Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1934

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,507
2	Barbara	1,354
3	Joan	1,123
4	Patricia	909
5	Shirley	675
6	Dorothy	639
7	Nancy	573
8	Jean	533
9	Margaret	530
10	Elizabeth	504
11	Ann	483
12	Carol	432
12	Helen	432
14	Janet	391
15	Marilyn	387
16	Lorraine	386
17	Ruth	370
18	Eleanor	330
19	Claire	320
20	Virginia	311
21	Phyllis	304
22	Marie	303
23	Beverly	296
24	Doris	286
25	Theresa	281
26	Frances	271
27	Anne	262
28	Alice	259
29	Pauline	251
30	Jane	249
31	Rita	232
32	Catherine	229
33	Joanne	224
34	Elaine	223
35	Marjorie	214
36	Betty	209
37	Judith	208
38	Constance	206
39	Anna	201
40	Irene	197
41	Gloria	195
42	Carolyn	192
43	Louise	191
44	June	188
45	Jeanne	181
46	Lois	180
46	Rose	180
48	Norma	178
49	Carole	171
50	Dolores	169

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,476
2	John	2,218
3	Richard	1,863
4	William	1,394
5	James	1,236
6	Donald	1,053
7	Joseph	950
8	George	797
9	Edward	792
10	Paul	732
11	Charles	706
12	Thomas	612
13	David	589
14	Francis	484
15	Ronald	466
16	Arthur	404
17	Raymond	357
18	Kenneth	327
19	Peter	312
20	Walter	301
21	Frank	299
22	Albert	263
23	Gerald	242
24	Roger	241
25	Anthony	236
26	Norman	235
27	Philip	233
28	Daniel	229
29	Henry	228
30	Ralph	223
31	Harold	207
32	Lawrence	205
33	Frederick	196
34	Michael	191
35	Alfred	184
35	Louis	184
37	Ernest	183
38	Leo	173
39	Eugene	151
40	Carl	134
41	Bernard	130
42	Leonard	127
43	Herbert	122
43	Russell	122
43	Stanley	122
46	Warren	115
47	Roland	109
48	Fred	105
49	Harry	103
50	Bruce	101