Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1987

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,258
2	Matthew	1,567
3	Christopher	1,489
4	Daniel	1,195
5	David	1,043
6	Andrew	1,013
7	John	964
8	Joseph	866
9	Ryan	826
10	James	822
11	Robert	794
12	Nicholas	791
13	Joshua	757
14	Jonathan	724
15	Brian	712
16	Kevin	643
17	Justin	623
18	Thomas	607
18	Timothy	607
20	William	591
21	Anthony	559
22	Jeffrey	532
23	Jason	527
24	Eric	523
25	Patrick	519

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Alexander	473
27	Benjamin	466
28	Steven	453
29	Adam	445
30	Stephen	442
31	Sean	428
32	Richard	420
33	Kyle	400
34	Mark	394
35	Paul	365
36	Peter	343
37	Scott	335
38	Gregory	331
39	Derek	293
40	Zachary	289
41	Brandon	261
42	Samuel	254
43	Nathan	236
44	Jeremy	227
45	Charles	216
46	Brendan	204
47	Shawn	203
48	Bryan	198
49	Edward	192
50	Corey	186
51	Jacob	175
52	Tyler	173
53	Kenneth	168
54	Evan	167
55	Jesse	166
56	Aaron	161
57	Keith	160
58	Jared	159
59	Jose	155
60	Ian	144
61	Shane	140
62	Alex	138
63	Craig	136
64	Douglas	122
65	Cory	117
66	Philip	113
67	Brett	112
68	Nathaniel	109
69	Dennis	106
70	George	100
71	Marc	98
72	Jordan	97
73	Raymond	95
74	Luis	87
74	Mathew	87
76	Colin	86
77	Carlos	83
77	Erik	83
79	Travis	81
80	Christian	80
80	Joel	80
82	Gary	79
83	Frank	71
84	Donald	68
84	Ronald	68
86	Chad	67
87	Shaun	66
88	Phillip	65
89	Luke	64
90	Vincent	63
91	Casey	60
92	Devin	58
93	Antonio	57
93	Seth	57
95	Francis	56
96	Russell	55
96	Victor	55
98	Dustin	54
98	Geoffrey	54
98	Henry	54
98	Juan	54