Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1927

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,261
2	Dorothy	1,199
3	Barbara	1,170
4	Helen	863
5	Ruth	789
6	Margaret	723
7	Theresa	660
8	Doris	627
9	Shirley	597
10	Elizabeth	586
11	Jean	573
12	Rita	555
13	Eleanor	536
14	Virginia	508
15	Marie	493
16	Phyllis	490
17	Irene	488
18	Alice	482
19	Lorraine	478
20	Claire	443
21	Patricia	417
22	Marjorie	415
23	Anna	407
24	Evelyn	394
25	Frances	393
26	Rose	367
27	Lillian	346
28	Catherine	341
29	Gloria	339
30	Pauline	328
31	Marion	327
32	Florence	322
33	Mildred	308
34	Louise	295
34	Marilyn	295
36	Ann	265
37	Betty	259
38	Joan	242
39	Anne	233
40	Nancy	230
41	Josephine	226
42	June	214
43	Grace	208
43	Jeanne	208
45	Norma	207
46	Jane	205
47	Eileen	204
48	Elaine	196
49	Lois	183
50	Priscilla	179

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,653
2	Robert	2,485
3	William	1,747
4	Joseph	1,451
5	Richard	1,324
6	James	1,247
7	Edward	1,153
8	George	1,078
9	Charles	921
10	Donald	853
11	Francis	733
12	Thomas	686
13	Paul	663
14	Arthur	610
15	Raymond	560
16	Frank	512
17	Walter	472
18	Albert	464
19	David	398
20	Henry	386
21	Alfred	372
22	Anthony	336
23	Harold	319
24	Leo	302
25	Kenneth	298
26	Ralph	293
27	Norman	286
28	Louis	284
29	Frederick	253
30	Lawrence	245
31	Roger	233
32	Eugene	229
33	Ernest	227
34	Daniel	226
35	Stanley	213
36	Peter	208
37	Leonard	194
38	Philip	189
39	Herbert	186
40	Roland	185
41	Bernard	183
42	Harry	175
43	Michael	173
44	Gerald	167
45	Russell	157
46	Fred	149
47	Vincent	140
48	Howard	139
48	Warren	139
50	Carl	135