Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1910

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1910 were Mary for girls (593 babies) and John for boys (358). Social Security records list 12,317 babies born in New Jersey in 1910 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1910

Names given at least 15 times in New Jersey that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Natalie: 15 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Antoinette: 29 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Angela: 24 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Angelina: 21 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Sophie: 48 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Anne: 94 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Theresa: 63 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Adele: 19 babies, 3× the national rate
Jennie: 76 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Veronica: 19 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Boys

Dominick: 19 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Nicholas: 33 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Angelo: 16 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Stephen: 33 babies, 5× the national rate
Michael: 77 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Anthony: 76 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Vincent: 24 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Alexander: 18 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Irving: 15 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Philip: 21 babies, 2.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1910

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	Mary	593	1
2	Helen	438	2
3	Anna	355	6
4	Margaret	311	3
5	Elizabeth	260	7
6	Dorothy	255	4
7	Rose	201	16
8	Ruth	188	5
9	Mildred	174	8
10	Florence	169	12
11	Catherine	158	22
12	Marie	152	9
13	Lillian	130	14
14	Alice	125	10
15	Frances	124	11
16	Josephine	103	30
17	Ethel	101	13
18	Marion	100	59
19	Grace	95	23
20	Anne	94	67
21	Evelyn	89	17
22	Gertrude	87	26
23	Edith	86	35
24	Edna	84	18
25	Eleanor	83	55
26	Irene	83	21
27	Ann	82	52
28	Julia	82	49
29	Jennie	76	81
30	Louise	75	20
31	Beatrice	72	36
32	Agnes	69	41
33	Jean	68	77
34	Emma	66	34
35	Theresa	63	96
36	Gladys	62	15
37	Elsie	60	44
38	Martha	56	28
39	Sarah	56	40
40	Clara	55	32
41	Betty	53	69
42	Katherine	53	57
43	Bertha	52	33
44	Ida	50	47
45	Marjorie	50	68
46	Sophie	48	>100
47	Virginia	46	29
48	Mae	45	65
49	Hazel	44	24
50	Emily	43	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	US rank
1	John	358	1
2	Joseph	244	6
3	William	222	3
4	James	171	2
5	Frank	142	8
6	Charles	139	7
7	George	133	5
8	Edward	125	9
9	Robert	89	4
10	Michael	77	45
11	Thomas	77	12
12	Anthony	76	37
13	Harry	67	16
14	Albert	65	14
15	Louis	62	24
16	Walter	57	13
17	Henry	56	10
18	Harold	55	18
19	Paul	55	15
20	Arthur	42	17
21	Francis	41	36
22	Raymond	41	19
23	Stanley	38	47
24	Andrew	36	42
25	Alfred	35	38
26	Nicholas	33	>100
27	Stephen	33	96
28	Richard	32	21
29	Peter	31	56
30	Samuel	31	32
31	David	29	30
32	Ralph	27	28
33	Theodore	27	54
34	Clarence	24	20
35	Fred	24	22
36	Vincent	24	99
37	Benjamin	23	70
38	Howard	23	27
39	Frederick	22	69
40	Russell	22	58
41	Philip	21	83
42	Herbert	20	41
43	Jack	20	23
44	Dominick	19	>100
45	Kenneth	19	43
46	Milton	19	76
47	Alexander	18	>100
48	Donald	18	44
49	Lawrence	18	35
50	Chester	17	61

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