Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1924

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	5,144
2	Dorothy	3,421
3	Helen	3,088
4	Margaret	2,457
5	Ruth	2,174
6	Rose	1,786
7	Anna	1,685
8	Florence	1,611
9	Frances	1,605
10	Marie	1,574
11	Gloria	1,546
12	Elizabeth	1,523
13	Shirley	1,499
14	Betty	1,439
15	Jean	1,412
16	Doris	1,324
17	Josephine	1,271
18	Mildred	1,254
19	Catherine	1,253
20	Virginia	1,233
21	Eleanor	1,223
22	Lillian	1,190
23	Evelyn	1,175
24	Alice	1,139
25	Marion	1,090
26	Irene	1,012
27	Rita	910
28	Ann	843
29	Grace	797
30	Jane	769
31	Marjorie	768
32	Beatrice	729
33	Barbara	723
34	Anne	703
35	Gertrude	692
36	Edith	683
37	Patricia	677
38	Sylvia	673
39	Louise	648
40	Muriel	631
41	Theresa	616
42	Joan	563
43	Phyllis	550
44	Eileen	545
45	June	528
46	Norma	523
47	Ethel	515
48	Elaine	505
49	Antoinette	491
50	Bernice	490

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,318
2	Robert	5,038
3	William	4,447
4	Joseph	4,220
5	James	2,864
6	Edward	2,752
7	George	2,613
8	Charles	2,434
9	Frank	2,336
10	Richard	2,059
11	Thomas	1,848
12	Donald	1,525
13	Anthony	1,497
14	Harold	1,411
15	Arthur	1,358
16	Walter	1,247
17	Raymond	1,148
18	Albert	1,037
19	Louis	1,024
20	Paul	969
21	Henry	966
22	Michael	924
23	Stanley	916
24	Harry	887
25	Vincent	871
26	David	855
27	Bernard	845
28	Francis	809
29	Alfred	803
30	Peter	774
31	Herbert	754
32	Jack	752
33	Eugene	745
34	Leonard	716
35	Kenneth	703
36	Ralph	686
37	Howard	681
38	Daniel	631
39	Philip	613
40	Lawrence	588
41	Fred	579
42	Irving	576
43	Norman	551
44	Seymour	541
45	Martin	533
46	Frederick	532
47	Salvatore	508
48	Gerald	466
49	Nicholas	460
50	Carl	431