Most popular boys’ names in Michigan, 1955

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Michael	4,792
2	David	4,596
3	Robert	4,024
4	James	3,866
5	John	3,624
6	Mark	2,846
7	Thomas	2,694
8	William	2,620
9	Richard	2,583
10	Steven	2,065
11	Gary	1,948
12	Daniel	1,768
13	Kenneth	1,516
14	Donald	1,459
15	Ronald	1,444
16	Timothy	1,436
17	Dennis	1,423
18	Paul	1,422
19	Charles	1,400
20	Joseph	1,370
21	Gregory	1,316
22	Jeffrey	1,125
23	Douglas	1,068
24	Kevin	1,012
25	Larry	1,011

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Randy	932
27	Stephen	880
28	Terry	836
29	Edward	830
30	Brian	749
31	Bruce	704
32	Keith	703
33	Patrick	664
34	George	663
35	Gerald	612
36	Scott	596
37	Anthony	588
38	Roger	541
39	Dale	534
40	Lawrence	514
41	Raymond	501
42	Craig	463
43	Jerry	460
44	Alan	447
45	Frank	436
46	Peter	427
47	Christopher	424
48	Carl	370
49	Jack	360
50	Kim	356
50	Rodney	356
52	Randall	355
53	Jeffery	354
54	Wayne	333
55	Ricky	323
56	Russell	316
57	Martin	309
58	Frederick	301
59	Danny	297
60	Walter	288
61	Glenn	287
62	Philip	282
63	Arthur	268
64	Steve	267
65	Eric	259
66	Rick	255
67	Phillip	254
68	Micheal	252
69	Harold	245
70	Allen	240
71	Andrew	236
72	Matthew	222
72	Stanley	222
74	Ralph	221
74	Roy	221
76	Henry	213
77	Duane	206
78	Eugene	200
79	Leonard	199
80	Curtis	197
81	Barry	193
81	Dean	193
83	Howard	187
83	Jerome	187
83	Norman	187
86	Jon	176
87	Gordon	175
88	Theodore	173
89	Fred	169
89	Louis	169
91	Albert	167
91	Dan	167
91	Kurt	167
94	Bradley	163
94	Samuel	163
96	Darrell	161
97	Lee	157
98	Marvin	156
99	Chris	154
100	Ernest	149
100	Willie	149