Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1952

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,410
2	John	3,389
3	Richard	2,557
4	Michael	2,434
5	David	2,315
6	James	2,268
7	William	2,151
8	Paul	1,848
9	Thomas	1,615
10	Stephen	1,523
11	Joseph	1,308
12	Steven	928
13	Peter	922
14	Edward	904
15	Charles	887
16	Mark	871
17	Gary	803
18	Daniel	789
19	Donald	781
20	Kenneth	757
21	Dennis	722
22	George	672
23	Ronald	657
24	Bruce	578
24	Kevin	578

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Brian	427
27	Francis	409
27	Raymond	409
29	Alan	385
29	Wayne	385
31	Anthony	383
32	Lawrence	359
33	Philip	353
34	Jeffrey	352
35	Douglas	311
36	Arthur	305
37	Frank	303
38	Christopher	287
39	Gerald	285
40	Roger	267
41	Frederick	266
42	Timothy	247
43	Walter	244
44	Gregory	220
45	Russell	212
46	Scott	209
47	Barry	200
48	Albert	190
48	Ralph	190
50	Leonard	184
51	Andrew	176
52	Patrick	174
53	Henry	166
54	Carl	160
55	Glenn	152
56	Stanley	144
57	Louis	142
58	Norman	140
59	Alfred	138
60	Eric	137
61	Martin	136
62	Dana	130
63	Vincent	127
64	Craig	124
65	Jonathan	122
66	Keith	121
67	Eugene	118
68	Harold	112
69	Howard	108
70	Gerard	104
71	Allen	101
71	Theodore	101
73	Warren	100
74	Bernard	97
75	Nicholas	96
76	Harry	94
77	Larry	93
78	Leo	92
79	Ernest	90
80	Marc	89
81	Neil	86
82	Roy	83
83	Allan	80
83	Jay	80
85	Lee	73
86	Gordon	71
87	Fred	68
87	Roland	68
89	Matthew	65
90	Dale	64
90	Edmund	64
90	Phillip	64
93	Clifford	63
93	Dean	63
95	Edwin	62
95	Randall	62
97	Denis	57
97	Karl	57
99	Joel	55
100	Herbert	54