Popular baby names in New York, 1922

The most popular baby names in New York in 1922 were Mary for girls (5,305 babies) and John for boys (6,105). Social Security records list 191,728 babies born in New York in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New York in 1922

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: 161 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Yetta: 81 babies, 7× the national rate
Vincenza: 69 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Carmela: 301 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Bella: 91 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Concetta: 227 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Renee: 53 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Filomena: 78 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Rosalind: 99 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Angelina: 368 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Isidore: 103 babies, 9.4× the national rate
Seymour: 515 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Carmine: 146 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Hyman: 150 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Murray: 368 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Sol: 131 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Carmelo: 51 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Dominick: 273 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Meyer: 69 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Salvatore: 492 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New York, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	5,305	–	1
2	Helen	3,380	–	3
3	Dorothy	3,261	–	2
4	Margaret	2,539	–	4
5	Ruth	2,384	–	5
6	Rose	1,954	–	23
7	Anna	1,773	–	12
8	Florence	1,712	↑1	18
9	Frances	1,691	↓1	10
10	Marie	1,566	–	14
11	Elizabeth	1,453	–	9
12	Josephine	1,403	–	27
13	Catherine	1,355	–	24
14	Mildred	1,320	–	8
15	Virginia	1,239	–	7
16	Evelyn	1,238	↑2	13
17	Doris	1,234	↓1	11
18	Lillian	1,209	↓1	19
19	Shirley	1,198	↑4	39
20	Betty	1,148	↑5	6
21	Jean	1,132	–	20
22	Eleanor	1,096	↓3	28
23	Alice	1,094	↓1	15
24	Marion	1,058	↓4	42
25	Irene	987	↓1	17
26	Gloria	939	↑12	61
27	Rita	842	↑3	52
28	Beatrice	832	↓1	43
29	Grace	818	↓1	38
30	Sylvia	816	↓4	94
31	Ann	807	↑3	49
32	Edith	728	–	34
33	Marjorie	727	↓4	16
34	Anne	721	↓1	66
35	Gertrude	719	↓4	48
36	Jane	716	↓1	55
37	Muriel	685	–	>100
38	Louise	645	↓2	22
39	Ethel	589	–	32
40	Barbara	586	↑1	40
41	Theresa	569	↓1	>100
42	Esther	547	↑1	44
43	Gladys	517	↓1	25
44	Eileen	512	↑5	96
45	Norma	491	↑1	46
46	Edna	484	↓2	29
47	Julia	479	new	60
48	Jennie	473	↓1	>100
49	Agnes	465	↑1	62
50	Charlotte	460	↓2	76

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	John	6,105	–	1
2	Robert	4,488	↑1	2
3	Joseph	4,248	↑1	7
4	William	4,247	↓2	3
5	James	2,749	–	4
6	George	2,601	–	6
7	Edward	2,542	–	8
8	Frank	2,383	↑1	10
9	Charles	2,343	↓1	5
10	Richard	1,754	–	9
11	Thomas	1,702	–	11
12	Anthony	1,421	–	39
13	Arthur	1,395	↑1	19
14	Harold	1,385	↓1	13
15	Donald	1,295	↑1	12
16	Walter	1,236	↓1	15
17	Louis	1,068	↑2	27
18	Michael	1,039	↑2	48
19	Raymond	1,031	↓2	16
20	Henry	1,020	↓2	17
21	Albert	1,003	–	20
22	Paul	933	–	14
23	Stanley	919	↑2	41
24	Harry	879	↓1	22
25	Vincent	852	↑1	71
26	Francis	837	↑1	34
27	Bernard	820	↓3	46
28	Jack	809	↑1	18
29	David	800	↑1	24
30	Peter	790	↓2	57
31	Howard	733	↑2	26
32	Herbert	713	↓1	40
33	Alfred	695	↓1	42
34	Kenneth	691	↑4	21
35	Leonard	670	–	38
36	Eugene	657	↑1	25
37	Irving	639	↓1	>100
38	Ralph	639	↓4	23
39	Daniel	628	↑3	47
40	Lawrence	613	–	36
41	Philip	605	–	70
42	Martin	549	↑5	80
43	Norman	533	↑2	44
44	Frederick	525	↓5	60
45	Seymour	515	↑3	>100
46	Fred	493	↓2	33
47	Salvatore	492	↑2	>100
48	Theodore	448	new	62
49	Samuel	436	↓3	43
50	Nicholas	424	–	>100

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