Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1960

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	3,475
2	Michael	3,264
3	David	3,110
4	Robert	2,846
5	James	2,504
6	Mark	2,155
7	Richard	1,946
8	William	1,861
9	Paul	1,802
10	Thomas	1,668
11	Joseph	1,480
12	Stephen	1,237
13	Steven	1,236
14	Kevin	1,068
15	Brian	1,027
16	Daniel	1,013
17	Peter	997
18	Jeffrey	791
19	Scott	778
20	Edward	772
21	Kenneth	739
22	Charles	699
23	Christopher	682
24	Timothy	681
25	Donald	663

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Gary	568
27	Ronald	540
28	George	485
29	Anthony	424
30	Bruce	406
31	Andrew	356
31	Douglas	356
33	Raymond	337
34	Dennis	333
35	Gregory	328
36	Wayne	323
37	Philip	322
38	Alan	317
39	Eric	316
40	Frank	298
41	Lawrence	272
42	Matthew	263
43	Francis	262
44	Patrick	248
45	Keith	246
46	Craig	233
47	Glenn	214
48	Arthur	212
49	Russell	211
50	Walter	206
51	Barry	198
52	Jonathan	188
53	Frederick	176
54	Gerald	173
55	Roger	170
56	Carl	168
57	Dana	162
58	Jay	153
59	Vincent	152
60	Louis	149
61	Ralph	148
62	Albert	138
63	Dean	130
64	Steve	129
65	Martin	123
66	Marc	121
67	Gerard	114
68	Sean	112
69	Jon	111
70	Henry	106
71	Mike	101
72	Dale	100
72	Shawn	100
74	Leonard	98
75	Larry	97
76	Alfred	95
76	Nicholas	95
78	Eugene	93
78	Neil	93
78	Phillip	93
81	Harold	90
81	Todd	90
83	Randy	89
84	Howard	87
85	Ernest	82
85	Leo	82
87	Chris	80
88	Theodore	78
89	Karl	77
89	Norman	77
91	Bryan	74
91	Roy	74
93	Glen	72
94	Randall	71
95	Fred	70
96	Stanley	69
97	Allen	66
98	Gordon	63
98	Jeff	63
98	Joel	63