Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1918

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	3,006
2	Helen	1,588
3	Dorothy	1,192
4	Ruth	1,030
5	Margaret	938
6	Rita	794
7	Alice	687
8	Elizabeth	675
9	Anna	659
10	Eleanor	605
11	Barbara	538
12	Frances	529
13	Evelyn	524
14	Florence	522
15	Doris	520
16	Lillian	514
17	Rose	507
18	Virginia	497
19	Catherine	474
20	Irene	452
21	Josephine	451
22	Marion	438
23	Mildred	435
24	Marie	399
25	Louise	378
26	Gertrude	367
27	Phyllis	338
28	Marjorie	326
29	Beatrice	316
30	Anne	307
30	Edith	307
32	Grace	301
33	Katherine	239
34	Pauline	235
35	Edna	229
35	Jennie	229
37	Agnes	228
38	Esther	224
39	Ann	223
40	Ethel	211
41	Sophie	199
42	Julia	195
43	Stella	186
44	Claire	181
45	Gladys	175
46	Lorraine	174
47	Jean	171
48	Marguerite	168
49	Bertha	167
50	Charlotte	157

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,657
2	Joseph	1,787
3	William	1,587
4	Robert	1,302
5	James	1,137
6	George	1,088
7	Edward	1,060
8	Charles	965
9	Frank	654
10	Francis	639
11	Arthur	625
12	Walter	603
13	Richard	591
14	Thomas	590
15	Henry	492
16	Albert	478
17	Paul	445
18	Raymond	444
19	Anthony	371
20	Alfred	369
21	Louis	356
22	Stanley	349
23	Harold	336
24	Frederick	331
25	Ralph	322
26	Donald	315
27	Leo	291
28	Peter	265
29	Ernest	262
30	David	248
31	Michael	247
32	Philip	234
33	Harry	224
34	Norman	222
35	Daniel	218
36	Lawrence	211
37	Herbert	204
38	Kenneth	198
39	Manuel	194
40	Bernard	188
41	Chester	172
42	Russell	169
43	Victor	155
44	Theodore	153
45	Fred	146
45	Howard	146
47	Leonard	143
47	Stephen	143
49	Vincent	139
50	Carl	136