Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1956

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	3,300
2	Robert	3,231
3	Michael	3,061
4	David	2,768
5	James	2,427
6	Richard	2,178
7	William	2,068
8	Paul	1,883
9	Mark	1,726
10	Thomas	1,673
11	Joseph	1,566
12	Stephen	1,479
13	Steven	1,202
14	Kevin	1,016
15	Peter	1,014
16	Brian	987
17	Daniel	898
18	Edward	876
19	Gary	821
20	Charles	814
21	Donald	743
22	Kenneth	725
23	Jeffrey	654
24	Ronald	627
25	George	555

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Bruce	509
27	Timothy	471
28	Scott	430
29	Wayne	419
30	Alan	398
31	Christopher	387
32	Anthony	385
33	Dennis	373
34	Douglas	366
35	Raymond	356
36	Lawrence	334
36	Philip	334
38	Francis	322
39	Frank	315
40	Gregory	305
41	Arthur	259
42	Keith	238
42	Russell	238
44	Andrew	237
45	Patrick	231
46	Gerald	225
47	Barry	210
48	Roger	199
49	Frederick	192
50	Glenn	187
51	Walter	185
52	Jonathan	172
53	Carl	171
54	Albert	169
55	Louis	154
55	Ralph	154
57	Dana	153
58	Craig	150
59	Martin	149
60	Eric	148
61	Matthew	145
62	Henry	143
63	Alfred	137
64	Jay	134
65	Norman	133
65	Vincent	133
67	Gerard	129
68	Leonard	123
69	Leo	120
70	Marc	119
71	Ernest	109
72	Harold	104
73	Larry	101
73	Nicholas	101
75	Eugene	99
75	Stanley	99
77	Neil	96
78	Joel	90
79	Theodore	88
80	Roy	87
81	Bernard	82
82	Howard	81
83	Warren	80
84	Phillip	76
85	Allen	75
86	Allan	74
87	Clifford	71
87	Dean	71
87	Gordon	71
87	Jon	71
91	Bradford	70
91	Bryan	70
93	Randy	68
94	Dale	67
94	Glen	67
96	Lee	63
97	Edwin	62
98	Laurence	60
98	Steve	60
100	Fred	58
100	Roland	58