Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1914

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1914 were Mary for girls (1,449 babies) and John for boys (1,605). Social Security records list 38,099 babies born in New Jersey in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1914

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: 23 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Tessie: 33 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Carmella: 30 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Philomena: 25 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Concetta: 34 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Angelina: 65 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Natalie: 36 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Veronica: 69 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Adele: 61 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Stephanie: 24 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 21 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Patsy: 26 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Pasquale: 32 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Dominick: 56 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Carmen: 23 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Cornelius: 34 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Vito: 18 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Rocco: 21 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Michael: 345 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Nicholas: 116 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	1,449	–	1
2	Helen	1,083	–	2
3	Anna	760	–	6
4	Margaret	706	–	4
5	Dorothy	608	–	3
6	Elizabeth	566	–	8
7	Ruth	473	↑1	5
8	Rose	424	↓1	15
9	Marie	415	–	10
10	Florence	364	↑5	13
11	Mildred	360	–	7
12	Catherine	332	↓2	18
13	Frances	317	↓1	9
14	Lillian	312	↓1	16
15	Eleanor	293	↑2	28
16	Josephine	282	↓2	23
17	Evelyn	233	↓1	11
18	Grace	220	↑1	25
19	Alice	213	↓1	12
20	Anne	202	↑3	53
21	Edna	182	↑5	19
22	Jean	181	↓2	54
23	Edith	177	↓1	31
24	Gertrude	174	↑3	32
25	Marion	174	↓4	50
26	Ethel	169	↓2	21
27	Julia	168	↑1	42
28	Ann	167	↓3	40
29	Louise	164	–	17
30	Irene	152	↑2	22
31	Doris	151	↑9	36
32	Virginia	148	↑10	14
33	Elsie	146	↑1	46
34	Katherine	146	↓3	48
35	Jennie	141	↓2	77
36	Beatrice	140	↓6	38
37	Theresa	138	↓1	93
38	Rita	132	↑10	87
39	Agnes	124	↓2	44
40	Ida	120	↓2	49
41	Bertha	119	↑3	41
42	Stella	118	↓1	65
43	Martha	114	new	27
44	Gladys	110	↓5	20
45	Emma	108	↓10	39
46	Sophie	105	↑1	100
47	Clara	100	↓4	37
48	Pauline	100	new	34
49	Esther	99	↓3	35
50	Lucy	96	new	73

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	John	1,605	–	1
2	Joseph	1,058	–	5
3	William	1,028	–	2
4	Charles	681	–	7
5	Frank	628	↑2	9
6	Edward	617	–	8
7	George	573	↓2	6
8	James	555	–	3
9	Robert	485	–	4
10	Walter	418	–	10
11	Thomas	376	–	11
12	Michael	345	↑2	40
13	Anthony	331	↓1	37
14	Henry	276	↑3	12
15	Harry	263	–	19
16	Albert	258	–	15
17	Louis	258	↓4	20
18	Harold	208	–	14
19	Stanley	199	↑2	39
20	Arthur	193	↓1	18
21	Paul	187	↓1	13
22	Raymond	185	↑4	16
23	Peter	183	↓1	48
24	Richard	176	–	17
25	Francis	158	↑4	31
26	Alfred	146	↓1	41
27	Stephen	138	↑5	80
28	David	137	↑8	29
29	Frederick	137	↓1	52
30	Andrew	133	↓3	44
31	Fred	132	↑4	28
32	Howard	127	↓2	26
33	Samuel	126	↓10	36
34	Vincent	122	↓3	61
35	Nicholas	116	↑5	>100
36	Philip	113	↑9	68
37	Daniel	103	↑6	55
38	Herbert	103	↓5	42
39	Bernard	101	↑9	50
40	Theodore	98	↓6	64
41	Ralph	91	↓3	21
42	Carl	88	↓3	24
43	Kenneth	88	new	30
44	Lawrence	88	new	35
45	Jack	84	↓3	27
46	Milton	82	↑1	69
47	Ernest	81	↑2	38
48	Russell	81	new	49
49	Edwin	80	new	53
50	Eugene	78	↓9	43

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