Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1980

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,017
2	Matthew	1,238
3	Christopher	1,222
4	Jason	1,134
5	David	1,038
6	John	952
7	Daniel	878
8	James	832
9	Robert	798
10	Brian	786
11	Joseph	780
12	Joshua	591
13	Timothy	573
14	Eric	571
15	Ryan	570
15	William	570
17	Andrew	563
18	Jeffrey	555
19	Jonathan	549
20	Adam	526
21	Kevin	520
22	Thomas	507
23	Nicholas	506
24	Justin	501
25	Mark	473

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Richard	436
27	Paul	419
28	Scott	404
29	Stephen	376
30	Anthony	356
30	Steven	356
32	Sean	349
33	Patrick	348
34	Peter	336
35	Benjamin	322
36	Derek	277
37	Gregory	257
38	Shawn	244
39	Jeremy	242
40	Nathan	229
41	Kenneth	226
42	Keith	221
43	Charles	208
44	Edward	203
45	Aaron	197
46	Jesse	179
47	Alexander	148
48	Craig	143
49	Jared	138
50	Bryan	137
51	Jose	136
52	Erik	129
53	Dennis	125
53	George	125
55	Brendan	124
55	Philip	124
57	Marc	122
58	Shaun	119
59	Jacob	116
60	Todd	110
61	Chad	107
61	Douglas	107
61	Seth	107
64	Donald	104
65	Ronald	100
66	Ian	98
66	Joel	98
68	Corey	96
69	Samuel	94
70	Nathaniel	92
71	Gary	91
71	Kyle	91
71	Shane	91
74	Luis	89
75	Raymond	85
76	Brandon	81
77	Luke	76
78	Brett	71
79	Russell	70
80	Alan	69
80	Colin	69
82	Francis	67
83	Carlos	66
84	Brad	64
85	Juan	63
85	Zachary	63
87	Christian	58
87	Phillip	58
89	Evan	57
90	Frank	56
90	Wayne	56
92	Victor	55
93	Frederick	54
93	Jamie	54
95	Vincent	52
96	Jay	51
97	Kurt	50
98	Louis	49
99	Jon	48
100	Angel	47
100	Carl	47
100	Lee	47