Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1915

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1915 were Mary for girls (1,923 babies) and John for boys (1,998). Social Security records list 49,968 babies born in New Jersey in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1915

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

Stephanie: 51 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Tessie: 41 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Hedwig: 20 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Philomena: 35 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Angelina: 100 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Filomena: 17 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Antonette: 16 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Carmella: 37 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Concetta: 32 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Antoinette: 93 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 34 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Sigmund: 22 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Dominick: 79 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Patsy: 35 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Christian: 19 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Carmen: 26 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Nicholas: 159 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Salvatore: 89 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Stephen: 192 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Rocco: 30 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	1,923	–	1
2	Helen	1,385	–	2
3	Anna	932	–	7
4	Margaret	907	–	4
5	Dorothy	848	–	3
6	Ruth	692	↑1	5
7	Elizabeth	646	↓1	8
8	Rose	605	–	16
9	Florence	506	↑1	14
10	Marie	506	↓1	11
11	Mildred	483	–	6
12	Josephine	451	↑4	22
13	Catherine	416	↓1	19
14	Frances	396	↓1	9
15	Lillian	383	↓1	15
16	Eleanor	367	↓1	28
17	Evelyn	341	–	10
18	Alice	298	↑1	13
19	Grace	293	↓1	27
20	Anne	291	–	52
21	Jean	283	↑1	48
22	Edna	246	↓1	20
23	Gertrude	242	↑1	35
24	Julia	241	↑3	44
25	Edith	237	↓2	31
26	Ann	236	↑2	43
27	Marion	232	↓2	50
28	Irene	221	↑2	17
29	Doris	220	↑2	34
30	Louise	211	↓1	18
31	Ethel	209	↓5	23
32	Virginia	207	–	12
33	Stella	196	↑9	64
34	Jennie	188	↑1	73
35	Elsie	187	↓2	41
36	Rita	185	↑2	71
37	Beatrice	177	↓1	37
38	Theresa	174	↓1	93
39	Katherine	161	↓5	49
40	Gladys	160	↑4	21
41	Emma	159	↑4	40
42	Agnes	154	↓3	45
43	Ida	144	↓3	54
44	Sophie	143	↑2	97
45	Bertha	141	↓4	46
46	Martha	140	↓3	25
47	Marjorie	131	new	39
48	Emily	130	new	99
49	Clara	129	↓2	38
50	Esther	127	↓1	33

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	1,998	–	1
2	Joseph	1,418	–	5
3	William	1,340	–	2
4	Charles	801	–	7
5	Edward	783	↑1	8
6	George	780	↑1	6
7	James	681	↑1	3
8	Frank	673	↓3	9
9	Robert	650	–	4
10	Walter	453	–	11
11	Thomas	430	–	10
12	Anthony	425	↑1	36
13	Michael	400	↓1	43
14	Harry	345	↑1	19
15	Henry	310	↓1	14
16	Albert	305	–	17
17	Louis	303	–	23
18	Peter	271	↑5	49
19	Arthur	264	↑1	18
20	Richard	256	↑4	15
21	Harold	247	↓3	12
22	Stanley	239	↓3	34
23	Paul	233	↓2	13
24	Raymond	231	↓2	16
25	Francis	207	–	29
26	Stephen	192	↑1	86
27	Vincent	191	↑7	65
28	Andrew	185	↑2	46
29	Frederick	185	–	52
30	Samuel	170	↑3	39
31	Howard	166	↑1	25
32	Alfred	164	↓6	42
33	Nicholas	159	↑2	>100
34	Fred	158	↓3	26
35	Herbert	158	↑3	40
36	Ralph	154	↑5	21
37	David	147	↓9	31
38	Theodore	138	↑2	64
39	Daniel	136	↓2	55
40	Philip	122	↓4	69
41	Chester	111	new	54
42	Alexander	109	new	>100
43	Eugene	108	↑7	41
44	Donald	107	new	20
45	Kenneth	104	↓2	28
46	Leonard	103	new	44
47	Victor	99	new	74
48	Jack	98	↓3	27
49	Norman	98	new	50
50	Carl	97	↓8	22

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