Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1959

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	3,389
2	Michael	3,247
3	Robert	3,032
4	David	2,935
5	James	2,538
6	Richard	2,038
7	Mark	2,013
8	William	1,919
9	Paul	1,740
10	Thomas	1,634
11	Joseph	1,397
12	Stephen	1,265
13	Steven	1,242
14	Peter	1,118
15	Kevin	1,027
16	Brian	992
17	Daniel	960
18	Edward	843
19	Jeffrey	711
20	Kenneth	704
21	Charles	693
22	Timothy	689
23	Donald	680
24	Scott	634
25	Gary	579

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Ronald	566
27	Christopher	536
28	George	523
29	Anthony	442
30	Bruce	432
31	Wayne	385
32	Douglas	383
33	Dennis	376
34	Gregory	319
35	Alan	306
36	Raymond	305
37	Frank	304
38	Philip	298
39	Andrew	281
40	Lawrence	275
41	Patrick	266
42	Francis	256
43	Eric	251
44	Matthew	250
45	Keith	242
46	Arthur	222
47	Russell	209
48	Barry	205
48	Craig	205
50	Glenn	198
51	Walter	189
52	Gerald	175
53	Jonathan	172
54	Dana	162
54	Roger	162
56	Carl	152
57	Frederick	145
58	Marc	143
59	Louis	141
59	Vincent	141
61	Steve	135
62	Larry	133
63	Ralph	132
64	Albert	131
65	Jay	130
66	Martin	128
67	Gerard	109
68	Henry	101
69	Mike	99
69	Shawn	99
71	Norman	98
72	Leo	97
73	Eugene	96
74	Dale	94
74	Dean	94
76	Ernest	91
77	Neil	90
78	Alfred	89
78	Jon	89
78	Leonard	89
78	Sean	89
82	Nicholas	88
83	Glen	86
84	Roy	85
85	Harold	84
86	Bryan	81
87	Howard	80
88	Joel	79
89	Stanley	75
90	Randy	72
91	Chris	71
91	Todd	71
93	Phillip	69
94	Bernard	68
94	Theodore	68
96	Karl	67
97	Warren	66
98	Allen	63
99	Lee	61
99	Randall	61