Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,818
2	Helen	1,537
3	Dorothy	1,157
4	Ruth	991
5	Margaret	947
6	Rita	768
7	Elizabeth	673
8	Alice	665
9	Anna	657
10	Eleanor	585
11	Rose	540
12	Frances	519
13	Evelyn	493
14	Lillian	490
15	Marion	482
16	Doris	475
17	Catherine	472
18	Florence	452
19	Mildred	451
20	Virginia	450
21	Josephine	424
22	Irene	421
23	Barbara	402
24	Louise	386
25	Gertrude	370
26	Marie	354
27	Marjorie	335
28	Edith	316
29	Grace	298
30	Beatrice	280
31	Phyllis	258
32	Anne	254
32	Esther	254
34	Ethel	230
35	Edna	227
36	Ann	226
37	Agnes	223
38	Jennie	222
39	Pauline	221
40	Stella	216
41	Gladys	203
42	Katherine	201
43	Jean	197
44	Sophie	192
45	Julia	185
46	Bertha	180
47	Marguerite	170
48	Jeannette	166
49	Eileen	161
50	Eva	154

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,471
2	Joseph	1,590
3	William	1,519
4	Robert	1,162
5	George	1,035
6	James	996
7	Edward	994
8	Charles	917
9	Frank	679
10	Francis	631
11	Arthur	599
12	Walter	592
13	Albert	544
14	Thomas	531
15	Richard	497
16	Henry	443
17	Paul	420
18	Raymond	413
19	Harold	402
20	Anthony	367
21	Stanley	352
22	Louis	324
23	Alfred	308
24	Donald	304
25	Ralph	300
26	Frederick	280
27	Michael	251
28	Ernest	237
29	Peter	229
30	Leo	225
31	Harry	221
32	David	215
33	Norman	207
34	Philip	204
35	Bernard	188
36	Daniel	187
37	Samuel	184
38	Herbert	181
39	Lawrence	180
40	Kenneth	177
41	Vincent	175
42	Chester	172
43	Manuel	167
44	Howard	147
45	Russell	134
46	Fred	133
47	Roland	130
48	Leonard	128
49	Carl	127
49	Stephen	127