Popular baby names in New York, 1910

The most popular baby names in New York in 1910 were Mary for girls (1,923 babies) and John for boys (1,125). Social Security records list 48,148 babies born in New York in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New York in 1910

Names given at least 15 times in New York that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Vincenza: 18 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Yetta: 46 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Bella: 41 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Carmela: 78 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Concetta: 48 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Rae: 40 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Angelina: 111 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Filomena: 30 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Ray: 21 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Antoinette: 114 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Isidore: 34 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Vito: 15 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Carmine: 16 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Hyman: 37 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Salvatore: 74 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Meyer: 30 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Pasquale: 25 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Irving: 144 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Murray: 46 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Sol: 37 babies, 6.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New York, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	1,923	1
2	Helen	1,290	2
3	Rose	990	16
4	Anna	951	6
5	Margaret	926	3
6	Dorothy	897	4
7	Ruth	713	5
8	Lillian	648	14
9	Florence	604	12
10	Frances	589	11
11	Elizabeth	579	7
12	Mildred	562	8
13	Catherine	521	22
14	Marie	503	9
15	Josephine	431	30
16	Alice	410	10
17	Marion	387	59
18	Gertrude	380	26
19	Evelyn	366	17
20	Grace	348	23
21	Anne	340	67
22	Ann	318	52
23	Ethel	296	13
24	Beatrice	292	36
25	Louise	279	20
26	Edna	277	18
27	Sylvia	273	92
28	Irene	272	21
29	Eleanor	260	55
30	Jean	250	77
31	Julia	245	49
32	Esther	233	38
33	Agnes	231	41
34	Gladys	230	15
35	Theresa	225	96
36	Edith	219	35
37	Betty	210	69
38	Bertha	203	33
39	Marjorie	200	68
40	Pauline	200	42
41	Katherine	191	57
42	Ida	190	47
43	Virginia	181	29
44	Elsie	178	44
45	Jennie	178	81
46	Sarah	177	40
47	Clara	174	32
48	Martha	167	28
49	Doris	164	64
50	Sophie	142	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	John	1,125	1
2	Joseph	917	6
3	William	768	3
4	James	592	2
5	Charles	528	7
6	Frank	512	8
7	Edward	500	9
8	George	484	5
9	Thomas	335	12
10	Robert	332	4
11	Louis	290	24
12	Anthony	264	37
13	Harry	260	16
14	Albert	217	14
15	Michael	216	45
16	Arthur	215	17
17	Henry	214	10
18	Jack	212	23
19	Harold	210	18
20	Walter	192	13
21	Samuel	167	32
22	Paul	148	15
23	Irving	144	>100
24	David	141	30
25	Richard	140	21
26	Peter	132	56
27	Alfred	130	38
28	Francis	123	36
29	Bernard	122	62
30	Raymond	122	19
31	Philip	117	83
32	Morris	110	91
33	Frederick	109	69
34	Howard	108	27
35	Vincent	108	99
36	Fred	106	22
37	Ralph	106	28
38	Stanley	104	47
39	Daniel	100	53
40	Max	98	>100
41	Sidney	95	93
42	Benjamin	92	70
43	Carl	92	26
44	Abraham	87	>100
45	Lawrence	85	35
46	Herbert	83	41
47	Leo	80	51
48	Andrew	79	42
49	Ernest	79	31
50	Milton	79	76

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