Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New York, 1929

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	4,762
2	Dorothy	2,577
3	Joan	2,459
4	Helen	2,144
5	Margaret	2,113
6	Marie	1,610
7	Jean	1,593
8	Shirley	1,540
9	Patricia	1,500
10	Ruth	1,482
11	Rose	1,475
12	Gloria	1,449
13	Barbara	1,411
14	Doris	1,360
15	Dolores	1,334
16	Anna	1,333
17	Betty	1,324
18	Elizabeth	1,242
19	Frances	1,235
20	Florence	1,130
21	Theresa	1,080
22	Josephine	1,075
23	Catherine	1,019
24	Marilyn	1,005
25	Virginia	976
26	Eleanor	964
27	Alice	923
28	Rita	900
29	Ann	890
30	Evelyn	862
31	Marion	825
32	Irene	819
32	Phyllis	819
34	Lillian	782
35	Mildred	729
36	Joyce	703
37	Nancy	690
38	Lorraine	685
39	Jane	676
40	Grace	649
41	Eileen	646
42	Elaine	610
43	Beverly	607
44	Louise	605
45	Anne	592
46	Marjorie	572
47	June	546
48	Norma	545
49	Lois	542
50	Carol	517

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	6,253
2	Robert	5,446
3	William	4,235
4	Joseph	3,903
5	James	3,218
6	Richard	3,167
7	George	2,503
8	Edward	2,297
9	Charles	2,277
10	Donald	2,263
11	Frank	2,023
12	Thomas	1,928
13	Anthony	1,493
14	Arthur	1,261
15	Raymond	1,136
16	Paul	1,075
17	Walter	1,060
18	Harold	1,052
19	David	1,050
20	Louis	976
21	Michael	948
22	Herbert	930
23	Peter	913
24	Albert	904
25	Stanley	880
26	Eugene	849
27	Vincent	818
28	Francis	798
29	Kenneth	794
30	Henry	792
31	Bernard	740
32	Jack	735
33	Alfred	710
34	Leonard	698
35	Gerald	689
36	Ralph	684
37	Daniel	681
38	Harry	657
39	Howard	619
40	Norman	617
41	Lawrence	613
42	Martin	590
43	Fred	586
44	Philip	553
45	Frederick	509
46	Carl	501
47	Salvatore	497
48	Marvin	431
48	Ronald	431
50	Nicholas	390