Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1913

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1913 were Mary for girls (1,078 babies) and John for boys (1,237). Social Security records list 29,201 babies born in New Jersey in 1913 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1913

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

Concetta: 24 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Philomena: 18 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Angelina: 58 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Carmela: 22 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Stephanie: 17 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Antoinette: 58 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Adele: 41 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Carmella: 15 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Edythe: 24 babies, 3× the national rate
Theresa: 101 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 20 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Carmen: 19 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Patsy: 18 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Vito: 16 babies, 5× the national rate
Dominick: 38 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Rocco: 19 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Pasquale: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Salvatore: 44 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Nicholas: 80 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Angelo: 48 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1913

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	Mary	1,078	–	1
2	Helen	827	–	2
3	Anna	605	–	7
4	Margaret	577	–	4
5	Dorothy	482	–	3
6	Elizabeth	435	–	8
7	Rose	368	–	14
8	Ruth	347	–	5
9	Marie	307	–	10
10	Catherine	294	↑2	22
11	Mildred	279	↓1	6
12	Frances	259	↑1	9
13	Lillian	235	↑1	16
14	Josephine	227	↑3	24
15	Florence	225	↓4	13
16	Evelyn	223	↑2	12
17	Eleanor	214	↓1	34
18	Alice	189	↓3	11
19	Grace	169	↑4	25
20	Jean	157	↑1	60
21	Marion	147	↓2	51
22	Edith	145	↑6	29
23	Anne	142	↓1	57
24	Ethel	141	↑2	20
25	Ann	136	↓1	46
26	Edna	127	↓1	18
27	Gertrude	124	↓7	33
28	Julia	123	↑1	42
29	Louise	118	↑1	17
30	Beatrice	116	↓3	37
31	Katherine	113	↑4	54
32	Irene	112	–	21
33	Jennie	109	↑1	80
34	Elsie	105	↑6	40
35	Emma	103	↑2	38
36	Theresa	101	–	97
37	Agnes	100	↓4	41
38	Ida	98	↓7	49
39	Gladys	95	↑2	19
40	Doris	91	↑7	44
41	Stella	91	↑5	69
42	Virginia	90	↓3	15
43	Clara	87	new	36
44	Bertha	86	↓6	39
45	Kathryn	86	↓3	66
46	Esther	82	↑2	32
47	Sophie	80	↓2	>100
48	Rita	76	new	>100
49	Emily	74	new	99
50	Charlotte	73	new	87

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1912	US rank
1	John	1,237	–	1
2	Joseph	821	–	5
3	William	774	–	2
4	Charles	492	↑1	7
5	George	477	↓1	6
6	Edward	456	–	8
7	Frank	431	↑1	9
8	James	429	↓1	3
9	Robert	368	–	4
10	Walter	285	↑1	11
11	Thomas	263	↓1	10
12	Anthony	251	–	38
13	Louis	234	↑3	20
14	Michael	227	↓1	40
15	Harry	204	–	15
16	Albert	200	↓2	16
17	Henry	196	↑1	12
18	Harold	166	↑1	13
19	Arthur	157	↓2	17
20	Paul	154	↑6	14
21	Stanley	148	↑1	41
22	Peter	144	↓2	51
23	Samuel	136	↑4	36
24	Richard	133	↑1	19
25	Alfred	126	↓1	42
26	Raymond	126	↓5	18
27	Andrew	122	↑6	47
28	Frederick	119	–	49
29	Francis	115	↓6	30
30	Howard	110	↑4	26
31	Vincent	102	↑4	66
32	Stephen	98	↓3	86
33	Herbert	95	↑6	39
34	Theodore	91	↑12	60
35	Fred	89	↓5	27
36	David	88	↓4	29
37	Benjamin	86	↑5	70
38	Ralph	86	↓7	22
39	Carl	83	↑1	23
40	Nicholas	80	↓4	>100
41	Eugene	77	↑7	43
42	Jack	75	↑3	28
43	Daniel	72	↓2	54
44	Alexander	67	↓6	98
45	Philip	67	↓8	69
46	Donald	65	↑1	25
47	Milton	62	new	71
48	Bernard	57	new	52
49	Ernest	55	↓6	34
50	Leonard	55	new	46

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