Popular baby names in New York, 1915

The most popular baby names in New York in 1915 were Mary for girls (5,342 babies) and John for boys (5,180). Social Security records list 169,885 babies born in New York in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New York in 1915

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

Yetta: 114 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Roslyn: 70 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Vincenza: 50 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Carmela: 229 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Bella: 77 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Filomena: 64 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Concetta: 150 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Ray: 52 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Rosalind: 63 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Angelina: 324 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Boys

Isidore: 150 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Hyman: 238 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Seymour: 190 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Carmine: 107 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Mortimer: 43 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Meyer: 113 babies, 6× the national rate
Vito: 107 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Pasquale: 133 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Salvatore: 397 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Abraham: 393 babies, 5.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New York, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	5,342	–	1
2	Helen	3,957	–	2
3	Dorothy	2,725	–	3
4	Margaret	2,584	–	4
5	Ruth	2,489	↑1	5
6	Rose	2,355	↓1	16
7	Anna	2,320	–	7
8	Frances	1,665	–	9
9	Florence	1,571	–	14
10	Lillian	1,546	↑1	15
11	Elizabeth	1,518	↓1	8
12	Mildred	1,438	–	6
13	Marie	1,413	↑2	11
14	Catherine	1,407	↓1	19
15	Josephine	1,384	↓1	22
16	Evelyn	1,147	↑1	10
17	Sylvia	1,109	↓1	67
18	Eleanor	1,048	–	28
19	Alice	1,005	–	13
20	Gertrude	949	–	35
21	Marion	937	–	50
22	Grace	911	↑2	27
23	Anne	871	↓1	52
24	Jean	809	↑1	48
25	Irene	772	↑5	17
26	Rita	742	↑2	71
27	Beatrice	740	↓1	37
28	Doris	726	↑8	34
29	Edith	695	–	31
30	Ann	688	↓3	43
31	Louise	684	–	18
32	Virginia	683	–	12
33	Ethel	667	↓10	23
34	Edna	632	↑1	20
35	Esther	578	↓2	33
36	Julia	567	↑3	44
37	Pauline	556	–	32
38	Marjorie	554	↑2	39
39	Theresa	543	↑4	93
40	Jennie	540	↑4	73
41	Ida	523	↓7	54
42	Agnes	507	↓1	45
43	Katherine	505	↓5	49
44	Betty	480	↑1	53
45	Gladys	467	↓3	21
46	Elsie	445	↑2	41
47	Stella	440	new	64
48	Sophie	439	↑2	97
49	Jane	434	new	69
50	Bertha	431	new	46

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	5,180	–	1
2	Joseph	3,764	–	5
3	William	3,666	–	2
4	Charles	2,315	–	7
5	Robert	2,242	↑4	4
6	Frank	2,215	↑1	9
7	James	2,215	↑1	3
8	Edward	2,186	↓2	8
9	George	2,178	↓4	6
10	Anthony	1,297	↑2	36
11	Thomas	1,289	–	10
12	Harold	1,201	↑1	12
13	Louis	1,188	↓3	23
14	Arthur	1,086	–	18
15	Walter	1,046	↑1	11
16	Harry	1,017	↓1	19
17	Michael	1,016	↑1	43
18	Henry	974	↓1	14
19	Richard	872	↑1	15
20	Albert	868	↓1	17
21	Paul	850	–	13
22	Francis	787	↑1	29
23	Vincent	716	↑1	65
24	Raymond	710	↑1	16
25	David	687	↑1	31
26	Peter	685	↑3	49
27	Irving	667	–	>100
28	Stanley	662	↑4	34
29	Bernard	659	↑2	48
30	Jack	652	↓2	27
31	Samuel	635	↓9	39
32	Donald	629	↑2	20
33	Alfred	611	↓3	42
34	Ralph	549	↑1	21
35	Philip	536	↑4	69
36	Frederick	531	↑1	52
37	Herbert	528	↑3	40
38	Sidney	526	↓5	94
39	Howard	520	↑2	25
40	Daniel	503	↑5	55
41	Milton	486	↓3	73
42	Kenneth	467	–	28
43	Morris	463	↓7	93
44	Fred	460	↑5	26
45	Leonard	437	new	44
46	Lawrence	432	↑1	37
47	Nicholas	415	↑3	>100
48	Carl	411	–	22
49	Salvatore	397	↓5	>100
50	Leo	396	↓4	47

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