Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1946

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,662
2	John	3,386
3	Richard	3,166
4	William	2,237
5	James	2,206
6	Paul	1,729
7	David	1,726
8	Thomas	1,345
9	Joseph	1,312
10	Michael	1,251
11	Edward	1,001
12	Ronald	983
13	Charles	907
14	Peter	863
15	Donald	828
16	George	785
17	Stephen	768
18	Kenneth	750
19	Dennis	551
20	Daniel	507
21	Francis	468
22	Raymond	467
23	Bruce	459
24	Arthur	442
25	Lawrence	398

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Frank	386
27	Gerald	366
28	Alan	365
29	Philip	341
30	Roger	337
31	Walter	335
32	Anthony	329
33	Frederick	305
34	Gary	288
35	Wayne	286
36	Steven	263
37	Douglas	252
38	Kevin	242
39	Albert	241
40	Russell	224
41	Henry	218
42	Ralph	217
43	Jeffrey	209
43	Mark	209
45	Brian	207
46	Leonard	201
47	Alfred	189
48	Carl	188
49	Barry	187
50	Norman	173
51	Harold	172
52	Louis	170
53	Gregory	162
54	Stanley	156
55	Leo	152
56	Eugene	150
57	Andrew	142
58	Vincent	139
59	Ernest	137
60	Howard	132
61	Timothy	128
62	Gerard	127
63	Harry	119
63	Martin	119
65	Bernard	110
66	Fred	109
67	Roy	106
68	Christopher	103
69	Patrick	100
70	Warren	98
71	Roland	91
72	Allen	86
73	Allan	84
74	Herbert	83
74	Larry	83
76	Gordon	79
77	Craig	77
78	Edwin	75
78	Jonathan	75
80	Dana	74
81	Edmund	73
82	Clifford	72
82	Eric	72
82	Theodore	72
85	Samuel	69
86	Phillip	68
87	Earl	67
88	Chester	66
89	Nicholas	64
90	Laurence	63
90	Neil	63
90	Victor	63
93	Jon	60
93	Lee	60
95	Glenn	58
95	Jack	58
97	Maurice	52
98	Jay	51
98	Joel	51
98	Rodney	51