Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1941

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Patricia	1,440
2	Mary	1,439
3	Judith	1,173
4	Barbara	1,115
5	Carol	1,076
6	Nancy	769
7	Joan	746
8	Sandra	701
9	Margaret	568
10	Ann	517
11	Linda	496
12	Elizabeth	459
13	Dorothy	431
14	Susan	420
15	Janet	418
16	Jean	413
17	Beverly	396
18	Joyce	394
19	Elaine	393
20	Marie	383
21	Janice	360
22	Kathleen	326
23	Marilyn	309
24	Virginia	308
25	Carolyn	303
26	Jane	301
27	Joanne	298
28	Diane	289
29	Helen	286
30	Anne	283
31	Gail	269
32	Ruth	265
33	Frances	259
34	Donna	241
35	Carole	240
36	Lorraine	236
37	Maureen	233
38	Phyllis	224
39	Alice	221
40	Shirley	220
41	Pauline	217
42	Catherine	211
43	Claire	205
44	Sheila	204
45	Ellen	203
46	Eleanor	199
47	Cynthia	189
48	Louise	188
49	Roberta	186
50	Jacqueline	185

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,682
2	John	2,538
3	Richard	2,151
4	William	1,675
5	James	1,393
6	David	1,241
7	Paul	1,121
8	Joseph	1,077
9	Thomas	948
10	Edward	850
11	Ronald	778
12	George	739
13	Charles	733
14	Donald	657
15	Peter	590
16	Michael	521
17	Kenneth	519
18	Francis	443
19	Raymond	389
20	Arthur	370
21	Daniel	347
22	Stephen	334
23	Frank	331
24	Gerald	314
25	Roger	299
26	Walter	287
27	Anthony	284
28	Lawrence	276
29	Bruce	263
30	Philip	259
31	Albert	248
32	Henry	208
33	Frederick	202
34	Norman	191
35	Ralph	171
36	Dennis	170
37	Alfred	164
38	Alan	162
39	Carl	156
40	Louis	154
41	Harold	151
42	Leonard	150
43	Stanley	134
44	Leo	132
45	Barry	127
45	Wayne	127
47	Bernard	119
48	Douglas	116
48	Ernest	116
50	Eugene	112