Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1983

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	1,544
3	Christopher	1,524
4	Daniel	1,053
5	David	1,015
6	John	898
7	James	871
8	Andrew	851
9	Joseph	846
10	Jason	834
11	Brian	789
12	Robert	780
13	Ryan	718
14	Adam	673
15	Jonathan	657
16	Joshua	633
17	Jeffrey	569
18	Timothy	554
19	Kevin	542
20	Nicholas	533
21	William	526
22	Justin	512
23	Thomas	489
24	Eric	482
25	Mark	472

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Stephen	468
27	Richard	454
28	Patrick	433
28	Steven	433
30	Sean	406
31	Anthony	400
32	Paul	365
33	Benjamin	332
34	Gregory	330
35	Scott	318
36	Peter	309
37	Nathan	245
38	Derek	231
39	Keith	212
40	Charles	204
41	Brandon	199
42	Kyle	193
43	Alexander	191
43	Jeremy	191
45	Edward	180
46	Bryan	168
47	Shawn	166
48	Kenneth	162
49	Aaron	161
50	Jared	154
51	Jesse	140
52	Zachary	138
53	Craig	137
54	Brendan	124
55	George	122
55	Jacob	122
57	Philip	119
58	Ian	117
59	Marc	111
60	Jose	107
61	Evan	106
62	Douglas	99
63	Chad	96
64	Dennis	92
64	Shaun	92
66	Raymond	91
67	Samuel	90
68	Corey	87
68	Donald	87
70	Brett	85
71	Erik	84
71	Luis	84
71	Todd	84
74	Nathaniel	81
74	Seth	81
74	Tyler	81
77	Ronald	80
78	Gary	75
79	Shane	73
80	Joel	71
81	Frank	66
82	Christian	62
82	Colin	62
84	Alan	61
85	Carlos	58
85	Francis	58
85	Victor	58
88	Phillip	56
88	Travis	56
90	Dustin	51
90	Geoffrey	51
90	Vincent	51
93	Luke	50
94	Cory	49
95	Mathew	48
95	Miguel	48
97	Angel	46
97	Juan	46
97	Kristopher	46
100	Carl	45
100	Curtis	45