Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1930

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,693
2	John	2,445
3	William	1,656
4	Richard	1,627
5	Joseph	1,280
6	James	1,204
7	Edward	1,010
8	Donald	950
9	George	917
10	Charles	841
11	Paul	781
12	Thomas	613
13	Francis	591
14	Arthur	544
15	David	497
16	Raymond	493
17	Frank	396
18	Albert	395
19	Walter	386
20	Henry	316
21	Anthony	297
22	Kenneth	295
23	Norman	275
24	Harold	269
25	Alfred	256

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Frederick	244
27	Leo	242
28	Louis	238
29	Ralph	236
30	Daniel	231
31	Roger	228
32	Lawrence	219
33	Ernest	215
34	Philip	213
35	Gerald	209
36	Eugene	204
37	Peter	201
38	Stanley	186
39	Herbert	178
40	Ronald	173
41	Michael	172
42	Bernard	160
43	Roland	155
44	Leonard	146
45	Russell	140
46	Vincent	137
47	Fred	135
48	Carl	133
49	Theodore	126
50	Harry	124
51	Howard	117
52	Warren	105
53	Gordon	103
54	Edwin	100
55	Maurice	92
56	Alan	89
57	Roy	87
58	Gilbert	84
59	Earl	82
59	Stephen	82
61	Andrew	81
61	Edmund	81
63	Arnold	78
63	Martin	78
63	Nicholas	78
66	Salvatore	73
67	Manuel	72
68	Wilfred	67
69	Allan	66
70	Normand	65
71	Leon	64
72	Bruce	63
72	Douglas	63
74	Gerard	61
75	Armand	59
76	Clarence	56
76	Hugh	56
78	Clifford	55
79	Melvin	52
80	Allen	51
80	Harvey	51
80	Patrick	51
83	Chester	50
83	Everett	50
85	Samuel	49
86	Irving	47
87	Victor	46
88	Angelo	44
88	Milton	44
90	Lester	43
91	Edgar	41
92	Alvin	40
92	Jack	40
92	Lewis	40
95	Benjamin	39
96	Laurence	38
97	Alexander	37
98	Rene	36
98	Wallace	36
100	Herman	35
100	Malcolm	35