Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1933

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,513
2	John	2,087
3	Richard	1,687
4	William	1,355
5	James	1,150
6	Joseph	1,061
7	Donald	956
8	Edward	783
9	Charles	775
10	Paul	754
11	George	734
12	Thomas	654
13	David	513
14	Francis	496
15	Ronald	392
16	Raymond	391
17	Arthur	389
18	Frank	351
19	Walter	297
20	Albert	295
21	Kenneth	283
22	Peter	250
23	Anthony	248
24	Daniel	240
24	Henry	240

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Ralph	233
27	Frederick	223
28	Harold	218
29	Gerald	212
30	Roger	208
31	Norman	201
32	Lawrence	190
33	Alfred	189
34	Philip	186
35	Louis	183
36	Leonard	173
37	Michael	170
38	Leo	167
39	Eugene	161
40	Bernard	153
41	Stanley	145
42	Ernest	143
43	Herbert	125
44	Vincent	115
45	Roland	111
46	Carl	109
47	Harry	107
48	Russell	106
49	Warren	99
50	Theodore	97
51	Fred	96
52	Howard	94
53	Stephen	89
54	Bruce	87
55	Alan	85
56	Edwin	81
57	Gordon	79
58	Leon	69
59	Nicholas	66
60	Earl	65
61	Maurice	64
62	Andrew	61
62	Martin	61
64	Allan	59
65	Gerard	57
65	Roy	57
67	Franklin	56
68	Gilbert	55
68	Wilfred	55
70	Manuel	54
71	Arnold	52
71	Everett	52
73	Douglas	51
73	Patrick	51
73	Salvatore	51
76	Edmund	49
76	Harvey	49
78	Melvin	47
79	Normand	45
79	Samuel	45
79	Victor	45
82	Jack	43
83	Armand	41
83	Wayne	41
85	Chester	40
85	Clifford	40
85	Neil	40
88	Hugh	38
88	Malcolm	38
90	Allen	36
90	Benjamin	36
90	Clarence	36
90	Laurence	36
94	Angelo	35
95	Leslie	34
96	Lewis	33
97	Edgar	32
98	Dennis	31
98	Milton	31
100	Lloyd	30
100	Matthew	30