Most popular boys’ names in Massachusetts, 1989

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	2,257
2	Christopher	1,613
3	Matthew	1,502
4	Daniel	1,184
5	Andrew	1,071
6	Nicholas	1,055
7	John	996
8	Joseph	972
9	David	940
10	Ryan	926
11	Joshua	891
12	James	876
13	Robert	818
14	Jonathan	727
15	Kevin	702
16	Brian	652
17	Justin	650
18	Timothy	628
19	William	604
20	Anthony	594
21	Thomas	589
22	Alexander	559
23	Patrick	542
24	Kyle	520
25	Eric	519

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Sean	506
27	Jeffrey	492
28	Steven	489
29	Benjamin	480
30	Stephen	447
31	Adam	423
32	Zachary	402
33	Richard	400
34	Mark	388
35	Jason	365
36	Paul	344
37	Scott	311
38	Peter	307
39	Gregory	301
40	Derek	286
41	Samuel	274
42	Tyler	272
43	Jacob	261
44	Brandon	259
45	Corey	243
46	Brendan	239
47	Jeremy	224
48	Charles	219
49	Evan	216
50	Nathan	213
51	Jared	203
52	Bryan	199
53	Aaron	197
54	Jose	192
55	Shawn	186
56	Kenneth	184
57	Jesse	181
58	Edward	176
59	Keith	173
60	Ian	162
61	Alex	156
62	Luis	151
63	Jordan	148
64	George	146
65	Shane	129
66	Brett	122
67	Nathaniel	119
68	Craig	117
69	Douglas	112
69	Philip	112
71	Colin	111
71	Cory	111
73	Travis	110
74	Christian	102
75	Raymond	96
76	Marc	93
77	Cameron	91
78	Dennis	87
79	Juan	85
80	Carlos	84
81	Trevor	82
82	Donald	81
83	Erik	80
84	Vincent	78
85	Dylan	77
85	Ethan	77
85	Lucas	77
88	Ronald	75
89	Seth	72
90	Max	71
90	Taylor	71
92	Devin	70
92	Luke	70
94	Ross	69
95	Garrett	68
96	Angel	67
97	Edwin	65
98	Henry	64
99	Connor	62
99	Francis	62
99	Maxwell	62