Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1944

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,954
2	John	2,883
3	Richard	2,271
4	William	1,819
5	James	1,791
6	David	1,458
7	Paul	1,309
8	Joseph	1,104
9	Thomas	1,051
10	Edward	842
11	Michael	837
12	Charles	752
13	Ronald	738
14	George	721
15	Donald	688
16	Peter	679
17	Kenneth	570
18	Stephen	480
19	Francis	445
20	Raymond	438
21	Arthur	394
22	Daniel	360
23	Frank	337
24	Anthony	311
24	Walter	311

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Roger	308
27	Gerald	305
28	Lawrence	296
29	Dennis	295
30	Bruce	288
31	Alan	271
31	Philip	271
33	Frederick	250
34	Albert	243
35	Douglas	210
36	Wayne	207
37	Ralph	200
38	Henry	189
39	Gary	185
40	Alfred	183
41	Harold	176
41	Steven	176
43	Norman	170
44	Carl	165
45	Leonard	163
46	Brian	161
47	Russell	152
48	Barry	148
48	Louis	148
50	Stanley	146
51	Kevin	144
52	Ernest	140
52	Jeffrey	140
54	Leo	122
54	Mark	122
56	Bernard	121
57	Harry	113
58	Eugene	110
58	Vincent	110
60	Howard	106
61	Fred	103
62	Andrew	100
63	Gerard	96
64	Patrick	95
65	Allan	89
65	Theodore	89
65	Warren	89
68	Martin	88
69	Gordon	85
70	Roland	79
71	Herbert	75
71	Neil	75
71	Nicholas	75
74	Roy	74
75	Allen	68
75	Edwin	68
75	Phillip	68
78	Timothy	66
79	Earl	63
80	Joel	61
81	Chester	59
81	Christopher	59
81	Victor	59
84	Samuel	58
85	Clifford	57
86	Laurence	53
87	Edmund	52
88	Maurice	51
89	Jonathan	50
90	Larry	47
91	Glenn	46
91	Lee	46
91	Leslie	46
91	Manuel	46
95	Harvey	45
96	Gilbert	44
97	Jon	42
98	Jack	41
98	Wilfred	41
100	Stuart	40