Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1912

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,636
2	Helen	829
3	Dorothy	647
4	Margaret	597
5	Alice	423
6	Ruth	421
7	Anna	368
8	Elizabeth	359
9	Rose	322
10	Catherine	303
11	Lillian	300
12	Mildred	284
13	Frances	259
14	Evelyn	256
15	Florence	253
16	Eleanor	251
17	Doris	232
18	Gertrude	228
19	Marion	226
20	Josephine	211
20	Marie	211
22	Irene	204
23	Louise	174
24	Esther	172
25	Anne	171
26	Grace	165
27	Edith	161
28	Beatrice	157
29	Ethel	156
30	Marjorie	151
31	Barbara	142
32	Agnes	134
32	Katherine	134
34	Gladys	127
35	Edna	122
36	Julia	118
37	Ann	115
37	Virginia	115
39	Bertha	114
40	Stella	103
41	Eva	101
42	Jennie	96
43	Hazel	93
44	Blanche	88
44	Pauline	88
46	Ida	86
47	Marguerite	82
47	Sophie	82
49	Charlotte	78
50	Emma	77

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	1,276
2	Joseph	877
3	William	796
4	James	597
5	George	533
6	Edward	503
7	Charles	500
8	Robert	403
9	Frank	354
10	Thomas	341
11	Francis	335
12	Arthur	294
13	Walter	260
14	Henry	241
15	Albert	222
16	Harold	205
16	Paul	205
18	Richard	192
19	Alfred	189
19	Raymond	189
21	Anthony	188
22	Louis	178
23	Frederick	146
24	Harry	145
25	Ralph	135
26	David	134
27	Michael	133
27	Stanley	133
29	Ernest	128
30	Samuel	124
31	Donald	120
31	Peter	120
33	Leo	115
34	Herbert	111
35	Lawrence	108
36	Daniel	106
37	Philip	94
38	Kenneth	93
39	Howard	87
40	Carl	81
41	Manuel	80
41	Vincent	80
43	Bernard	79
44	Theodore	76
45	Chester	73
45	Eugene	73
45	Fred	73
45	Norman	73
49	Andrew	72
50	Stephen	69