Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1986

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,199
2	Christopher	1,522
3	Matthew	1,485
4	Daniel	1,159
5	David	955
6	Andrew	954
7	Joseph	893
8	James	882
9	John	865
10	Ryan	847
11	Robert	799
12	Jonathan	742
13	Brian	736
14	Nicholas	718
15	Joshua	668
16	Kevin	629
17	William	588
18	Timothy	583
19	Jason	576
20	Thomas	568
21	Eric	530
21	Jeffrey	530
23	Justin	520
24	Adam	507
25	Anthony	498

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Patrick	478
27	Sean	469
28	Stephen	458
29	Richard	448
30	Steven	436
31	Mark	427
32	Alexander	419
33	Kyle	396
34	Benjamin	384
35	Peter	368
36	Paul	354
37	Scott	312
38	Gregory	311
39	Brandon	279
40	Jeremy	247
41	Bryan	235
42	Nathan	229
43	Charles	219
44	Zachary	218
45	Shawn	211
46	Derek	194
47	Edward	186
48	Keith	183
49	Aaron	180
50	Brendan	175
51	Samuel	173
52	Corey	169
52	Craig	169
54	Jared	168
55	Jacob	163
56	Kenneth	161
57	Ian	159
58	Jesse	158
59	Tyler	156
60	Jose	139
61	Evan	136
62	George	123
63	Alex	121
64	Shane	110
65	Philip	107
66	Marc	106
67	Nathaniel	102
68	Douglas	96
69	Joel	95
70	Erik	90
71	Luis	87
72	Colin	84
73	Chad	83
74	Dennis	82
75	Donald	79
75	Shaun	79
77	Brett	78
78	Raymond	75
79	Jordan	73
80	Seth	71
81	Ronald	70
81	Travis	70
83	Alan	68
83	Mathew	68
83	Russell	68
86	Francis	65
86	Luke	65
88	Cory	63
88	Ross	63
90	Frank	62
90	Phillip	62
92	Juan	61
93	Christian	60
94	Gabriel	59
95	Angel	58
95	Carlos	58
95	Vincent	58
98	Dustin	57
99	Todd	56
100	Dana	54
100	Garrett	54
100	Geoffrey	54