Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1953

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,414
2	John	3,212
3	Michael	2,582
4	Richard	2,457
5	David	2,407
6	James	2,358
7	William	2,096
8	Paul	1,868
9	Thomas	1,622
10	Stephen	1,478
11	Joseph	1,354
12	Mark	1,013
13	Steven	1,002
14	Peter	956
15	Edward	878
16	Gary	855
17	Charles	816
18	Donald	785
19	Daniel	741
20	Kevin	727
21	Kenneth	720
22	Dennis	609
23	George	591
24	Ronald	583
25	Jeffrey	527

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Bruce	519
27	Brian	472
28	Francis	415
29	Wayne	410
30	Alan	402
31	Raymond	390
32	Anthony	359
33	Lawrence	355
34	Philip	334
35	Douglas	333
36	Timothy	324
37	Frank	306
38	Arthur	288
39	Christopher	279
40	Scott	241
41	Walter	234
42	Frederick	232
42	Roger	232
44	Gregory	211
44	Ralph	211
46	Gerald	209
47	Albert	205
48	Russell	196
49	Patrick	194
50	Carl	192
51	Andrew	188
52	Barry	173
53	Leonard	160
54	Glenn	157
55	Henry	149
56	Keith	144
57	Louis	142
58	Alfred	140
59	Jonathan	139
60	Dana	137
61	Stanley	135
62	Harold	127
63	Leo	126
64	Martin	123
65	Nicholas	121
65	Norman	121
67	Eric	117
67	Gerard	117
69	Vincent	116
70	Craig	115
71	Roy	107
72	Howard	102
73	Ernest	98
74	Eugene	96
75	Jay	90
76	Larry	89
77	Marc	87
77	Warren	87
79	Bernard	86
80	Clifford	85
81	Neil	82
82	Bradford	81
82	Gordon	81
84	Theodore	80
85	Harry	78
85	Matthew	78
87	Allen	70
88	Jon	67
89	Dean	65
89	Roland	65
91	Edmund	63
91	Samuel	63
93	Allan	61
94	Denis	60
94	Phillip	60
96	Stuart	59
97	Edwin	57
97	Lee	57
99	Joel	56
99	Laurence	56