Popular baby names in New York, 1924

The most popular baby names in New York in 1924 were Mary for girls (5,144 babies) and John for boys (6,318). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 197,566 babies born in New York in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New York in 1924

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: 69 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Roslyn: 159 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Vincenza: 68 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Carmela: 301 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Renee: 91 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Bella: 61 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Concetta: 205 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Filomena: 81 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Rosalind: 97 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Antoinette: 491 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Boys

Seymour: 541 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Isidore: 65 babies, 8× the national rate
Carmine: 133 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Hyman: 99 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Sol: 111 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Domenick: 54 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Murray: 326 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Meyer: 54 babies, 6× the national rate
Salvatore: 508 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Dominick: 278 babies, 5.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New York, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	5,144	–	1
2	Dorothy	3,421	–	2
3	Helen	3,088	–	3
4	Margaret	2,457	–	5
5	Ruth	2,174	–	6
6	Rose	1,786	–	25
7	Anna	1,685	–	13
8	Florence	1,611	↑1	20
9	Frances	1,605	↓1	10
10	Marie	1,574	↑1	14
11	Gloria	1,546	↑8	41
12	Elizabeth	1,523	↓2	11
13	Shirley	1,499	–	19
14	Betty	1,439	–	4
15	Jean	1,412	↑7	16
16	Doris	1,324	–	9
17	Josephine	1,271	↓5	34
18	Mildred	1,254	↓1	8
19	Catherine	1,253	↓4	27
20	Virginia	1,233	↑1	7
21	Eleanor	1,223	↓1	29
22	Lillian	1,190	↓4	23
23	Evelyn	1,175	–	12
24	Alice	1,139	↑2	15
25	Marion	1,090	↓1	46
26	Irene	1,012	↓1	18
27	Rita	910	↑1	49
28	Ann	843	↓1	55
29	Grace	797	–	43
30	Jane	769	↑4	53
31	Marjorie	768	↑7	17
32	Beatrice	729	↓2	50
33	Barbara	723	↑3	28
34	Anne	703	↓3	79
35	Gertrude	692	↓2	60
36	Edith	683	↓1	36
37	Patricia	677	↑10	35
38	Sylvia	673	↓6	>100
39	Louise	648	–	24
40	Muriel	631	↓3	>100
41	Theresa	616	↓1	96
42	Joan	563	new	95
43	Phyllis	550	new	44
44	Eileen	545	↓2	93
45	June	528	↓1	45
46	Norma	523	↓3	40
47	Ethel	515	↓6	39
48	Elaine	505	new	73
49	Antoinette	491	new	>100
50	Bernice	490	new	47

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	John	6,318	–	2
2	Robert	5,038	–	1
3	William	4,447	–	3
4	Joseph	4,220	–	7
5	James	2,864	–	4
6	Edward	2,752	–	9
7	George	2,613	–	6
8	Charles	2,434	–	5
9	Frank	2,336	–	12
10	Richard	2,059	–	8
11	Thomas	1,848	–	11
12	Donald	1,525	↑1	10
13	Anthony	1,497	↓1	39
14	Harold	1,411	–	13
15	Arthur	1,358	–	20
16	Walter	1,247	–	16
17	Raymond	1,148	–	15
18	Albert	1,037	–	21
19	Louis	1,024	–	28
20	Paul	969	↑2	14
21	Henry	966	–	18
22	Michael	924	↓2	54
23	Stanley	916	–	40
24	Harry	887	–	22
25	Vincent	871	↑2	78
26	David	855	↑2	24
27	Bernard	845	↓2	46
28	Francis	809	↓2	34
29	Alfred	803	↑2	43
30	Peter	774	–	59
31	Herbert	754	↑1	41
32	Jack	752	↓3	17
33	Eugene	745	–	25
34	Leonard	716	↑6	38
35	Kenneth	703	–	19
36	Ralph	686	↓2	23
37	Howard	681	↓1	26
38	Daniel	631	↑1	47
39	Philip	613	↑2	71
40	Lawrence	588	↓3	36
41	Fred	579	↑1	32
42	Irving	576	↓4	>100
43	Norman	551	↑1	42
44	Seymour	541	↑3	>100
45	Martin	533	↓2	82
46	Frederick	532	–	62
47	Salvatore	508	↓2	>100
48	Gerald	466	new	49
49	Nicholas	460	↑1	>100
50	Carl	431	new	27

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