Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in Massachusetts, 1942

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,625
2	Patricia	1,509
3	Carol	1,474
4	Barbara	1,363
5	Judith	1,340
6	Sandra	933
7	Nancy	927
8	Linda	813
9	Joan	801
10	Susan	615
11	Margaret	563
12	Elizabeth	548
13	Ann	529
14	Elaine	506
15	Janet	491
16	Dorothy	485
17	Kathleen	465
18	Beverly	443
19	Diane	441
20	Jean	436
21	Joyce	432
22	Marie	417
23	Carolyn	402
23	Donna	402
25	Marilyn	390
26	Janice	387
27	Joanne	377
28	Maureen	372
29	Gail	364
30	Carole	337
31	Anne	334
31	Virginia	334
33	Helen	313
34	Frances	309
35	Ruth	291
36	Jane	282
37	Lorraine	274
38	Catherine	267
39	Ellen	256
40	Sheila	250
41	Roberta	244
42	Karen	239
42	Shirley	239
44	Claire	233
45	Eleanor	232
46	Geraldine	221
47	Phyllis	213
48	Pauline	211
49	Cynthia	208
50	Alice	203

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,173
2	John	3,019
3	Richard	2,389
4	William	1,987
5	James	1,855
6	David	1,436
7	Joseph	1,258
8	Paul	1,210
9	Thomas	1,098
10	Edward	993
11	Charles	865
12	Ronald	812
13	George	799
14	Michael	740
15	Donald	706
16	Peter	693
17	Kenneth	612
18	Francis	527
19	Stephen	493
20	Raymond	469
21	Arthur	452
22	Daniel	402
23	Frank	396
24	Gerald	363
25	Walter	351
26	Anthony	336
27	Roger	335
28	Philip	331
29	Lawrence	317
30	Dennis	306
31	Albert	302
32	Douglas	272
33	Frederick	266
34	Bruce	259
35	Henry	248
36	Ralph	229
37	Alfred	205
38	Louis	197
39	Alan	195
40	Norman	186
41	Leonard	183
42	Harold	175
43	Wayne	166
44	Carl	160
44	Stanley	160
46	Russell	146
47	Bernard	144
48	Barry	143
48	Ernest	143
50	Leo	141