Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1957

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	3,528
2	Michael	3,221
3	Robert	3,201
4	David	2,895
5	James	2,555
6	Richard	2,257
7	William	1,999
8	Mark	1,894
9	Paul	1,856
10	Thomas	1,698
11	Joseph	1,495
12	Stephen	1,412
13	Steven	1,178
14	Peter	1,102
15	Kevin	1,048
16	Brian	1,036
17	Daniel	1,010
18	Edward	917
19	Charles	793
20	Donald	770
21	Gary	761
22	Kenneth	752
23	Jeffrey	655
24	Ronald	642
25	Scott	589

Rank	Name	Babies
26	George	587
27	Timothy	527
28	Bruce	523
29	Christopher	447
30	Anthony	440
31	Douglas	406
32	Dennis	391
33	Wayne	372
34	Lawrence	367
35	Philip	354
36	Raymond	341
37	Alan	337
38	Gregory	324
39	Francis	321
40	Frank	312
41	Keith	269
42	Andrew	258
43	Arthur	249
44	Patrick	245
45	Glenn	232
46	Barry	221
47	Russell	217
48	Matthew	206
49	Frederick	202
50	Eric	200
51	Gerald	195
52	Ralph	190
53	Jonathan	185
54	Walter	181
55	Carl	176
56	Roger	165
57	Marc	155
58	Leonard	152
59	Louis	151
60	Albert	149
60	Dana	149
62	Martin	143
63	Craig	139
63	Gerard	139
65	Jay	129
66	Norman	123
67	Vincent	122
68	Alfred	117
69	Roy	115
70	Eugene	114
71	Larry	113
72	Henry	108
73	Harold	107
74	Leo	105
74	Theodore	105
76	Howard	102
77	Neil	94
78	Randy	91
79	Dean	87
80	Steve	86
81	Ernest	84
81	Nicholas	84
81	Stanley	84
84	Glen	82
85	Joel	81
86	Jon	80
86	Phillip	80
88	Bernard	78
89	Gordon	77
90	Karl	74
91	Clifford	70
92	Jack	68
93	Dale	67
94	Allen	66
95	Warren	65
96	Neal	63
97	Allan	62
97	Sean	62
99	Harry	60
100	Fred	59