Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1927

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	5,095
2	Dorothy	2,995
3	Helen	2,481
4	Margaret	2,183
5	Ruth	1,820
6	Shirley	1,732
7	Gloria	1,704
8	Marie	1,663
9	Jean	1,648
10	Rose	1,604
11	Betty	1,598
12	Anna	1,530
13	Doris	1,449
14	Florence	1,418
15	Frances	1,410
16	Elizabeth	1,283
17	Joan	1,262
18	Barbara	1,240
19	Eleanor	1,154
20	Catherine	1,130
21	Josephine	1,125
22	Virginia	1,112
23	Theresa	1,095
24	Alice	1,061
24	Patricia	1,061
26	Mildred	1,035
27	Evelyn	1,008
28	Irene	960
29	Rita	935
30	Lillian	908
31	Marion	903
32	Marilyn	861
33	Ann	860
34	Grace	790
35	Phyllis	696
36	Lorraine	691
37	Dolores	687
38	Eileen	661
39	Jane	658
40	Louise	652
41	June	627
42	Anne	626
43	Marjorie	623
44	Norma	604
45	Elaine	594
46	Edith	577
47	Bernice	565
48	Nancy	562
49	Beatrice	551
50	Gertrude	525

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,231
2	Robert	5,471
3	William	4,503
4	Joseph	4,264
5	James	3,291
6	Richard	2,889
7	George	2,635
8	Edward	2,554
9	Charles	2,478
10	Frank	2,158
11	Donald	1,981
11	Thomas	1,981
13	Anthony	1,541
14	Arthur	1,365
15	Raymond	1,233
16	Harold	1,218
17	Walter	1,140
18	Paul	1,108
19	Albert	1,066
20	Michael	1,025
21	Louis	979
22	Stanley	975
23	Henry	949
24	Eugene	938
25	Vincent	871
26	David	869
27	Peter	826
28	Jack	811
29	Bernard	807
30	Kenneth	795
31	Alfred	794
32	Francis	769
33	Daniel	733
34	Leonard	731
35	Herbert	720
36	Howard	698
37	Ralph	689
38	Harry	682
39	Lawrence	632
40	Norman	622
41	Martin	611
42	Gerald	590
43	Philip	583
44	Fred	577
45	Frederick	548
46	Salvatore	547
47	Carl	463
48	Marvin	434
49	Irving	407
50	Nicholas	402