Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1913

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,874
2	Helen	940
3	Dorothy	683
4	Margaret	637
5	Ruth	512
6	Alice	498
7	Elizabeth	451
8	Anna	439
9	Catherine	346
9	Rose	346
11	Eleanor	324
12	Lillian	318
13	Mildred	281
14	Marion	276
15	Evelyn	270
15	Josephine	270
17	Florence	262
18	Gertrude	248
19	Frances	246
20	Irene	238
21	Doris	236
22	Marie	217
23	Edith	207
24	Louise	202
25	Grace	196
26	Esther	188
27	Rita	186
28	Anne	181
28	Barbara	181
30	Agnes	174
31	Beatrice	171
31	Katherine	171
33	Marjorie	168
34	Virginia	163
35	Ethel	162
36	Edna	139
37	Gladys	133
38	Jennie	125
39	Phyllis	123
40	Bertha	121
40	Stella	121
42	Ann	113
43	Hazel	108
44	Eva	106
45	Julia	105
46	Ida	99
46	Marguerite	99
48	Elsie	96
49	Sophie	94
50	Blanche	91

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	1,480
2	Joseph	987
3	William	880
4	James	666
5	George	634
6	Charles	562
7	Edward	555
8	Robert	492
9	Francis	368
10	Thomas	361
11	Arthur	344
12	Frank	340
13	Walter	325
14	Albert	285
15	Henry	276
16	Richard	240
17	Harold	224
18	Paul	217
19	Raymond	212
20	Alfred	211
20	Stanley	211
22	Anthony	195
23	Louis	194
24	Frederick	189
25	Harry	167
26	Michael	163
27	Ernest	162
28	Leo	160
29	David	150
30	Ralph	149
31	Donald	144
32	Philip	141
33	Peter	129
34	Herbert	128
35	Daniel	126
36	Lawrence	123
37	Samuel	119
38	Manuel	112
39	Bernard	98
40	Howard	95
41	Carl	94
42	Chester	93
43	Kenneth	92
43	Norman	92
43	Vincent	92
46	Theodore	80
47	Russell	79
48	Leonard	76
49	Benjamin	75
50	Roland	74