Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1955

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	3,359
2	Robert	3,290
3	David	2,886
4	Michael	2,859
5	James	2,402
6	Richard	2,283
7	William	1,975
8	Paul	1,949
9	Thomas	1,600
10	Mark	1,541
11	Stephen	1,462
12	Joseph	1,410
13	Steven	1,212
14	Peter	1,008
15	Edward	905
16	Kevin	904
17	Daniel	893
18	Gary	850
19	Charles	758
20	Donald	734
21	Kenneth	730
22	Brian	711
23	Jeffrey	605
24	Ronald	584
25	George	571

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Bruce	532
27	Dennis	503
28	Timothy	477
29	Wayne	412
30	Alan	407
31	Anthony	390
32	Christopher	375
33	Raymond	353
34	Scott	346
35	Francis	345
36	Lawrence	343
37	Douglas	339
38	Frank	313
39	Philip	305
40	Arthur	291
41	Gregory	289
42	Keith	237
43	Frederick	234
44	Gerald	231
45	Walter	230
46	Roger	227
47	Patrick	205
48	Barry	202
49	Andrew	198
50	Glenn	197
51	Albert	178
51	Russell	178
53	Dana	168
54	Jonathan	164
55	Carl	158
56	Louis	148
57	Craig	144
57	Henry	144
59	Ralph	143
60	Marc	137
61	Gerard	136
62	Matthew	133
63	Norman	132
64	Eric	130
65	Vincent	129
66	Leonard	125
67	Martin	120
68	Alfred	119
69	Jay	118
70	Howard	110
71	Eugene	109
72	Theodore	108
73	Harold	106
74	Stanley	101
75	Ernest	99
76	Roy	98
77	Leo	95
78	Larry	94
79	Neil	91
80	Warren	90
81	Jon	85
81	Nicholas	85
83	Harry	80
83	Phillip	80
85	Allen	79
85	Gordon	79
87	Bernard	72
88	Bradford	70
89	Clifford	68
90	Dean	67
90	Lee	67
92	Edwin	66
93	Karl	64
93	Samuel	64
95	Glen	63
96	Joel	61
97	Allan	60
98	Randall	59
99	Fred	58
99	Randy	58