Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1923

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,779
2	Helen	1,299
3	Dorothy	1,297
4	Ruth	998
5	Margaret	875
6	Barbara	814
7	Elizabeth	655
8	Rita	652
8	Virginia	652
10	Eleanor	649
11	Doris	648
12	Alice	606
13	Irene	536
14	Anna	490
15	Evelyn	484
16	Marie	467
17	Frances	461
18	Florence	460
19	Marjorie	449
19	Shirley	449
21	Catherine	447
22	Lillian	438
23	Phyllis	432
24	Rose	425
25	Marion	381
26	Mildred	371
27	Louise	369
28	Josephine	364
29	Jean	325
30	Claire	307
31	Pauline	283
32	Gloria	270
33	Grace	249
34	Edith	248
35	Gertrude	241
35	Lorraine	241
37	Anne	240
38	Beatrice	236
39	Eileen	221
40	Theresa	216
41	Ann	215
42	Constance	213
43	Patricia	192
44	Jane	191
45	Agnes	182
46	Norma	181
47	Lucille	179
48	Kathleen	177
49	Esther	175
50	Ethel	172

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,655
2	Robert	1,949
3	William	1,780
4	Joseph	1,738
5	James	1,254
6	Edward	1,244
7	George	1,192
8	Charles	914
9	Richard	865
10	Francis	666
11	Arthur	661
12	Thomas	650
13	Paul	632
14	Frank	588
15	Walter	575
16	Donald	571
17	Raymond	543
18	Albert	527
19	Henry	490
20	Harold	412
21	Alfred	384
22	Anthony	353
23	Leo	329
24	Louis	323
25	David	322
26	Ralph	290
27	Ernest	266
28	Stanley	260
29	Frederick	258
29	Kenneth	258
31	Herbert	257
32	Warren	242
33	Peter	239
34	Norman	232
35	Philip	229
36	Daniel	224
37	Michael	223
38	Lawrence	217
39	Bernard	209
40	Harry	207
41	Leonard	197
42	Roland	193
43	Eugene	181
43	Roger	181
45	Vincent	170
46	Howard	155
47	Russell	153
48	Fred	148
49	Edwin	144
49	Manuel	144