Popular baby names in New York, 1938

The most popular baby names in New York in 1938 were Barbara for girls (4,215 babies) and Robert for boys (6,477). Barbara ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 173,810 babies born in New York in 1938 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New York in 1938

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

Carmela: 110 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Concetta: 65 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Roslyn: 64 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Francine: 111 babies, 5× the national rate
Toby: 57 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Angela: 220 babies, 4× the national rate
Helene: 133 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Camille: 94 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Rosemarie: 340 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Antoinette: 219 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 88 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Seymour: 70 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Dominick: 134 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Salvatore: 273 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Irwin: 116 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Rocco: 67 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Pasquale: 49 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Vito: 47 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Angelo: 152 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Morton: 81 babies, 5.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New York, 1938

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Barbara	4,215	↑1	2
2	Mary	3,623	↓1	1
3	Patricia	3,219	–	3
4	Joan	2,505	–	10
5	Carol	2,218	–	6
6	Margaret	1,628	–	9
7	Nancy	1,377	↑1	7
8	Dorothy	1,192	↓1	8
9	Elizabeth	1,158	↑2	17
10	Judith	1,142	↑11	12
11	Ann	1,107	↓1	32
12	Marilyn	1,026	–	19
13	Marie	1,024	↑1	37
14	Sandra	993	↑3	14
15	Shirley	955	↓6	5
16	Helen	936	↓3	13
17	Joyce	922	↑1	11
18	Frances	892	↓2	23
19	Jean	855	↓4	27
20	Phyllis	780	–	28
21	Janet	747	↓2	16
22	Elaine	732	↑6	42
23	Catherine	721	↑3	48
24	Beverly	715	↓2	18
25	Betty	714	–	4
26	Dolores	700	↓3	43
27	Ruth	691	–	21
28	Virginia	682	↑1	22
29	Rose	654	↓5	39
30	Arlene	641	↑5	63
31	Theresa	634	↑1	92
32	Kathleen	633	↑9	58
33	Carole	629	↑1	46
34	Susan	619	new	71
35	Gloria	609	↓2	36
36	Eleanor	594	↓6	60
37	Anne	592	↑3	84
38	Alice	586	↓1	29
39	Linda	579	new	31
40	Gail	556	new	77
41	Eileen	538	↓5	>100
42	Rosalie	519	new	66
43	Carolyn	512	↑6	15
44	Anna	503	↓13	40
45	Josephine	503	↓2	83
46	Sheila	495	↓1	>100
47	Lorraine	493	↓5	93
48	Jane	487	↓10	44
49	Diane	481	↑1	64
50	Doris	475	↓11	25

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Robert	6,477	–	1
2	John	5,630	–	3
3	Richard	4,013	–	5
4	William	3,737	–	4
5	James	3,608	–	2
6	Joseph	3,034	–	12
7	Thomas	2,393	–	9
8	Charles	2,062	↑2	6
9	Edward	2,019	–	13
10	David	1,936	↑2	8
11	Donald	1,909	↓3	7
12	Michael	1,850	↑1	21
13	George	1,769	↓2	11
14	Ronald	1,618	–	10
15	Frank	1,479	–	18
16	Paul	1,339	↑1	15
17	Anthony	1,322	↓1	46
18	Peter	1,229	–	48
19	Kenneth	965	–	14
20	Arthur	874	–	32
21	Raymond	859	–	20
22	Gerald	811	–	19
23	Walter	713	–	26
24	Daniel	692	–	39
25	Lawrence	667	↑1	36
26	Stephen	658	↑9	74
27	Martin	639	↑1	87
28	Louis	638	↓1	47
29	Vincent	627	–	>100
30	Harold	621	↓5	23
31	Henry	598	↑2	30
32	Francis	571	↑5	51
33	Albert	568	↓3	37
34	Howard	546	↓2	42
35	Roger	540	↑10	31
36	Philip	531	↑2	64
37	Eugene	530	↓1	33
38	Stanley	518	↓4	59
39	Carl	503	↑1	29
40	Frederick	485	↑3	71
41	Fred	479	↓10	38
42	Alan	457	↑4	91
43	Norman	452	↑5	43
44	Ralph	449	↓5	35
45	Jack	447	↓4	25
46	Leonard	440	↓4	57
47	Gary	417	new	22
48	Bruce	395	new	66
49	Bernard	388	↓5	75
50	Herbert	372	↓1	68

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