Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1951

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,335
2	John	3,257
3	Richard	2,378
4	James	2,192
5	Michael	2,076
6	William	2,053
7	David	2,034
8	Paul	1,763
9	Thomas	1,629
10	Stephen	1,533
11	Joseph	1,326
12	Edward	898
13	Peter	881
14	Charles	879
15	Steven	780
16	Gary	767
17	Donald	761
18	Kenneth	751
19	Mark	710
20	George	705
21	Dennis	701
22	Ronald	687
23	Daniel	677
24	Kevin	581
25	Bruce	533

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Francis	446
27	Alan	427
28	Wayne	414
29	Brian	376
30	Raymond	369
31	Lawrence	362
32	Anthony	353
33	Arthur	337
33	Douglas	337
35	Jeffrey	333
36	Frank	303
36	Philip	303
38	Frederick	279
39	Gerald	275
40	Christopher	272
41	Walter	263
42	Roger	240
43	Timothy	236
44	Gregory	222
45	Ralph	212
46	Albert	201
47	Russell	200
48	Andrew	192
49	Barry	189
50	Henry	181
51	Carl	178
52	Patrick	168
53	Leonard	166
53	Louis	166
55	Glenn	158
56	Stanley	154
57	Alfred	153
58	Leo	150
59	Gerard	144
59	Scott	144
61	Vincent	143
62	Norman	141
63	Eric	126
64	Harold	125
65	Ernest	123
66	Martin	119
67	Dana	118
68	Craig	115
68	Jonathan	115
70	Theodore	105
71	Warren	102
72	Larry	97
72	Nicholas	97
74	Eugene	95
75	Roland	94
76	Roy	92
77	Bernard	90
77	Neil	90
79	Howard	88
80	Keith	82
81	Harry	80
81	Victor	80
83	Allan	75
83	Gordon	75
85	Allen	73
86	Clifford	71
86	Herbert	71
88	Jay	70
89	Phillip	69
90	Joel	67
90	Marc	67
92	Dean	63
92	Matthew	63
94	Dale	61
94	Stuart	61
96	Lee	60
97	Fred	58
97	Samuel	58
99	Edmund	54
100	Laurence	50