Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1926

Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,632
2	Robert	2,366
3	William	1,767
4	Joseph	1,513
5	James	1,217
6	Richard	1,165
7	George	1,131
8	Edward	1,075
9	Charles	905
10	Donald	763
11	Francis	728
12	Paul	672
13	Thomas	644
14	Raymond	611
15	Arthur	603
16	Frank	520
17	Walter	500
18	Albert	493
19	Henry	420
20	Harold	372
21	Anthony	342
21	David	342
23	Alfred	331
24	Kenneth	308
25	Norman	301

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Leo	292
27	Louis	289
28	Ralph	272
29	Ernest	259
30	Frederick	258
31	Daniel	238
32	Peter	230
33	Herbert	227
34	Stanley	220
35	Philip	214
36	Roger	213
37	Lawrence	208
38	Eugene	195
39	Leonard	187
40	Bernard	183
41	Harry	182
41	Roland	182
43	Michael	163
44	Gerald	162
45	Vincent	154
45	Warren	154
47	Russell	152
48	Edwin	146
49	Fred	144
50	Theodore	125
51	Howard	122
52	Chester	116
53	Carl	113
54	Andrew	107
55	Earl	105
55	Gerard	105
57	Edmund	104
58	Gordon	100
58	Wilfred	100
60	Maurice	99
61	Roy	98
62	Manuel	95
63	Stephen	94
64	Ronald	90
65	Nicholas	88
66	Samuel	85
67	Irving	82
68	Melvin	81
69	Clifford	80
70	Everett	78
71	Alan	76
71	Arnold	76
73	Salvatore	74
74	Victor	73
75	Martin	72
76	Gilbert	70
77	Leon	68
77	Normand	68
79	Alexander	65
79	Armand	65
81	Angelo	64
82	Milton	62
83	Douglas	59
84	Allan	58
84	Clarence	58
84	Malcolm	58
87	Jack	56
88	Patrick	54
88	Rene	54
88	Rudolph	54
91	Benjamin	50
91	Lester	50
93	Wallace	48
94	Dominic	45
95	Harvey	44
95	Sidney	44
97	Allen	43
98	Antonio	42
98	Lewis	42
98	Mario	42