Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1945

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,891
2	John	2,764
3	Richard	2,271
4	James	1,780
5	William	1,741
6	David	1,387
7	Paul	1,327
8	Thomas	1,061
9	Joseph	1,060
10	Michael	859
11	Edward	805
12	Charles	768
13	George	753
14	Peter	702
14	Ronald	702
16	Donald	632
17	Kenneth	552
18	Stephen	516
19	Raymond	402
20	Francis	401
21	Arthur	386
22	Frank	363
23	Daniel	345
23	Dennis	345
25	Gerald	324

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Walter	307
27	Lawrence	292
28	Philip	291
29	Alan	284
30	Anthony	281
30	Roger	281
32	Bruce	255
33	Frederick	251
34	Gary	238
35	Albert	223
36	Douglas	216
37	Wayne	209
38	Ralph	204
39	Steven	192
40	Henry	175
41	Norman	166
42	Brian	165
43	Alfred	163
44	Jeffrey	158
45	Leonard	156
46	Russell	154
47	Leo	149
48	Stanley	148
49	Kevin	145
50	Barry	143
50	Mark	143
52	Carl	140
53	Harold	133
54	Ernest	132
55	Louis	115
56	Andrew	104
56	Eugene	104
56	Martin	104
56	Vincent	104
60	Howard	103
61	Bernard	95
62	Harry	92
63	Gerard	91
64	Timothy	90
65	Fred	89
66	Theodore	85
67	Warren	83
68	Allan	82
69	Roland	78
70	Herbert	77
71	Victor	74
72	Gordon	73
73	Allen	72
73	Roy	72
75	Larry	71
76	Patrick	69
77	Gregory	65
78	Christopher	62
78	Samuel	62
80	Clifford	61
81	Laurence	58
82	Eric	55
83	Manuel	54
84	Nicholas	53
85	Craig	51
86	Jack	50
86	Joel	50
88	Edmund	49
88	Jon	49
88	Jonathan	49
88	Lee	49
92	Phillip	48
93	Earl	45
94	Chester	44
95	Edwin	43
95	Glenn	43
95	Neil	43
98	Alexander	42
99	Leslie	39
99	Rodney	39