Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1940

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,640
2	John	2,386
3	Richard	1,980
4	William	1,614
5	James	1,314
6	David	1,162
7	Paul	1,009
8	Joseph	987
9	Thomas	826
10	Edward	776
11	Charles	719
12	George	704
13	Donald	637
13	Ronald	637
15	Peter	502
16	Michael	475
17	Kenneth	413
18	Francis	392
19	Raymond	368
20	Arthur	361
21	Frank	321
22	Gerald	319
23	Walter	291
24	Roger	277
25	Stephen	274

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Anthony	264
27	Daniel	261
28	Albert	233
29	Philip	224
30	Henry	212
31	Frederick	208
32	Lawrence	207
33	Bruce	199
34	Ralph	184
35	Alfred	180
36	Norman	178
37	Carl	169
38	Alan	156
39	Leonard	154
40	Dennis	149
41	Ernest	142
42	Louis	133
43	Leo	127
44	Stanley	126
45	Eugene	121
46	Russell	120
47	Harold	119
48	Bernard	110
49	Wayne	102
50	Fred	99
50	Vincent	99
52	Barry	97
53	Theodore	92
54	Martin	90
55	Howard	89
56	Douglas	83
56	Harry	83
58	Herbert	82
58	Roland	82
60	Allan	81
61	Nicholas	79
62	Warren	77
63	Gerard	75
64	Kevin	73
65	Gordon	71
66	Roy	68
67	Andrew	65
67	Brian	65
69	Allen	61
70	Steven	58
71	Edwin	57
71	Patrick	57
73	Leon	56
74	Timothy	55
75	Harvey	53
75	Maurice	53
77	Mark	52
77	Neil	52
79	Joel	50
79	Samuel	50
81	Victor	48
82	Gary	47
83	Edmund	44
84	Arnold	43
84	Chester	43
84	Earl	43
87	Manuel	42
88	Clifford	41
89	Jack	38
89	Larry	38
91	Laurence	37
91	Phillip	37
91	Wilfred	37
94	Jeffrey	36
94	Normand	36
94	Stuart	36
97	Armand	35
97	Christopher	35
97	Lee	35
100	Gilbert	34
100	Salvatore	34