Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1925

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	4,914
2	Dorothy	3,329
3	Helen	2,759
4	Margaret	2,328
5	Ruth	2,150
6	Gloria	1,996
7	Rose	1,693
8	Marie	1,619
9	Betty	1,592
10	Anna	1,569
11	Jean	1,504
12	Florence	1,500
13	Shirley	1,459
14	Frances	1,441
15	Elizabeth	1,348
16	Doris	1,344
17	Josephine	1,305
18	Catherine	1,257
19	Virginia	1,206
20	Eleanor	1,192
21	Alice	1,115
22	Mildred	1,111
23	Evelyn	1,106
24	Irene	1,057
25	Lillian	1,043
26	Marion	982
27	Rita	899
28	Patricia	897
29	Barbara	878
30	Grace	845
31	Ann	842
32	Joan	836
33	Anne	734
34	Theresa	726
35	Beatrice	710
36	Marjorie	705
37	Jane	700
38	Muriel	682
39	Edith	637
40	June	624
41	Phyllis	600
42	Eileen	595
43	Louise	590
44	Norma	586
45	Sylvia	569
46	Gertrude	566
47	Elaine	508
48	Bernice	484
49	Marilyn	476
49	Nancy	476

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,133
2	Robert	5,092
3	William	4,629
4	Joseph	4,088
5	James	3,014
6	Edward	2,687
7	George	2,518
8	Charles	2,396
9	Richard	2,357
10	Frank	2,306
11	Thomas	1,851
12	Donald	1,674
13	Anthony	1,419
14	Arthur	1,376
15	Harold	1,317
16	Walter	1,173
17	Raymond	1,151
18	Paul	1,043
19	Louis	1,014
20	Albert	992
21	Henry	988
22	Michael	961
23	Stanley	955
24	David	889
25	Bernard	880
26	Vincent	870
27	Francis	852
28	Jack	808
29	Harry	804
30	Peter	780
31	Eugene	778
32	Alfred	759
33	Daniel	734
34	Howard	730
35	Kenneth	720
35	Ralph	720
37	Leonard	714
38	Herbert	705
39	Lawrence	591
40	Norman	579
41	Philip	565
42	Fred	544
43	Martin	527
44	Irving	522
45	Salvatore	520
46	Frederick	519
47	Gerald	517
48	Seymour	438
49	Nicholas	404
50	Theodore	402