Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1947

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,895
2	John	3,826
3	Richard	2,892
4	James	2,412
5	William	2,386
6	David	2,096
7	Paul	1,853
8	Thomas	1,647
9	Michael	1,550
10	Joseph	1,460
11	Edward	1,140
12	Ronald	1,082
13	Charles	987
14	Stephen	978
15	Peter	946
16	George	901
17	Donald	895
18	Kenneth	768
19	Daniel	613
20	Dennis	598
21	Bruce	569
22	Raymond	497
23	Francis	485
24	Arthur	458
25	Steven	450

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Alan	443
27	Frank	427
28	Wayne	409
29	Lawrence	394
30	Anthony	385
31	Gerald	384
32	Philip	356
33	Walter	352
34	Roger	341
35	Frederick	319
36	Gary	318
37	Kevin	311
38	Mark	290
39	Douglas	289
40	Jeffrey	279
41	Albert	275
41	Brian	275
43	Ralph	266
44	Russell	256
45	Gregory	235
46	Leonard	230
47	Barry	226
48	Henry	225
49	Alfred	210
50	Carl	202
51	Louis	200
52	Norman	190
53	Timothy	185
54	Stanley	184
55	Harold	175
56	Leo	171
57	Ernest	167
58	Andrew	150
59	Martin	149
60	Patrick	147
61	Christopher	137
62	Eugene	135
63	Warren	133
64	Fred	131
65	Vincent	130
66	Bernard	128
67	Glenn	124
67	Harry	124
69	Gerard	122
70	Howard	120
71	Roy	114
72	Allen	110
72	Theodore	110
74	Larry	109
75	Roland	107
76	Nicholas	102
77	Jonathan	96
78	Gordon	91
79	Dana	88
80	Allan	83
81	Phillip	82
82	Eric	80
83	Craig	78
84	Neil	77
85	Herbert	75
86	Scott	73
87	Clifford	70
88	Chester	69
88	Samuel	69
90	Joel	68
91	Edwin	66
92	Jay	64
93	Harvey	59
93	Victor	59
95	Alexander	58
95	Lee	58
97	Arnold	57
98	Earl	56
98	Jack	56
100	Laurence	54