Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1981

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,165
2	Matthew	1,491
3	Christopher	1,327
4	David	1,125
5	Jason	942
6	John	901
7	Daniel	879
8	Joseph	873
9	James	848
10	Robert	801
11	Brian	775
12	Jonathan	709
13	Joshua	640
14	Ryan	626
15	Adam	587
16	Jeffrey	578
17	William	570
18	Nicholas	565
19	Kevin	560
20	Andrew	559
21	Justin	557
22	Timothy	549
23	Thomas	517
24	Eric	482
25	Richard	450

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Sean	416
27	Mark	415
28	Paul	406
29	Scott	402
30	Patrick	388
30	Stephen	388
32	Anthony	372
33	Steven	345
34	Peter	332
35	Benjamin	323
36	Jeremy	250
37	Gregory	243
38	Derek	228
39	Jesse	223
40	Nathan	221
41	Shawn	213
42	Edward	209
43	Charles	204
44	Kenneth	195
45	Keith	178
46	Aaron	172
47	Alexander	164
48	Brandon	159
49	Craig	146
50	Bryan	143
51	Jared	139
52	George	129
52	Philip	129
54	Jose	126
55	Brendan	122
55	Erik	122
57	Donald	121
58	Marc	119
59	Jacob	116
59	Shaun	116
61	Dennis	114
61	Samuel	114
63	Kyle	105
64	Douglas	101
65	Chad	99
66	Corey	96
67	Luis	94
68	Ian	91
69	Todd	88
69	Zachary	88
71	Seth	85
72	Raymond	83
73	Shane	81
74	Joel	79
74	Ronald	79
76	Nathaniel	78
77	Evan	74
78	Mathew	72
79	Gary	70
80	Frank	69
81	Alan	68
81	Luke	68
83	Francis	61
84	Phillip	59
85	Vincent	58
86	Angel	57
86	Carlos	57
88	Russell	56
89	Brett	55
89	Travis	55
91	Victor	54
92	Alex	52
92	Brad	52
92	Lee	52
95	Dana	51
95	Juan	51
97	Jamie	50
98	Antonio	49
99	Bradford	47
99	Christian	47
99	Derrick	47