Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1927

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,653
2	Robert	2,485
3	William	1,747
4	Joseph	1,451
5	Richard	1,324
6	James	1,247
7	Edward	1,153
8	George	1,078
9	Charles	921
10	Donald	853
11	Francis	733
12	Thomas	686
13	Paul	663
14	Arthur	610
15	Raymond	560
16	Frank	512
17	Walter	472
18	Albert	464
19	David	398
20	Henry	386
21	Alfred	372
22	Anthony	336
23	Harold	319
24	Leo	302
25	Kenneth	298

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Ralph	293
27	Norman	286
28	Louis	284
29	Frederick	253
30	Lawrence	245
31	Roger	233
32	Eugene	229
33	Ernest	227
34	Daniel	226
35	Stanley	213
36	Peter	208
37	Leonard	194
38	Philip	189
39	Herbert	186
40	Roland	185
41	Bernard	183
42	Harry	175
43	Michael	173
44	Gerald	167
45	Russell	157
46	Fred	149
47	Vincent	140
48	Howard	139
48	Warren	139
50	Carl	135
51	Ronald	127
52	Edwin	125
53	Theodore	124
54	Earl	113
55	Chester	109
56	Gordon	106
57	Roy	103
58	Edmund	101
59	Stephen	97
60	Manuel	93
60	Maurice	93
60	Samuel	93
63	Melvin	92
64	Leon	88
65	Gerard	84
66	Salvatore	83
67	Andrew	81
67	Arnold	81
69	Irving	80
70	Everett	79
70	Nicholas	79
72	Milton	71
72	Wilfred	71
74	Armand	70
74	Gilbert	70
74	Victor	70
77	Lester	68
78	Clarence	67
78	Normand	67
78	Rene	67
81	Martin	66
82	Angelo	64
83	Clifford	61
84	Alexander	59
84	Jack	59
86	Alan	55
87	Allan	49
88	Allen	48
88	Patrick	48
90	Alvin	47
90	Antone	47
92	Rudolph	45
93	Bruce	43
93	Edgar	43
95	Dominic	41
95	Edmond	41
95	Lewis	41
98	Harvey	40
98	Malcolm	40
98	Wallace	40