Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1954

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,387
2	John	3,251
3	Michael	2,807
4	David	2,681
5	Richard	2,515
6	James	2,329
7	William	2,113
8	Paul	1,880
9	Thomas	1,618
10	Stephen	1,446
11	Joseph	1,423
12	Mark	1,266
13	Steven	1,034
14	Peter	1,000
15	Kevin	935
16	Edward	925
17	Gary	915
18	Charles	805
19	Daniel	790
20	Donald	756
21	Kenneth	715
22	Ronald	625
23	Brian	562
24	George	558
25	Bruce	539

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Jeffrey	513
27	Dennis	476
28	Wayne	458
29	Anthony	390
30	Francis	368
31	Lawrence	352
32	Alan	351
32	Philip	351
34	Raymond	346
35	Timothy	335
36	Douglas	331
37	Frank	296
37	Scott	296
39	Christopher	289
40	Arthur	263
41	Gregory	246
42	Walter	238
43	Frederick	235
44	Patrick	230
45	Barry	211
46	Gerald	205
46	Russell	205
48	Roger	195
49	Andrew	182
49	Glenn	182
51	Albert	180
52	Carl	178
53	Ralph	176
54	Dana	170
55	Jonathan	169
56	Keith	168
57	Gerard	166
58	Louis	146
59	Norman	145
60	Henry	138
61	Leonard	137
62	Eric	136
63	Craig	130
64	Vincent	129
65	Stanley	128
66	Eugene	116
67	Leo	113
67	Martin	113
69	Ernest	107
70	Howard	105
71	Harold	104
72	Alfred	101
73	Matthew	97
73	Neil	97
75	Marc	95
76	Roy	93
77	Nicholas	91
78	Allan	86
79	Allen	84
79	Theodore	84
81	Jay	82
82	Larry	78
83	Bernard	77
84	Jon	76
85	Randall	75
85	Roland	75
87	Warren	71
88	Joel	69
89	Dean	67
90	Guy	66
91	Bradford	65
92	Clifford	62
92	Stuart	62
94	Gordon	61
94	Harry	61
96	Jack	60
96	Samuel	60
98	Karl	59
98	Laurence	59
100	Edmund	58