Popular baby names in New York, 1919

The most popular baby names in New York in 1919 were Mary for girls (5,060 babies) and John for boys (5,764). Social Security records list 179,628 babies born in New York in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New York in 1919

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: 121 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Roslyn: 115 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Vincenza: 61 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Carmela: 245 babies, 6× the national rate
Bella: 102 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Filomena: 82 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Concetta: 172 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Angelina: 354 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Rosalind: 68 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Antoinette: 378 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Boys

Isidore: 135 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Seymour: 404 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Hyman: 185 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Carmine: 124 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Murray: 275 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Carmelo: 52 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Sol: 131 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Salvatore: 472 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Mortimer: 49 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Meyer: 88 babies, 6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New York, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	5,060	–	1
2	Helen	3,737	–	2
3	Dorothy	3,087	–	3
4	Ruth	2,664	↑1	5
5	Margaret	2,363	↓1	4
6	Anna	2,037	–	10
7	Rose	2,019	–	19
8	Frances	1,775	–	9
9	Florence	1,671	–	14
10	Elizabeth	1,541	–	8
11	Josephine	1,490	↑4	26
12	Mildred	1,446	↑2	6
13	Marie	1,424	↓2	12
14	Lillian	1,413	↓2	17
15	Catherine	1,322	↓2	23
16	Evelyn	1,279	–	11
17	Virginia	1,139	↑2	7
18	Eleanor	1,134	–	30
19	Sylvia	1,083	↓2	77
20	Alice	1,030	↑1	13
21	Marion	995	↓1	44
22	Jean	977	↑1	37
23	Doris	954	↑1	18
24	Gertrude	937	↑1	39
25	Grace	888	↓3	34
26	Irene	885	↑3	16
27	Beatrice	882	↓1	41
28	Rita	832	–	54
29	Betty	787	↑3	15
30	Anne	759	↓3	63
31	Edith	758	–	29
32	Shirley	728	↑5	89
33	Ann	713	↓3	49
34	Jane	654	↑2	53
35	Marjorie	605	↓2	33
36	Louise	600	↓2	20
37	Ethel	598	↓2	28
38	Esther	596	↑2	38
39	Edna	566	↓1	22
40	Gladys	562	↑1	21
41	Jennie	535	↑5	93
42	Theresa	535	–	>100
43	Julia	522	↓4	48
44	Katherine	504	↓1	51
45	Muriel	496	↑2	>100
46	Pauline	482	↓1	36
47	Agnes	481	↓3	50
48	Charlotte	466	new	79
49	Ida	450	↓1	57
50	Pearl	442	↓1	56

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	John	5,764	–	1
2	Joseph	3,899	–	7
3	William	3,835	–	2
4	Robert	3,275	–	4
5	Edward	2,393	↑1	8
6	James	2,372	↑1	3
7	George	2,351	↑1	6
8	Charles	2,252	↓3	5
9	Frank	2,175	–	9
10	Thomas	1,447	–	10
11	Harold	1,371	–	13
12	Anthony	1,296	↑1	41
13	Walter	1,232	↑1	11
14	Arthur	1,201	↓2	19
15	Richard	1,175	↑1	12
16	Louis	1,087	↓1	28
17	Henry	1,037	–	16
18	Albert	970	↑2	18
19	Raymond	950	↑2	14
20	Michael	939	↓2	46
21	Harry	914	↓2	20
22	Paul	891	↑2	15
23	Donald	845	–	17
24	Francis	829	↓2	34
25	Bernard	820	↑3	45
26	Stanley	781	↓1	37
27	David	722	↑3	27
28	Vincent	720	↓1	72
29	Peter	713	↓3	57
30	Jack	692	↓1	21
31	Irving	691	–	>100
32	Alfred	686	–	42
33	Herbert	614	↑2	40
34	Howard	598	–	24
35	Ralph	571	↓2	22
36	Philip	549	–	71
37	Leonard	545	↑1	39
38	Daniel	541	↑3	51
39	Lawrence	533	↑6	38
40	Frederick	522	–	64
41	Kenneth	506	↓4	26
42	Eugene	500	↑2	33
43	Milton	483	↓1	73
44	Fred	480	↑6	30
45	Theodore	475	new	54
46	Samuel	473	↓7	43
47	Salvatore	472	↓1	>100
48	Sidney	443	↓5	96
49	Martin	429	new	81
50	Norman	420	new	48

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