Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1950

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,212
2	John	3,077
3	Richard	2,251
4	James	2,213
5	William	2,089
6	David	1,927
7	Michael	1,866
8	Paul	1,729
9	Thomas	1,502
10	Stephen	1,295
11	Joseph	1,258
12	Charles	942
13	Edward	928
14	Peter	849
15	Donald	781
16	Kenneth	755
17	Ronald	732
18	George	674
19	Dennis	666
20	Steven	645
21	Daniel	641
22	Gary	600
23	Mark	577
24	Kevin	547
25	Bruce	540

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Francis	466
27	Alan	422
28	Wayne	412
29	Raymond	392
30	Lawrence	391
31	Frank	352
32	Philip	347
33	Anthony	343
34	Arthur	336
35	Brian	334
36	Jeffrey	312
37	Douglas	307
38	Walter	283
39	Gerald	274
40	Roger	255
41	Frederick	233
42	Christopher	229
43	Ralph	226
44	Gregory	222
45	Russell	205
46	Timothy	199
47	Albert	194
48	Barry	179
49	Andrew	165
50	Glenn	160
51	Henry	157
52	Alfred	152
53	Carl	151
53	Patrick	151
55	Louis	146
56	Gerard	142
57	Leonard	140
58	Norman	139
59	Scott	134
60	Stanley	123
61	Howard	119
62	Harold	117
63	Dana	115
64	Ernest	114
64	Vincent	114
66	Martin	113
66	Warren	113
68	Eugene	112
68	Leo	112
70	Eric	104
71	Theodore	94
72	Allan	90
72	Craig	90
72	Jonathan	90
75	Larry	88
75	Roy	88
77	Harry	87
78	Bernard	86
79	Keith	80
79	Nicholas	80
81	Gordon	79
81	Neil	79
83	Allen	75
84	Roland	72
85	Fred	68
86	Clifford	66
87	Phillip	63
88	Joel	62
89	Jay	61
90	Victor	60
91	Bradford	59
91	Denis	59
93	Earl	58
93	Edwin	58
95	Herbert	56
95	Marc	56
95	Matthew	56
98	Samuel	55
99	Lee	54
99	Randall	54