New York ★ 1920

Top names in New York, 1920

Mary led for girls with 5,299 babies ; John for boys with 5,962. State counts omit names with fewer than five babies that year.

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Girls

#	Name	Babies
1	Mary	5,299
2	Helen	3,608
3	Dorothy	3,420
4	Margaret	2,717
5	Ruth	2,712
6	Anna	2,125
7	Rose	2,079
8	Frances	1,774
9	Florence	1,718
10	Elizabeth	1,585
11	Marie	1,583
12	Mildred	1,535
13	Lillian	1,416
14	Josephine	1,396
15	Catherine	1,378
16	Eleanor	1,251
17	Evelyn	1,228
18	Virginia	1,194
19	Doris	1,125
20	Alice	1,109
21	Marion	1,073
22	Jean	986
23	Sylvia	965
24	Betty	916
25	Shirley	911
26	Grace	907
27	Irene	875
28	Beatrice	840
29	Rita	833
30	Gertrude	813
31	Anne	773
32	Ann	730
33	Edith	721
34	Marjorie	694
35	Jane	663
36	Louise	639
37	Ethel	604
38	Muriel	603
39	Gladys	572
40	Esther	557
41	Edna	536
42	Agnes	506
42	Katherine	506
44	Julia	496
45	Theresa	495
46	Barbara	482
47	Jennie	471
48	Pauline	468
49	Lucille	465
50	Charlotte	439
51	Antoinette	426
52	Pearl	415
53	Eileen	410
54	Martha	407
55	Marian	400
56	Clara	399
57	Lucy	397
57	Norma	397
59	Harriet	380
59	Stella	380
59	Thelma	380
62	Ida	366
63	Geraldine	365
64	Elsie	360
65	Genevieve	359
66	Sophie	358
67	Miriam	356
68	Madeline	354
69	Angelina	341
69	June	341
71	Bernice	338
72	Nancy	335
73	Blanche	331
74	Laura	322
74	Sarah	322
76	Janet	313
77	Phyllis	307
78	Joan	305
79	Viola	293
80	Kathleen	287
81	Vivian	283
82	Lena	279
83	Carmela	278
84	Jeanette	275
85	Anita	274
86	Emily	271
87	Loretta	267
88	Bertha	266
89	Emma	259
90	Patricia	255
91	Adele	254
91	Jeanne	254
93	Estelle	252
94	Ellen	249
95	Olga	247
96	Veronica	245
97	Constance	243
98	Hazel	240
99	Marguerite	238
100	Kathryn	236

Boys

#	Name	Babies
1	John	5,962
2	Joseph	4,284
3	William	4,236
4	Robert	3,851
5	George	2,672
6	Edward	2,518
7	James	2,517
8	Frank	2,422
9	Charles	2,399
10	Thomas	1,602
11	Harold	1,411
12	Richard	1,410
13	Anthony	1,367
14	Arthur	1,270
15	Walter	1,261
16	Donald	1,062
17	Louis	1,051
18	Henry	1,048
19	Raymond	1,022
20	Harry	1,013
21	Michael	991
22	Albert	972
23	Paul	891
24	Francis	875
25	Bernard	845
26	Stanley	792
27	Vincent	786
28	Alfred	779
28	Jack	779
30	Peter	723
31	David	717
32	Howard	701
33	Irving	688
34	Herbert	685
35	Ralph	660
36	Kenneth	623
37	Daniel	597
38	Eugene	596
39	Leonard	582
40	Frederick	568
41	Philip	558
42	Lawrence	541
43	Milton	511
44	Martin	508
45	Fred	493
46	Salvatore	483
47	Norman	464
48	Seymour	446
49	Leo	442
50	Samuel	439
51	Theodore	424
52	Carl	419
53	Nicholas	403
54	Sidney	402
55	Edwin	394
56	Andrew	388
57	Morris	358
58	Ernest	338
59	Warren	332
60	Stephen	328
61	Gerald	326
62	Jerome	315
63	Leon	306
64	Benjamin	290
65	Chester	288
66	Murray	284
67	Alexander	280
68	Abraham	279
68	Angelo	279
70	Dominick	277
71	Victor	271
72	Herman	270
73	Sam	265
74	Earl	256
75	Clarence	248
76	Clifford	241
77	Julius	221
78	Melvin	217
79	Max	215
80	Nathan	210
81	Russell	207
82	Arnold	196
83	Gordon	195
84	Roy	192
85	Jacob	188
86	Morton	187
87	Lester	177
88	Matthew	173
89	Patrick	169
90	Douglas	164
91	Marvin	157
92	Alex	155
93	Lewis	154
94	Elmer	153
95	Maurice	151
96	Tony	150
97	Alvin	149
98	Edmund	148
99	Jerry	147
100	Rocco	145