Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1958

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	3,370
2	Michael	3,322
3	Robert	3,123
4	David	3,018
5	James	2,582
6	Richard	2,206
7	William	2,002
8	Mark	1,980
9	Paul	1,796
10	Thomas	1,643
11	Joseph	1,460
12	Stephen	1,355
13	Steven	1,155
14	Kevin	1,007
15	Brian	984
16	Peter	964
17	Daniel	928
18	Edward	835
19	Charles	767
20	Kenneth	754
21	Donald	713
22	Scott	693
23	Jeffrey	669
24	Gary	636
25	Ronald	580

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Timothy	569
27	Christopher	535
28	George	513
29	Anthony	463
30	Bruce	448
31	Douglas	397
32	Wayne	394
33	Dennis	353
34	Frank	343
35	Alan	338
36	Raymond	337
37	Lawrence	330
38	Philip	329
39	Gregory	304
40	Francis	289
41	Matthew	267
42	Arthur	258
43	Keith	249
44	Andrew	247
45	Eric	233
46	Patrick	232
47	Glenn	221
48	Barry	216
49	Russell	197
50	Frederick	187
51	Gerald	186
51	Walter	186
53	Jonathan	184
54	Carl	165
55	Albert	163
56	Craig	158
56	Jay	158
58	Roger	146
59	Dana	142
60	Marc	141
61	Louis	139
61	Ralph	139
63	Martin	138
64	Gerard	127
65	Larry	123
65	Norman	123
67	Dale	119
67	Leonard	119
69	Vincent	116
70	Neil	111
71	Nicholas	110
72	Howard	108
73	Alfred	106
74	Eugene	105
75	Henry	104
75	Steve	104
77	Leo	100
78	Dean	97
79	Glen	96
80	Mike	94
81	Stanley	91
82	Roy	90
83	Allen	89
84	Allan	85
85	Harold	83
86	Warren	80
87	Joel	76
88	Phillip	74
89	Ernest	73
90	Clifford	72
90	Jon	72
92	Bryan	70
92	Gordon	70
92	Sean	70
95	Randy	69
96	Fred	68
96	Theodore	68
98	Bernard	67
99	Karl	66
99	Todd	66