Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1925

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,504
2	Dorothy	1,181
3	Helen	1,084
4	Barbara	951
5	Ruth	915
6	Margaret	803
7	Rita	638
8	Doris	631
9	Alice	617
10	Elizabeth	599
11	Virginia	575
12	Eleanor	568
13	Irene	540
14	Shirley	510
15	Marie	454
16	Frances	450
16	Theresa	450
18	Jean	441
19	Evelyn	439
20	Gloria	435
21	Rose	424
22	Anna	423
22	Lillian	423
24	Phyllis	415
25	Marion	407
26	Marjorie	404
27	Catherine	397
28	Mildred	376
29	Florence	358
30	Claire	346
31	Pauline	323
32	Louise	313
33	Josephine	306
34	Patricia	297
35	Lorraine	289
36	Ann	269
37	Grace	255
38	June	238
39	Betty	237
40	Jane	224
41	Gertrude	222
42	Eileen	212
43	Nancy	210
44	Beatrice	209
45	Edith	207
46	Anne	205
47	Constance	196
48	Priscilla	184
49	Norma	180
50	Charlotte	172

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,647
2	Robert	2,288
3	William	1,778
4	Joseph	1,656
5	James	1,200
6	George	1,188
7	Edward	1,136
8	Richard	1,059
9	Charles	842
10	Thomas	693
11	Francis	683
12	Donald	675
12	Paul	675
14	Arthur	623
15	Raymond	581
16	Walter	550
17	Frank	537
18	Albert	491
19	Henry	429
20	Harold	376
21	Alfred	357
22	David	344
23	Anthony	343
24	Leo	321
25	Kenneth	297
26	Ralph	292
27	Louis	283
28	Norman	263
29	Ernest	259
30	Frederick	251
31	Daniel	237
32	Philip	228
33	Peter	222
33	Stanley	222
35	Roland	217
36	Michael	209
37	Bernard	203
37	Leonard	203
39	Roger	193
40	Lawrence	188
41	Herbert	180
42	Harry	177
43	Eugene	176
44	Russell	167
45	Vincent	163
46	Gerald	147
47	Fred	145
48	Theodore	142
49	Howard	141
50	Edmund	135