Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1988

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,056
2	Matthew	1,517
3	Christopher	1,474
4	Daniel	1,106
5	Andrew	1,019
6	David	970
7	Nicholas	946
8	John	922
9	Joseph	915
10	Ryan	875
11	James	857
12	Joshua	835
13	Robert	804
14	Jonathan	717
15	Brian	682
16	Justin	655
17	Kevin	647
18	William	634
19	Thomas	615
20	Anthony	598
21	Timothy	561
22	Eric	520
23	Benjamin	498
24	Jeffrey	494
25	Alexander	492

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Patrick	483
27	Kyle	475
28	Sean	464
29	Stephen	453
30	Jason	450
31	Adam	422
32	Steven	421
33	Richard	397
34	Mark	385
35	Paul	360
36	Gregory	333
37	Zachary	329
38	Peter	325
39	Scott	316
40	Samuel	290
41	Derek	275
42	Brandon	274
43	Jeremy	251
44	Nathan	232
45	Corey	214
46	Aaron	211
47	Tyler	209
48	Bryan	205
49	Brendan	204
49	Charles	204
51	Jacob	201
52	Edward	183
53	Alex	171
54	Jared	170
54	Shawn	170
56	Keith	165
56	Kenneth	165
58	Jose	163
59	Ian	153
60	Evan	152
61	Jesse	141
62	Craig	139
63	Philip	138
64	Travis	133
65	Shane	128
66	Luis	123
67	Douglas	117
68	Brett	112
68	Cory	112
70	George	109
71	Colin	108
72	Jordan	99
72	Nathaniel	99
74	Mathew	95
75	Erik	91
76	Raymond	88
77	Joel	83
78	Seth	81
79	Chad	80
80	Dennis	79
81	Marc	76
82	Christian	75
83	Donald	74
83	Frank	74
85	Carlos	73
86	Taylor	72
87	Trevor	71
88	Gary	70
89	Cameron	69
89	Juan	69
91	Devin	67
92	Dylan	66
92	Luke	66
94	Max	65
95	Victor	63
96	Angel	62
97	Ross	61
97	Vincent	61
99	Alan	60
99	Casey	60
99	Shaun	60