Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1937

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,364
2	Barbara	1,187
3	Patricia	1,136
4	Joan	932
5	Carol	787
6	Nancy	717
7	Margaret	510
8	Dorothy	493
9	Beverly	483
10	Ann	465
11	Elizabeth	442
12	Judith	438
13	Jean	430
14	Shirley	396
15	Marilyn	379
16	Marie	371
17	Helen	341
18	Janet	327
19	Sandra	301
20	Eleanor	298
21	Virginia	292
22	Elaine	289
23	Frances	284
24	Lorraine	282
25	Ruth	280
26	Anne	279
27	Janice	274
28	Rita	233
29	Joanne	230
30	Carole	228
30	Joyce	228
32	Claire	226
33	Alice	225
34	Jane	215
35	Phyllis	214
36	Theresa	213
37	Pauline	205
38	Catherine	202
39	Carolyn	197
40	Marjorie	180
41	Roberta	175
42	Geraldine	174
42	Maureen	174
44	Jacqueline	172
44	Louise	172
46	Irene	169
47	Gail	161
48	Doris	157
49	Eileen	155
50	Constance	154

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,790
2	John	2,102
3	Richard	1,721
4	William	1,406
5	James	1,185
6	David	959
7	Joseph	949
8	Paul	889
9	Donald	876
10	Edward	789
11	George	721
12	Charles	709
13	Thomas	702
14	Ronald	582
15	Francis	441
16	Raymond	385
17	Peter	365
18	Arthur	354
18	Kenneth	354
20	Frank	298
21	Anthony	266
22	Gerald	249
23	Michael	248
24	Lawrence	245
25	Walter	241
26	Daniel	236
27	Frederick	232
28	Albert	227
29	Henry	224
30	Roger	222
31	Philip	192
32	Norman	189
33	Ralph	182
34	Alfred	166
35	Stephen	163
36	Louis	159
37	Harold	158
38	Bruce	145
39	Leo	136
40	Ernest	131
41	Eugene	125
42	Bernard	123
42	Leonard	123
44	Carl	120
45	Russell	119
46	Stanley	116
47	Herbert	110
48	Alan	108
49	Fred	107
50	Vincent	101