Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1916

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1916 were Mary for girls (1,881 babies) and John for boys (2,168). Social Security records list 52,944 babies born in New Jersey in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1916

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

Tessie: 47 babies, 5× the national rate
Philomena: 39 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Carmella: 52 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Carmela: 55 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Filomena: 18 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Concetta: 40 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Angelina: 91 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Yolanda: 29 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Adele: 81 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Sophie: 192 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 36 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Patsy: 44 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Carmen: 43 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Rocco: 46 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Dominick: 80 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Sigmund: 17 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Angelo: 96 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Michael: 456 babies, 4× the national rate
Saul: 24 babies, 4× the national rate
Nicholas: 148 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	1,881	–	1
2	Helen	1,534	–	2
3	Anna	949	–	7
4	Dorothy	942	↑1	3
5	Margaret	893	↓1	4
6	Elizabeth	709	↑1	8
7	Ruth	701	↓1	5
8	Rose	619	–	15
9	Marie	543	↑1	12
10	Mildred	499	↑1	6
11	Florence	477	↓2	14
12	Catherine	466	↑1	20
13	Josephine	446	↓1	21
14	Frances	412	–	9
15	Eleanor	408	↑1	27
16	Lillian	385	↓1	16
17	Evelyn	370	–	11
18	Alice	325	–	13
19	Grace	321	–	26
20	Jean	318	↑1	45
21	Anne	307	↓1	53
22	Marion	278	↑5	47
23	Ann	269	↑3	40
24	Edith	268	↑1	28
25	Virginia	267	↑7	10
26	Doris	258	↑3	32
27	Irene	250	↑1	17
28	Gertrude	237	↓5	35
29	Julia	237	↓5	46
30	Stella	233	↑3	63
31	Ethel	223	–	25
32	Louise	205	↓2	18
33	Jennie	204	↑1	79
34	Edna	198	↓12	19
35	Sophie	192	↑9	>100
36	Elsie	179	↓1	48
37	Katherine	177	↑2	51
38	Agnes	172	↑4	50
39	Betty	164	new	44
40	Gladys	164	–	22
41	Bertha	162	↑4	49
42	Theresa	162	↓4	98
43	Rita	157	↓7	67
44	Pauline	151	new	33
45	Beatrice	148	↓8	38
46	Sylvia	146	new	69
47	Emma	144	↓6	41
48	Ida	142	↓5	54
49	Marjorie	135	↓2	37
50	Esther	133	–	34

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	2,168	–	1
2	Joseph	1,483	–	5
3	William	1,391	–	2
4	George	842	↑2	7
5	Edward	837	–	8
6	Charles	827	↓2	6
7	Frank	774	↑1	9
8	Robert	738	↑1	4
9	James	736	↓2	3
10	Thomas	496	↑1	10
11	Walter	488	↓1	11
12	Michael	456	↑1	44
13	Anthony	413	↓1	37
14	Henry	359	↑1	14
15	Louis	345	↑2	22
16	Albert	334	–	17
17	Harry	332	↓3	19
18	Harold	300	↑3	13
19	Stanley	288	↑3	34
20	Peter	279	↓2	50
21	Paul	256	↑2	12
22	Arthur	255	↓3	18
23	Raymond	255	↑1	16
24	Alfred	229	↑8	43
25	Francis	221	–	31
26	Richard	221	↓6	15
27	Frederick	191	↑2	52
28	Andrew	188	–	46
29	Stephen	186	↓3	87
30	Vincent	186	↓3	67
31	Howard	165	–	25
32	Ralph	163	↑4	21
33	Samuel	160	↓3	41
34	Fred	148	–	29
35	Nicholas	148	↓2	>100
36	Theodore	146	↑2	65
37	David	140	–	28
38	Daniel	132	↑1	55
39	Alexander	126	↑3	99
40	Carl	126	↑10	23
41	Herbert	124	↓6	40
42	Kenneth	119	↑3	27
43	Norman	118	↑6	48
44	Bernard	116	new	49
45	Ernest	111	new	36
46	Eugene	110	↓3	39
47	Philip	110	↓7	70
48	Donald	108	↓4	20
49	Lawrence	106	new	38
50	Leonard	104	↓4	42

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