Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1938

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,275
2	Barbara	1,206
3	Patricia	1,098
4	Carol	1,005
5	Joan	848
6	Nancy	717
7	Judith	607
8	Margaret	533
9	Dorothy	499
10	Ann	486
11	Elizabeth	480
12	Sandra	428
13	Beverly	423
14	Jean	404
15	Marilyn	369
16	Janet	351
17	Elaine	342
18	Shirley	341
19	Helen	338
20	Joyce	335
21	Marie	330
22	Janice	327
23	Eleanor	292
24	Anne	268
25	Joanne	265
26	Ruth	264
27	Frances	262
28	Virginia	261
29	Jane	259
30	Lorraine	249
31	Carole	245
32	Claire	229
32	Phyllis	229
34	Theresa	224
35	Pauline	221
36	Gail	219
37	Carolyn	215
38	Rita	196
39	Alice	194
40	Doris	184
41	Kathleen	182
41	Marjorie	182
43	Jacqueline	179
44	Maureen	178
44	Sally	178
46	Sheila	176
47	Catherine	175
48	Louise	170
49	Betty	169
50	Evelyn	158

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,748
2	John	2,201
3	Richard	1,788
4	William	1,380
5	James	1,190
6	David	1,017
7	Joseph	947
8	Paul	929
9	Edward	739
10	Thomas	731
11	Donald	719
12	George	708
13	Charles	676
14	Ronald	598
15	Francis	442
16	Arthur	404
17	Peter	382
18	Kenneth	379
19	Raymond	339
20	Frank	302
21	Anthony	294
22	Michael	286
23	Gerald	274
23	Walter	274
25	Roger	264
26	Albert	235
27	Lawrence	228
28	Daniel	227
29	Stephen	220
30	Frederick	214
31	Philip	207
32	Henry	201
33	Norman	191
34	Ralph	185
35	Alfred	170
36	Bruce	164
37	Louis	160
38	Ernest	148
39	Harold	142
40	Leonard	141
41	Leo	135
42	Eugene	134
43	Carl	132
44	Stanley	127
45	Alan	125
46	Bernard	112
47	Fred	110
48	Russell	109
49	Herbert	105
50	Gordon	95