Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1948

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,549
2	John	3,407
3	Richard	2,465
4	James	2,310
5	William	2,251
6	David	2,012
7	Paul	1,771
8	Michael	1,666
9	Thomas	1,539
10	Joseph	1,347
11	Stephen	1,072
12	Edward	1,041
13	Charles	878
14	Peter	855
15	Ronald	850
16	George	801
17	Donald	789
18	Kenneth	726
19	Daniel	624
20	Bruce	554
21	Dennis	507
22	Francis	480
23	Steven	448
24	Mark	442
24	Raymond	442

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Philip	414
27	Arthur	406
28	Gary	402
29	Alan	401
30	Kevin	389
31	Frank	384
32	Lawrence	377
33	Anthony	374
34	Gerald	330
35	Walter	322
36	Wayne	296
37	Roger	282
38	Douglas	273
39	Brian	265
39	Jeffrey	265
41	Ralph	258
42	Frederick	243
43	Albert	231
44	Henry	219
45	Gregory	210
46	Barry	197
47	Russell	194
48	Louis	190
48	Timothy	190
50	Carl	188
51	Leonard	179
52	Alfred	173
53	Stanley	161
54	Patrick	156
55	Christopher	155
56	Norman	151
57	Harold	148
58	Ernest	137
59	Glenn	136
60	Gerard	132
61	Bernard	131
62	Leo	125
63	Andrew	124
64	Eugene	122
65	Martin	119
65	Roy	119
67	Vincent	115
68	Howard	112
69	Larry	110
70	Warren	108
71	Dana	106
72	Harry	103
73	Craig	96
74	Fred	91
74	Roland	91
74	Theodore	91
77	Allen	90
77	Eric	90
79	Herbert	88
80	Allan	87
81	Nicholas	84
82	Scott	78
83	Gordon	76
84	Jonathan	72
85	Joel	71
86	Edwin	69
87	Clifford	64
88	Keith	59
88	Lee	59
88	Neil	59
88	Phillip	59
88	Victor	59
93	Jack	58
94	Geoffrey	56
95	Marc	54
96	Earl	53
97	Samuel	52
98	Chester	50
99	Dale	49
99	Edmund	49