Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1926

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	4,780
2	Dorothy	3,108
3	Helen	2,578
4	Margaret	2,203
5	Ruth	1,936
6	Gloria	1,871
7	Rose	1,688
8	Marie	1,586
9	Shirley	1,584
10	Jean	1,571
11	Anna	1,546
12	Betty	1,508
13	Florence	1,489
14	Frances	1,434
15	Elizabeth	1,398
16	Doris	1,379
17	Eleanor	1,145
18	Virginia	1,131
19	Alice	1,117
20	Josephine	1,116
21	Catherine	1,113
22	Evelyn	1,042
23	Mildred	1,033
24	Irene	1,016
25	Joan	988
26	Barbara	979
27	Lillian	976
28	Marion	965
29	Theresa	930
30	Patricia	913
31	Rita	871
32	Ann	825
33	Grace	783
34	Anne	656
34	Marjorie	656
36	Jane	655
37	Marilyn	653
38	June	625
39	Phyllis	623
40	Gertrude	607
41	Muriel	604
42	Norma	597
43	Edith	586
44	Beatrice	582
45	Louise	581
46	Eileen	574
47	Elaine	567
48	Sylvia	497
49	Bernice	475
50	Nancy	470

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,187
2	Robert	5,281
3	William	4,478
4	Joseph	4,114
5	James	3,089
6	Edward	2,582
7	George	2,550
8	Richard	2,502
9	Charles	2,408
10	Frank	2,205
11	Thomas	1,958
12	Donald	1,794
13	Anthony	1,489
14	Arthur	1,362
15	Harold	1,262
16	Walter	1,215
17	Raymond	1,164
18	Paul	1,103
19	Albert	1,017
20	Michael	989
21	Louis	980
22	Henry	961
23	Stanley	952
24	David	888
25	Vincent	850
26	Eugene	848
27	Bernard	837
28	Francis	823
29	Alfred	794
30	Jack	788
31	Peter	784
32	Kenneth	744
33	Ralph	738
34	Herbert	736
35	Leonard	731
36	Harry	723
37	Daniel	677
38	Lawrence	664
39	Howard	663
40	Fred	641
41	Norman	621
42	Philip	602
43	Martin	591
44	Gerald	550
45	Salvatore	513
46	Frederick	500
47	Irving	482
48	Carl	442
49	Seymour	441
50	Theodore	400