Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1924

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,746
2	Dorothy	1,326
3	Helen	1,231
4	Barbara	958
5	Ruth	923
6	Margaret	897
7	Rita	744
8	Doris	675
9	Elizabeth	661
10	Eleanor	652
11	Virginia	650
12	Alice	627
13	Irene	562
14	Shirley	527
15	Frances	504
16	Phyllis	489
17	Anna	484
18	Evelyn	474
18	Marie	474
20	Lillian	455
21	Marion	449
22	Rose	443
23	Florence	426
24	Catherine	425
25	Marjorie	416
26	Mildred	394
27	Jean	368
28	Josephine	349
29	Claire	339
30	Louise	332
31	Grace	315
32	Gloria	311
33	Theresa	296
34	Patricia	288
35	Lorraine	284
36	Ann	273
37	Pauline	264
38	Gertrude	263
39	Anne	245
40	Beatrice	242
41	Eileen	239
42	Edith	236
43	Betty	206
44	Agnes	203
45	Jane	201
46	Nancy	198
47	Priscilla	193
48	June	191
49	Marguerite	184
50	Norma	178

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,809
2	Robert	2,247
3	William	1,812
4	Joseph	1,658
5	James	1,288
6	Edward	1,279
7	George	1,208
8	Richard	1,004
9	Charles	981
10	Francis	739
11	Thomas	695
12	Arthur	658
13	Paul	639
14	Donald	631
15	Raymond	614
16	Walter	601
17	Frank	588
18	Henry	504
19	Albert	502
20	Harold	431
21	Alfred	396
22	Anthony	390
23	David	353
24	Kenneth	327
25	Leo	320
26	Ralph	310
27	Louis	298
28	Norman	297
29	Stanley	289
30	Frederick	270
31	Peter	266
32	Lawrence	263
33	Daniel	262
34	Philip	257
35	Ernest	252
36	Michael	234
37	Roland	225
38	Bernard	214
39	Harry	212
40	Roger	209
41	Herbert	205
42	Leonard	197
43	Eugene	182
44	Russell	162
45	Fred	161
45	Vincent	161
47	Warren	158
48	Howard	152
49	Gerald	147
50	Edmund	146