Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1961

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	3,610
2	Michael	3,299
3	Robert	3,006
4	David	2,951
5	James	2,564
6	Mark	2,033
7	Richard	1,900
8	William	1,786
9	Paul	1,675
10	Thomas	1,572
11	Joseph	1,453
12	Stephen	1,230
13	Steven	1,113
14	Kevin	1,094
15	Daniel	1,045
16	Brian	1,007
17	Peter	926
18	Scott	886
19	Edward	854
20	Jeffrey	833
21	Christopher	808
22	Kenneth	729
23	Timothy	723
24	Charles	653
25	Gary	593

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Donald	587
27	Ronald	533
28	George	483
29	Anthony	469
30	Douglas	422
31	Bruce	389
32	Gregory	371
33	Andrew	335
34	Raymond	325
35	Alan	322
36	Eric	319
37	Dennis	318
38	Frank	309
39	Wayne	301
40	Philip	299
41	Patrick	291
42	Keith	284
43	Glenn	280
44	Matthew	277
45	Francis	264
46	Lawrence	239
47	Russell	224
48	Craig	206
49	Arthur	203
50	Barry	197
51	Roger	196
52	Todd	171
53	Carl	169
54	Jonathan	166
55	Dana	165
56	Frederick	161
57	Marc	160
58	Walter	156
59	Gerald	155
60	Jay	148
61	Ralph	144
62	Sean	140
63	Martin	136
64	Dean	121
65	Henry	120
66	Chris	119
67	Albert	115
68	Louis	114
69	Steve	113
70	Shawn	112
71	Vincent	108
72	Leonard	107
73	Neil	99
74	Glen	98
75	Norman	97
76	Ernest	95
77	Jon	94
77	Nicholas	94
79	Eugene	93
79	Gerard	93
79	Larry	93
82	Mike	91
83	Dale	89
84	Theodore	88
85	Alfred	87
86	Roy	80
87	Leo	79
87	Randy	79
89	Phillip	78
90	Bryan	77
90	Howard	77
92	Jeff	73
93	Randall	72
94	Harold	71
95	Karl	68
96	Victor	67
97	Jeffery	65
97	Kurt	65
97	Stanley	65
100	Joel	64