Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1919

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,769
2	Helen	1,520
3	Dorothy	1,129
4	Ruth	969
5	Margaret	907
6	Rita	782
7	Elizabeth	654
8	Alice	613
9	Anna	596
10	Eleanor	574
11	Frances	517
12	Virginia	507
13	Evelyn	501
14	Doris	497
15	Florence	492
16	Catherine	480
17	Barbara	474
18	Rose	472
19	Lillian	453
20	Mildred	441
21	Irene	424
22	Josephine	410
23	Marion	402
24	Gertrude	395
25	Marie	373
26	Louise	342
27	Marjorie	329
28	Phyllis	326
29	Edith	300
30	Beatrice	296
31	Grace	283
32	Pauline	241
33	Anne	239
34	Esther	214
34	Jennie	214
36	Agnes	213
36	Edna	213
38	Ann	210
39	Gladys	206
40	Jean	204
41	Ethel	202
42	Sophie	199
43	Stella	197
44	Eileen	185
44	Katherine	185
46	Charlotte	181
47	Shirley	172
48	Marguerite	166
49	Eva	165
50	Lorraine	163

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,406
2	Joseph	1,581
3	William	1,389
4	Robert	1,245
5	George	1,071
6	Edward	1,069
7	James	1,035
8	Charles	857
9	Frank	641
10	Arthur	605
11	Walter	599
12	Francis	588
13	Thomas	574
14	Richard	566
15	Albert	491
16	Paul	474
17	Raymond	438
18	Henry	416
19	Alfred	375
20	Harold	368
21	Stanley	350
22	Anthony	345
23	Louis	313
24	Donald	299
25	Ralph	296
26	Ernest	260
27	Frederick	251
28	David	250
29	Leo	246
30	Michael	236
31	Peter	231
32	Harry	206
33	Manuel	192
34	Herbert	191
35	Bernard	190
36	Philip	186
37	Norman	185
38	Daniel	181
39	Lawrence	180
40	Chester	173
41	Theodore	171
42	Kenneth	168
43	Howard	164
44	Russell	163
45	Eugene	157
46	Samuel	153
47	Vincent	146
48	Roland	143
49	Fred	140
49	Leonard	140