Popular baby names in New York, 1914

The most popular baby names in New York in 1914 were Mary for girls (4,245 babies) and John for boys (4,289). Social Security records list 136,839 babies born in New York in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New York in 1914

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: 49 babies, 7× the national rate
Yetta: 95 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Carmela: 196 babies, 6× the national rate
Roslyn: 54 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Concetta: 160 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Bella: 68 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Angelina: 275 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Filomena: 51 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Ray: 42 babies, 4× the national rate
Rae: 73 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Isidore: 128 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Moe: 35 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Seymour: 155 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Mortimer: 47 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Carmelo: 33 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Hyman: 203 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Meyer: 103 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Carmine: 76 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Salvatore: 345 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Murray: 180 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New York, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	4,245	–	1
2	Helen	3,075	–	2
3	Dorothy	2,153	–	3
4	Margaret	2,032	–	4
5	Rose	2,025	–	15
6	Ruth	1,903	↑1	5
7	Anna	1,894	↓1	6
8	Frances	1,338	–	9
9	Florence	1,337	↑1	13
10	Elizabeth	1,238	↓1	8
11	Lillian	1,185	–	16
12	Mildred	1,160	–	7
13	Catherine	1,142	–	18
14	Josephine	1,106	–	23
15	Marie	1,092	–	10
16	Sylvia	914	–	70
17	Evelyn	911	–	11
18	Eleanor	811	↑4	28
19	Alice	810	↓1	12
20	Gertrude	808	–	32
21	Marion	799	–	50
22	Anne	734	↓3	53
23	Ethel	684	↑2	21
24	Grace	647	–	25
25	Jean	629	↑2	54
26	Beatrice	615	↓3	38
27	Ann	611	↑2	40
28	Rita	585	↑12	87
29	Edith	578	↓3	31
30	Irene	552	↓2	22
31	Louise	549	–	17
32	Virginia	496	↑1	14
33	Esther	495	↓1	35
34	Ida	480	–	49
35	Edna	468	↓5	19
36	Doris	455	↑1	36
37	Pauline	435	↑1	34
38	Katherine	432	↑6	48
39	Julia	426	↓4	42
40	Marjorie	418	↑2	45
41	Agnes	417	↓5	44
42	Gladys	415	↓3	20
43	Theresa	408	↓2	93
44	Jennie	403	↑1	77
45	Betty	380	↓2	62
46	Martha	349	–	27
47	Sarah	339	↑3	47
48	Elsie	337	↓1	46
49	Clara	335	–	37
50	Sophie	335	new	100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	John	4,289	–	1
2	Joseph	3,328	–	5
3	William	2,986	–	2
4	Charles	1,854	–	7
5	George	1,839	↑1	6
6	Edward	1,771	↑2	8
7	Frank	1,751	–	9
8	James	1,743	↓3	3
9	Robert	1,723	–	4
10	Louis	1,070	–	20
11	Thomas	1,051	–	11
12	Anthony	1,029	–	37
13	Harold	945	↑1	14
14	Arthur	890	↑1	18
15	Harry	871	↓2	19
16	Walter	831	↑2	10
17	Henry	825	–	12
18	Michael	800	↓2	40
19	Albert	761	–	15
20	Richard	651	↑2	17
21	Paul	650	↑4	13
22	Samuel	614	↑4	36
23	Francis	610	↓3	31
24	Vincent	606	–	61
25	Raymond	605	↑2	16
26	David	588	↓5	29
27	Irving	581	↑2	100
28	Jack	557	↓5	27
29	Peter	554	↓1	48
30	Alfred	537	–	41
31	Bernard	497	–	50
32	Stanley	484	↑4	39
33	Sidney	453	–	89
34	Donald	449	–	23
35	Ralph	440	↑3	21
36	Morris	438	↑1	86
37	Frederick	436	↓2	52
38	Milton	436	↑5	69
39	Philip	419	↓7	68
40	Herbert	381	↑1	42
41	Howard	377	↓1	26
42	Kenneth	376	↑8	30
43	Abraham	349	↑6	>100
44	Salvatore	345	new	>100
45	Daniel	338	↓6	55
46	Leo	336	↑2	47
47	Lawrence	334	↓2	35
48	Carl	331	↓1	24
49	Fred	331	↓7	28
50	Nicholas	328	↓4	>100

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