Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1928

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	4,907
2	Dorothy	2,783
3	Helen	2,315
4	Margaret	2,028
5	Joan	1,703
6	Jean	1,671
7	Shirley	1,653
8	Gloria	1,608
9	Ruth	1,541
10	Rose	1,490
11	Marie	1,466
12	Betty	1,437
13	Patricia	1,433
14	Anna	1,429
15	Barbara	1,365
16	Doris	1,341
17	Florence	1,318
18	Frances	1,315
19	Elizabeth	1,281
20	Theresa	1,156
21	Josephine	1,116
22	Catherine	1,114
23	Eleanor	1,062
24	Dolores	1,060
25	Alice	990
26	Marilyn	984
27	Virginia	979
28	Marion	960
29	Rita	955
30	Ann	929
31	Evelyn	910
32	Mildred	896
33	Lillian	866
34	Irene	865
35	Phyllis	811
36	Lorraine	795
37	Grace	735
38	Elaine	649
39	June	618
40	Jane	610
41	Anne	580
42	Eileen	579
43	Louise	570
43	Nancy	570
45	Norma	567
46	Joyce	552
47	Marjorie	541
48	Beverly	538
49	Edith	521
50	Audrey	520

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,354
2	Robert	5,524
3	William	4,415
4	Joseph	4,172
5	James	3,309
6	Richard	3,072
7	George	2,500
8	Charles	2,478
9	Edward	2,422
10	Donald	2,183
11	Frank	2,137
12	Thomas	1,964
13	Anthony	1,509
14	Arthur	1,339
15	Harold	1,105
16	Raymond	1,097
17	Walter	1,093
18	Paul	1,052
19	Albert	1,050
20	Michael	1,027
21	Alfred	1,008
22	Eugene	1,003
23	Louis	972
24	David	953
25	Herbert	916
26	Stanley	896
27	Henry	867
28	Peter	862
29	Vincent	851
30	Kenneth	825
31	Francis	798
32	Bernard	794
33	Jack	748
34	Leonard	726
35	Daniel	688
36	Howard	672
37	Ralph	666
38	Harry	651
39	Lawrence	635
40	Gerald	633
41	Norman	621
42	Martin	619
43	Philip	589
44	Fred	583
45	Frederick	518
46	Salvatore	512
47	Marvin	460
48	Carl	446
49	Ronald	416
50	Theodore	410