Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1912

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1912 were Mary for girls (1,024 babies) and John for boys (1,020). Social Security records list 25,770 babies born in New Jersey in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1912

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

Filomena: 15 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Angelina: 40 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Tessie: 17 babies, 4× the national rate
Veronica: 50 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Teresa: 29 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Katharine: 22 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Antoinette: 42 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Carmela: 17 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Sophie: 75 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Constance: 29 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 22 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Patsy: 23 babies, 7× the national rate
Dominick: 39 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Meyer: 18 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Nicholas: 77 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Michael: 222 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Stephen: 95 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Gerard: 15 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Salvatore: 35 babies, 3.4× the national rate
August: 32 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	1,024	–	1
2	Helen	722	–	2
3	Anna	532	–	7
4	Margaret	489	–	4
5	Dorothy	444	↑1	3
6	Elizabeth	439	↓1	8
7	Rose	308	–	15
8	Ruth	305	–	5
9	Marie	280	↑3	10
10	Mildred	267	↓1	6
11	Florence	265	–	12
12	Catherine	241	↓2	21
13	Frances	224	↑2	9
14	Lillian	191	–	14
15	Alice	188	↑2	11
16	Eleanor	182	↑6	39
17	Josephine	171	↓4	28
18	Evelyn	154	↓2	13
19	Marion	152	↑13	55
20	Gertrude	146	↑4	30
21	Jean	142	↑5	64
22	Anne	131	↓2	58
23	Grace	128	↓5	24
24	Ann	125	↑5	47
25	Edna	124	–	16
26	Ethel	119	↓7	18
27	Beatrice	117	↑9	37
28	Edith	116	↓7	31
29	Julia	115	↑2	44
30	Louise	106	↓7	17
31	Ida	104	↑8	45
32	Irene	98	↓2	22
33	Agnes	96	↓6	40
34	Jennie	92	↑10	81
35	Katherine	92	↑3	53
36	Theresa	92	↑7	97
37	Emma	90	↓4	35
38	Bertha	85	↓10	36
39	Virginia	83	↑2	20
40	Elsie	81	↓6	42
41	Gladys	81	↓6	19
42	Kathryn	79	↑3	71
43	Betty	77	↓6	66
44	Sarah	76	new	41
45	Sophie	75	new	>100
46	Stella	74	↓6	73
47	Doris	73	new	48
48	Esther	73	↓1	33
49	Hazel	71	new	25
50	Viola	68	↓1	52

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	John	1,020	–	1
2	Joseph	720	–	5
3	William	707	–	2
4	George	466	–	6
5	Charles	453	–	7
6	Edward	378	↑1	8
7	James	377	↓1	3
8	Frank	375	–	9
9	Robert	271	–	4
10	Thomas	265	–	10
11	Walter	252	–	11
12	Anthony	227	–	37
13	Michael	222	↑3	42
14	Albert	200	–	17
15	Harry	184	↑2	16
16	Louis	178	↓1	20
17	Arthur	162	↑1	15
18	Henry	154	↓5	12
19	Harold	144	–	13
20	Peter	140	↑2	48
21	Raymond	121	↓1	18
22	Stanley	121	↑8	43
23	Francis	119	↑2	35
24	Alfred	113	↓1	40
25	Richard	112	↑2	19
26	Paul	104	↑5	14
27	Samuel	98	↓6	30
28	Frederick	97	↑1	51
29	Stephen	95	↓3	88
30	Fred	93	↑6	26
31	Ralph	93	↑1	23
32	David	90	↓4	29
33	Andrew	89	↓9	44
34	Howard	89	↑7	25
35	Vincent	86	↓1	72
36	Nicholas	77	↑7	>100
37	Philip	74	new	69
38	Alexander	71	↑2	97
39	Herbert	71	new	39
40	Carl	66	↓1	24
41	Daniel	66	↑3	53
42	Benjamin	65	↑7	67
43	Ernest	59	new	32
44	Herman	59	↑3	50
45	Jack	59	↑5	28
46	Theodore	59	↓11	52
47	Donald	57	↓2	27
48	Eugene	57	↓2	41
49	Irving	55	new	94
50	Lawrence	54	↓17	38

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