Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1949

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,300
2	John	3,250
3	Richard	2,420
4	James	2,161
5	William	2,064
6	David	1,947
7	Michael	1,814
8	Paul	1,686
9	Thomas	1,510
10	Stephen	1,245
11	Joseph	1,236
12	Edward	997
13	Charles	870
14	Peter	866
15	Ronald	810
16	George	777
17	Donald	758
18	Kenneth	745
19	Daniel	682
20	Mark	550
21	Dennis	535
22	Steven	530
23	Bruce	495
24	Francis	472
25	Kevin	412

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Raymond	393
27	Gary	382
28	Alan	374
29	Arthur	369
30	Philip	365
31	Lawrence	364
32	Frank	343
33	Anthony	338
34	Douglas	334
35	Gerald	332
36	Walter	306
37	Jeffrey	303
38	Wayne	301
39	Brian	291
40	Frederick	280
41	Roger	245
42	Albert	220
43	Gregory	218
44	Russell	210
45	Ralph	199
46	Christopher	197
47	Barry	195
47	Timothy	195
49	Henry	186
50	Louis	174
51	Andrew	165
51	Stanley	165
53	Leonard	160
54	Carl	157
55	Glenn	144
56	Patrick	143
57	Gerard	139
58	Harold	137
59	Norman	135
60	Alfred	127
60	Eugene	127
62	Vincent	125
63	Leo	120
64	Howard	115
65	Dana	109
65	Larry	109
65	Martin	109
68	Bernard	108
69	Ernest	107
70	Scott	106
71	Eric	101
72	Harry	100
73	Craig	93
74	Warren	91
75	Jonathan	85
75	Roy	85
77	Theodore	84
78	Neil	80
79	Clifford	79
80	Nicholas	77
81	Roland	76
82	Allen	75
83	Fred	72
84	Allan	71
85	Phillip	65
86	Edwin	64
86	Joel	64
88	Keith	63
89	Edmund	60
89	Lee	60
91	Gordon	58
92	Jay	57
92	Marc	57
92	Victor	57
95	Herbert	54
96	Samuel	51
97	Chester	50
97	Denis	50
99	Maurice	48
100	Arnold	47
100	Leslie	47