Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1942

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,173
2	John	3,019
3	Richard	2,389
4	William	1,987
5	James	1,855
6	David	1,436
7	Joseph	1,258
8	Paul	1,210
9	Thomas	1,098
10	Edward	993
11	Charles	865
12	Ronald	812
13	George	799
14	Michael	740
15	Donald	706
16	Peter	693
17	Kenneth	612
18	Francis	527
19	Stephen	493
20	Raymond	469
21	Arthur	452
22	Daniel	402
23	Frank	396
24	Gerald	363
25	Walter	351

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Anthony	336
27	Roger	335
28	Philip	331
29	Lawrence	317
30	Dennis	306
31	Albert	302
32	Douglas	272
33	Frederick	266
34	Bruce	259
35	Henry	248
36	Ralph	229
37	Alfred	205
38	Louis	197
39	Alan	195
40	Norman	186
41	Leonard	183
42	Harold	175
43	Wayne	166
44	Carl	160
44	Stanley	160
46	Russell	146
47	Bernard	144
48	Barry	143
48	Ernest	143
50	Leo	141
51	Eugene	139
52	Vincent	134
53	Gerard	132
54	Howard	127
55	Gary	125
56	Brian	123
57	Steven	117
58	Andrew	114
59	Kevin	111
60	Jeffrey	110
60	Theodore	110
62	Fred	108
62	Martin	108
62	Roland	108
65	Herbert	100
66	Patrick	97
67	Harry	96
68	Warren	91
69	Gordon	90
70	Roy	88
71	Allan	86
72	Mark	85
72	Victor	85
74	Samuel	78
75	Allen	76
76	Timothy	71
77	Chester	64
78	Jack	61
78	Nicholas	61
80	Edwin	60
80	Larry	60
82	Clifford	57
83	Lee	56
84	Arnold	55
84	Harvey	55
86	Christopher	54
86	Edmund	54
86	Laurence	54
89	Earl	53
89	Phillip	53
91	Neil	51
92	Everett	50
93	Benjamin	47
94	Joel	45
94	Leon	45
96	Bradford	44
96	Jon	44
98	Maurice	43
99	Jonathan	42
99	Lewis	42