Popular baby names in New York, 1918

The most popular baby names in New York in 1918 were Mary for girls (5,523 babies) and John for boys (6,058). Social Security records list 190,945 babies born in New York in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New York in 1918

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: 72 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Roslyn: 108 babies, 7× the national rate
Yetta: 106 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Carmela: 283 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Concetta: 183 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Bella: 109 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Filomena: 68 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Rosalind: 77 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Angelina: 347 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Tessie: 128 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Boys

Isidore: 144 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Hyman: 212 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Seymour: 321 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Mortimer: 54 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Carmine: 104 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Meyer: 101 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Murray: 255 babies, 6× the national rate
Salvatore: 474 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Sol: 162 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Irving: 715 babies, 5.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New York, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	5,523	–	1
2	Helen	4,091	–	2
3	Dorothy	3,252	–	3
4	Margaret	2,764	↑1	4
5	Ruth	2,720	↓1	5
6	Anna	2,243	–	10
7	Rose	2,196	–	17
8	Frances	1,894	–	8
9	Florence	1,893	–	14
10	Elizabeth	1,646	–	9
11	Marie	1,545	–	12
12	Lillian	1,475	↑1	15
13	Catherine	1,454	↑1	20
14	Mildred	1,438	↑1	6
15	Josephine	1,425	↓3	24
16	Evelyn	1,366	–	11
17	Sylvia	1,227	–	71
18	Eleanor	1,179	–	26
19	Virginia	1,142	↑1	7
20	Marion	1,044	↓1	45
21	Alice	975	–	13
22	Grace	957	↑4	31
23	Jean	950	↑1	37
24	Doris	946	↑3	19
25	Gertrude	911	↓2	39
26	Beatrice	880	↓1	40
27	Anne	840	↓5	54
28	Rita	835	↑2	58
29	Irene	832	–	16
30	Ann	802	↓2	44
31	Edith	792	–	30
32	Betty	753	↑4	21
33	Marjorie	702	↑2	34
34	Louise	673	–	18
35	Ethel	666	↓3	28
36	Jane	660	↑1	53
37	Shirley	622	new	97
38	Edna	600	–	23
39	Julia	600	–	48
40	Esther	594	↓7	38
41	Gladys	579	↑3	22
42	Theresa	573	↓1	>100
43	Katherine	566	–	50
44	Agnes	531	↓4	47
45	Pauline	506	↑2	35
46	Jennie	503	–	91
47	Muriel	498	new	>100
48	Ida	470	↓6	57
49	Pearl	468	new	56
50	Martha	456	↓5	25

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	John	6,058	–	1
2	Joseph	4,319	–	7
3	William	4,040	–	2
4	Robert	3,293	–	4
5	Charles	2,547	–	5
6	Edward	2,543	↑1	8
7	James	2,507	↑1	3
8	George	2,474	↓2	6
9	Frank	2,385	–	9
10	Thomas	1,506	↑1	10
11	Harold	1,427	↑2	13
12	Arthur	1,422	–	17
13	Anthony	1,344	↓3	39
14	Walter	1,306	–	11
15	Louis	1,194	–	24
16	Richard	1,141	↑3	12
17	Henry	1,099	–	16
18	Michael	1,073	↓2	45
19	Harry	1,044	↓1	20
20	Albert	996	–	19
21	Raymond	945	↑1	15
22	Francis	927	↑1	30
23	Donald	879	↑1	18
24	Paul	861	↓3	14
25	Stanley	846	–	36
26	Peter	837	–	53
27	Vincent	796	–	73
28	Bernard	794	–	47
29	Jack	738	↑2	21
30	David	727	↓1	28
31	Irving	715	↓1	>100
32	Alfred	703	–	42
33	Ralph	666	↑3	22
34	Howard	611	↑3	26
35	Herbert	602	↓1	40
36	Philip	591	↑2	71
37	Kenneth	571	↑4	27
38	Leonard	554	↑1	41
39	Samuel	549	↓4	43
40	Frederick	547	↓7	59
41	Daniel	546	↓1	52
42	Milton	533	↑2	76
43	Sidney	526	↓1	94
44	Eugene	515	↑4	35
45	Lawrence	502	–	38
46	Salvatore	474	↑4	>100
47	Victor	457	new	63
48	Morris	440	new	>100
49	Leo	437	–	48
50	Fred	434	↓7	33

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