Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1940

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,322
2	Patricia	1,229
3	Barbara	1,139
4	Judith	1,109
5	Carol	1,009
6	Joan	746
7	Nancy	726
8	Sandra	704
9	Margaret	516
10	Ann	489
11	Elizabeth	440
12	Janet	429
13	Jean	428
14	Dorothy	417
15	Linda	365
16	Joyce	360
17	Beverly	350
18	Janice	324
19	Elaine	315
20	Marie	314
21	Joanne	307
22	Susan	296
23	Marilyn	287
24	Anne	279
25	Helen	272
26	Virginia	266
27	Frances	261
28	Kathleen	259
28	Lorraine	259
30	Ruth	255
31	Jane	249
32	Carolyn	242
33	Brenda	239
33	Diane	239
33	Eleanor	239
33	Gail	239
37	Catherine	234
37	Phyllis	234
39	Carole	226
40	Maureen	218
41	Claire	212
41	Ellen	212
43	Alice	200
43	Shirley	200
45	Pauline	193
46	Rita	188
47	Cynthia	183
48	Sheila	178
49	Jacqueline	170
49	Theresa	170

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,640
2	John	2,386
3	Richard	1,980
4	William	1,614
5	James	1,314
6	David	1,162
7	Paul	1,009
8	Joseph	987
9	Thomas	826
10	Edward	776
11	Charles	719
12	George	704
13	Donald	637
13	Ronald	637
15	Peter	502
16	Michael	475
17	Kenneth	413
18	Francis	392
19	Raymond	368
20	Arthur	361
21	Frank	321
22	Gerald	319
23	Walter	291
24	Roger	277
25	Stephen	274
26	Anthony	264
27	Daniel	261
28	Albert	233
29	Philip	224
30	Henry	212
31	Frederick	208
32	Lawrence	207
33	Bruce	199
34	Ralph	184
35	Alfred	180
36	Norman	178
37	Carl	169
38	Alan	156
39	Leonard	154
40	Dennis	149
41	Ernest	142
42	Louis	133
43	Leo	127
44	Stanley	126
45	Eugene	121
46	Russell	120
47	Harold	119
48	Bernard	110
49	Wayne	102
50	Fred	99