Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1936

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,430
2	Barbara	1,240
3	Joan	1,087
4	Patricia	1,034
5	Carol	682
6	Nancy	667
7	Dorothy	542
8	Shirley	536
9	Margaret	489
10	Ann	467
11	Jean	449
12	Marilyn	422
13	Elizabeth	413
14	Beverly	381
15	Marie	356
16	Helen	348
17	Janet	339
18	Judith	338
19	Elaine	306
20	Eleanor	300
21	Lorraine	296
22	Ruth	280
23	Anne	269
24	Virginia	266
25	Jane	264
26	Phyllis	255
27	Janice	246
28	Claire	241
29	Joanne	236
30	Pauline	232
31	Doris	228
32	Frances	221
33	Sandra	219
34	Alice	217
35	Theresa	216
36	Catherine	214
37	Joyce	209
38	Carole	207
39	Rita	203
40	Irene	197
41	Marjorie	196
42	Carolyn	187
43	Betty	184
43	Louise	184
45	Dolores	172
46	Evelyn	168
47	Jacqueline	167
48	Constance	166
48	Rose	166
50	Maureen	163

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,600
2	John	2,157
3	Richard	1,771
4	William	1,396
5	James	1,119
6	Joseph	974
7	Donald	973
8	Paul	833
9	Edward	792
10	David	752
11	George	715
12	Thomas	627
13	Charles	598
14	Ronald	511
15	Francis	461
16	Raymond	406
17	Arthur	385
18	Peter	333
19	Kenneth	324
20	Walter	295
21	Frank	293
22	Anthony	265
23	Gerald	258
24	Michael	257
25	Albert	246
26	Roger	241
27	Daniel	236
28	Lawrence	228
29	Frederick	221
30	Philip	208
31	Henry	196
32	Ralph	191
33	Norman	183
34	Alfred	162
35	Harold	160
36	Leo	159
37	Ernest	152
38	Leonard	146
39	Louis	145
40	Bruce	138
41	Eugene	137
41	Stephen	137
43	Carl	127
44	Bernard	117
45	Alan	116
46	Fred	111
47	Russell	102
48	Roland	101
48	Stanley	101
50	Herbert	99