Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1911

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1911 were Mary for girls (733 babies) and John for boys (530). Social Security records list 15,556 babies born in New Jersey in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1911

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

Angelina: 45 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Carmela: 19 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Adelaide: 19 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Antoinette: 31 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Sophie: 48 babies, 3× the national rate
Teresa: 20 babies, 3× the national rate
Anne: 110 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Claire: 22 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Jean: 88 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Matilda: 20 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Boys

Dominick: 16 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Salvatore: 21 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Stephen: 48 babies, 4× the national rate
Nicholas: 29 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Anthony: 111 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Adam: 16 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Vincent: 38 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Alexander: 31 babies, 3× the national rate
Emil: 15 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Michael: 80 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	733	–	1
2	Helen	523	–	2
3	Anna	409	–	6
4	Margaret	390	–	3
5	Elizabeth	329	–	7
6	Dorothy	299	–	4
7	Rose	238	–	14
8	Ruth	225	–	5
9	Mildred	204	–	8
10	Catherine	203	↑1	20
11	Florence	192	↓1	12
12	Marie	187	–	9
13	Josephine	164	↑3	29
14	Lillian	159	↓1	13
15	Frances	145	–	10
16	Evelyn	131	↑5	16
17	Alice	130	↓3	11
18	Grace	115	↑1	23
19	Ethel	114	↓2	15
20	Anne	110	–	64
21	Edith	99	↑2	31
22	Eleanor	98	↑3	49
23	Louise	97	↑7	19
24	Gertrude	95	↓2	30
25	Edna	93	↓1	17
26	Jean	88	↑7	74
27	Agnes	87	↑5	39
28	Bertha	85	↑15	36
29	Ann	83	↓2	53
30	Irene	83	↓4	21
31	Julia	79	↓3	44
32	Marion	78	↓14	58
33	Emma	77	↑1	35
34	Elsie	71	↑3	41
35	Gladys	67	↑1	18
36	Beatrice	62	↓5	37
37	Betty	62	↑4	69
38	Katherine	62	↑4	55
39	Ida	61	↑5	45
40	Stella	61	new	72
41	Virginia	61	↑6	26
42	Marjorie	57	↑3	59
43	Theresa	56	↓8	100
44	Jennie	55	↓15	85
45	Kathryn	55	new	73
46	Mae	55	↑2	71
47	Esther	54	new	34
48	Martha	54	↓10	28
49	Viola	54	new	47
50	Pauline	52	new	38

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	John	530	–	1
2	Joseph	371	–	6
3	William	350	–	2
4	George	217	↑3	4
5	Charles	201	↑1	7
6	James	200	↓2	3
7	Edward	192	↑1	9
8	Frank	192	↓3	8
9	Robert	159	–	5
10	Thomas	138	↑1	10
11	Walter	126	↑5	12
12	Anthony	111	–	35
13	Henry	95	↑4	11
14	Albert	82	–	15
15	Louis	80	–	21
16	Michael	80	↓6	38
17	Harry	76	↓4	13
18	Arthur	74	↑2	18
19	Harold	69	↓1	16
20	Raymond	62	↑2	19
21	Samuel	61	↑9	30
22	Peter	53	↑7	50
23	Alfred	51	↑2	39
24	Andrew	49	–	42
25	Francis	48	↓4	33
26	Stephen	48	↑1	84
27	Richard	47	↑1	20
28	David	46	↑3	27
29	Frederick	46	↑10	52
30	Stanley	45	↓7	44
31	Paul	43	↓12	17
32	Ralph	43	–	24
33	Lawrence	38	↑16	37
34	Vincent	38	↑2	80
35	Theodore	36	↓2	56
36	Fred	34	↓1	22
37	Norman	33	new	63
38	Bernard	32	new	54
39	Carl	32	new	26
40	Alexander	31	↑7	94
41	Howard	31	↓3	28
42	Martin	30	new	75
43	Nicholas	29	↓17	>100
44	Daniel	28	new	53
45	Donald	28	↑3	36
46	Eugene	28	new	43
47	Herman	28	new	49
48	Victor	28	new	81
49	Benjamin	27	↓12	64
50	Jack	27	↓7	25

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