Popular baby names in New York, 1920

The most popular baby names in New York in 1920 were Mary for girls (5,299 babies) and John for boys (5,962). Social Security records list 189,173 babies born in New York in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New York in 1920

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: 145 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Yetta: 88 babies, 8× the national rate
Vincenza: 65 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Carmela: 278 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Bella: 88 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Concetta: 192 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Rosalind: 94 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Filomena: 79 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Yolanda: 121 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Antoinette: 426 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Isidore: 102 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Seymour: 446 babies, 8× the national rate
Carmine: 125 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Murray: 284 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Sol: 131 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Salvatore: 483 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Meyer: 69 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Hyman: 139 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Dominick: 277 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Rosario: 48 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New York, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	5,299	–	1
2	Helen	3,608	–	3
3	Dorothy	3,420	–	2
4	Margaret	2,717	↑1	4
5	Ruth	2,712	↓1	5
6	Anna	2,125	–	10
7	Rose	2,079	–	20
8	Frances	1,774	–	9
9	Florence	1,718	–	16
10	Elizabeth	1,585	–	8
11	Marie	1,583	↑2	13
12	Mildred	1,535	–	6
13	Lillian	1,416	↑1	18
14	Josephine	1,396	↓3	28
15	Catherine	1,378	–	21
16	Eleanor	1,251	↑2	25
17	Evelyn	1,228	↓1	12
18	Virginia	1,194	↓1	7
19	Doris	1,125	↑4	14
20	Alice	1,109	–	15
21	Marion	1,073	–	43
22	Jean	986	–	33
23	Sylvia	965	↓4	85
24	Betty	916	↑5	11
25	Shirley	911	↑7	56
26	Grace	907	↓1	37
27	Irene	875	↓1	17
28	Beatrice	840	↓1	41
29	Rita	833	↓1	52
30	Gertrude	813	↓6	42
31	Anne	773	↓1	65
32	Ann	730	↑1	49
33	Edith	721	↓2	32
34	Marjorie	694	↑1	24
35	Jane	663	↓1	48
36	Louise	639	–	19
37	Ethel	604	–	30
38	Muriel	603	↑7	>100
39	Gladys	572	↑1	22
40	Esther	557	↓2	39
41	Edna	536	↓2	27
42	Agnes	506	↑5	54
43	Katherine	506	↑1	45
44	Julia	496	↓1	55
45	Theresa	495	↓3	>100
46	Barbara	482	new	47
47	Jennie	471	↓6	97
48	Pauline	468	↓2	36
49	Lucille	465	new	29
50	Charlotte	439	↓2	79

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	John	5,962	–	1
2	Joseph	4,284	–	7
3	William	4,236	–	2
4	Robert	3,851	–	3
5	George	2,672	↑2	6
6	Edward	2,518	↓1	8
7	James	2,517	↓1	4
8	Frank	2,422	↑1	9
9	Charles	2,399	↓1	5
10	Thomas	1,602	–	11
11	Harold	1,411	–	12
12	Richard	1,410	↑3	10
13	Anthony	1,367	↓1	43
14	Arthur	1,270	–	18
15	Walter	1,261	↓2	13
16	Donald	1,062	↑7	16
17	Louis	1,051	↓1	28
18	Henry	1,048	↓1	17
19	Raymond	1,022	–	15
20	Harry	1,013	↑1	21
21	Michael	991	↓1	50
22	Albert	972	↓4	19
23	Paul	891	↓1	14
24	Francis	875	–	34
25	Bernard	845	–	46
26	Stanley	792	–	40
27	Vincent	786	↑1	73
28	Alfred	779	↑4	42
29	Jack	779	↑1	20
30	Peter	723	↓1	57
31	David	717	↓4	25
32	Howard	701	↑2	24
33	Irving	688	↓2	>100
34	Herbert	685	↓1	41
35	Ralph	660	–	22
36	Kenneth	623	↑5	23
37	Daniel	597	↑1	52
38	Eugene	596	↑4	30
39	Leonard	582	↓2	38
40	Frederick	568	–	60
41	Philip	558	↓5	71
42	Lawrence	541	↓3	36
43	Milton	511	–	74
44	Martin	508	↑5	78
45	Fred	493	↓1	33
46	Salvatore	483	↑1	>100
47	Norman	464	↑3	47
48	Seymour	446	new	>100
49	Leo	442	new	48
50	Samuel	439	↓4	44

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