agnes	473
50	Jennie	468

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,228
2	Robert	4,700
3	William	4,406
4	Joseph	4,208
5	James	2,690
6	Edward	2,637
7	George	2,595
8	Charles	2,421
9	Frank	2,304
10	Richard	1,819
11	Thomas	1,788
12	Anthony	1,455
13	Donald	1,426
14	Harold	1,414
15	Arthur	1,334
16	Walter	1,194
17	Raymond	1,104
18	Albert	1,045
19	Louis	1,035
20	Michael	1,004
21	Henry	996
22	Paul	973
23	Stanley	913
24	Harry	897
25	Bernard	886
26	Francis	830
26	Vincent	830
28	David	815
29	Jack	760
29	Peter	760
31	Alfred	739
32	Herbert	716
33	Eugene	709
34	Ralph	693
35	Kenneth	686
36	Howard	672
37	Lawrence	661
38	Irving	643
39	Daniel	635
40	Leonard	632
41	Philip	581
42	Fred	555
43	Martin	536
44	Norman	531
45	Salvatore	528
46	Frederick	527
47	Seymour	514
48	Theodore	461
49	Samuel	439
50	Nicholas	418