Popular baby names in New York, 1917

The most popular baby names in New York in 1917 were Mary for girls (5,502 babies) and John for boys (5,759). Social Security records list 182,227 babies born in New York in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New York in 1917

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

Roslyn: 108 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Yetta: 104 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Vincenza: 54 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Carmela: 254 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Ray: 69 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Filomena: 71 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Bella: 104 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Concetta: 160 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Angelina: 363 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Rosalind: 69 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Isidore: 139 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Seymour: 291 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Carmelo: 47 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Carmine: 97 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Hyman: 190 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Salvatore: 430 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Sol: 150 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Rosario: 71 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Meyer: 104 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Irving: 707 babies, 5.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New York, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	5,502	–	1
2	Helen	4,015	–	2
3	Dorothy	2,928	–	3
4	Ruth	2,676	↑1	5
5	Margaret	2,673	↓1	4
6	Anna	2,276	↑1	7
7	Rose	2,254	↓1	16
8	Frances	1,823	–	9
9	Florence	1,697	–	14
10	Elizabeth	1,581	–	8
11	Marie	1,542	↑3	12
12	Josephine	1,500	↓1	21
13	Lillian	1,477	↓1	15
14	Catherine	1,422	↓1	18
15	Mildred	1,378	–	6
16	Evelyn	1,199	–	11
17	Sylvia	1,145	–	69
18	Eleanor	1,114	–	26
19	Marion	994	–	45
20	Virginia	989	↑6	10
21	Alice	982	↓1	13
22	Anne	964	↓1	53
23	Gertrude	956	↓1	37
24	Jean	931	↑1	40
25	Beatrice	915	↓1	39
26	Grace	909	↓3	30
27	Doris	813	↑4	25
28	Ann	812	↑2	44
29	Irene	768	↓2	17
30	Rita	762	↓2	63
31	Edith	715	↓2	28
32	Ethel	715	↑1	24
33	Esther	637	↑1	38
34	Louise	636	↓2	19
35	Marjorie	629	↑1	36
36	Betty	618	↑2	34
37	Jane	613	↑4	55
38	Edna	589	↓3	20
39	Julia	570	↓2	47
40	Agnes	569	↑3	48
41	Theresa	557	↑5	97
42	Ida	549	↓3	56
43	Katherine	539	↓3	49
44	Gladys	519	↑1	23
45	Martha	506	↑5	22
46	Jennie	498	↓2	81
47	Pauline	480	↓5	33
48	Clara	479	new	41
49	Sophie	478	new	100
50	Stella	473	↓2	62

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	John	5,759	–	1
2	Joseph	4,232	–	5
3	William	3,894	–	2
4	Robert	2,820	–	4
5	Charles	2,382	↑1	7
6	George	2,373	↓1	6
7	Edward	2,315	–	8
8	James	2,292	↑1	3
9	Frank	2,248	↓1	9
10	Anthony	1,388	↑1	38
11	Thomas	1,343	↓1	10
12	Arthur	1,236	↑2	17
13	Harold	1,224	–	12
14	Walter	1,161	↑1	11
15	Louis	1,153	↓3	23
16	Michael	1,077	–	44
17	Henry	1,069	–	15
18	Harry	1,038	↑1	19
19	Richard	1,007	↑1	14
20	Albert	933	↓2	18
21	Paul	889	↑1	13
22	Raymond	843	↑1	16
23	Francis	812	↓2	30
24	Donald	791	↑6	20
25	Stanley	781	↑3	34
26	Peter	777	↓2	50
27	Vincent	777	↓2	65
28	Bernard	737	↓2	49
29	David	718	↓2	28
30	Irving	707	↓1	>100
31	Jack	694	↑2	22
32	Alfred	676	–	43
33	Frederick	632	↑3	51
34	Herbert	622	↑3	40
35	Samuel	618	↓4	42
36	Ralph	609	↑2	21
37	Howard	595	↓2	26
38	Philip	570	↓4	66
39	Leonard	544	↑8	41
40	Daniel	540	↑3	54
41	Kenneth	538	↓1	27
42	Sidney	517	↓3	95
43	Fred	488	↑1	29
44	Milton	474	↓3	75
45	Lawrence	470	↑1	36
46	Benjamin	469	new	76
47	Carl	468	↑3	24
48	Eugene	449	new	39
49	Leo	440	↓1	47
50	Salvatore	430	↓8	>100

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