Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1985

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,122
2	Matthew	1,564
3	Christopher	1,555
4	Daniel	1,205
5	David	977
6	John	969
7	Ryan	944
8	Andrew	928
9	Joseph	918
10	James	884
11	Robert	845
12	Brian	805
13	Jonathan	741
14	Joshua	734
15	Nicholas	706
16	Jason	646
17	Kevin	587
18	Timothy	579
19	William	575
20	Adam	569
21	Thomas	544
22	Eric	531
23	Jeffrey	526
24	Anthony	512
25	Justin	503

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Stephen	501
27	Patrick	473
28	Sean	466
29	Mark	446
30	Richard	430
31	Steven	424
32	Benjamin	389
33	Paul	384
34	Gregory	332
34	Scott	332
36	Alexander	324
36	Kyle	324
36	Peter	324
39	Brandon	305
40	Derek	264
41	Charles	229
42	Nathan	216
43	Bryan	201
44	Aaron	197
44	Zachary	197
46	Jeremy	193
47	Edward	192
48	Keith	187
49	Kenneth	183
50	Shawn	180
51	Jacob	171
52	Samuel	167
53	Jesse	165
54	Brendan	164
55	Tyler	152
56	Jose	143
57	Jared	141
58	Craig	138
59	Ian	137
60	Douglas	133
61	Corey	129
62	Evan	125
63	George	117
64	Nathaniel	109
65	Marc	107
66	Erik	102
67	Donald	101
68	Philip	99
69	Alex	98
70	Dennis	95
71	Joel	92
72	Shane	88
73	Brett	85
73	Chad	85
75	Colin	83
75	Luis	83
77	Frank	78
77	Shaun	78
79	Ronald	76
80	Travis	74
81	Raymond	73
82	Todd	68
83	Gary	67
84	Carlos	66
84	Jordan	66
86	Alan	65
86	Dustin	65
88	Christian	62
89	Juan	61
90	Cory	59
90	Ross	59
92	Phillip	58
93	Vincent	57
94	Angel	55
94	Dana	55
96	Seth	54
97	Marcus	53
97	Trevor	53
99	Derrick	52
99	Luke	52