Popular baby names in New Jersey
In 2025, New Jersey's top baby names were Emma for girls and Liam for boys. Below: this year's top 20, the names New Jersey likes far more than the rest of the country, the number-one names decade by decade, and every year's list back to 1910.
Top 20 names in New Jersey, 2025
Names New Jersey likes more than the rest of the country
New Jersey favorites
Among the state's 100 most-given names in 2021–2025 and at least twice as common there as in the rest of the US.
- Yaakov (boys): #92 in New Jersey, 37.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Shmuel (boys): #93 in New Jersey, 33.3× the rest-of-US rate
- Yehuda (boys): #62 in New Jersey, 30.3× the rest-of-US rate
- Malka (girls): #77 in New Jersey, 25.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Rivka (girls): #48 in New Jersey, 23.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Chana (girls): #54 in New Jersey, 20.1× the rest-of-US rate
- Chaim (boys): #66 in New Jersey, 19.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Yosef (boys): #69 in New Jersey, 17.7× the rest-of-US rate
- Chaya (girls): #49 in New Jersey, 16.5× the rest-of-US rate
- Moshe (boys): #48 in New Jersey, 15.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Miriam (girls): #32 in New Jersey, 7.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Rachel (girls): #44 in New Jersey, 5.8× the rest-of-US rate
Signature names, rare elsewhere
Given to at least 50 babies in the state in 2021–2025, at least three times as common there as in the rest of the US, and rare nationally (under 200 babies per million).
- Avrohom (boys): 318 babies in 2021–2025, 72.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Shulamis (girls): 65 babies in 2021–2025, 71.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Leeba (girls): 104 babies in 2021–2025, 62.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Ahron (boys): 161 babies in 2021–2025, 50× the rest-of-US rate
- Yehudis (girls): 298 babies in 2021–2025, 49.4× the rest-of-US rate
- Rochel (girls): 316 babies in 2021–2025, 48.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Dovid (boys): 414 babies in 2021–2025, 47.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Yechezkel (boys): 71 babies in 2021–2025, 47.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Binyomin (boys): 150 babies in 2021–2025, 46.2× the rest-of-US rate
- Batsheva (girls): 213 babies in 2021–2025, 40.9× the rest-of-US rate
- Nechama (girls): 315 babies in 2021–2025, 40.6× the rest-of-US rate
- Ahuva (girls): 206 babies in 2021–2025, 38.9× the rest-of-US rate
Number-one baby names in New Jersey by decade
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