Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1917

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1917 were Mary for girls (2,015 babies) and John for boys (2,351). Social Security records list 55,961 babies born in New Jersey in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1917

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: 66 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Carmella: 62 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Concetta: 45 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Angelina: 105 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Philomena: 33 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Hedwig: 15 babies, 4× the national rate
Filomena: 15 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Antoinette: 115 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Carmela: 46 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Stephanie: 38 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 34 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Dominick: 96 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Patsy: 45 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Carmen: 41 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Rocco: 45 babies, 5× the national rate
Salvatore: 97 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Steven: 44 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Vito: 28 babies, 4× the national rate
Michael: 463 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Sigmund: 16 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	2,015	–	1
2	Helen	1,536	–	2
3	Anna	993	–	7
4	Margaret	974	↑1	4
5	Dorothy	924	↓1	3
6	Elizabeth	705	–	8
7	Ruth	697	–	5
8	Rose	669	–	16
9	Marie	585	–	12
10	Mildred	518	–	6
11	Florence	509	–	14
12	Frances	495	↑2	9
13	Josephine	455	–	21
14	Catherine	451	↓2	18
15	Eleanor	433	–	26
16	Evelyn	392	↑1	11
17	Lillian	380	↓1	15
18	Alice	338	–	13
19	Grace	335	–	30
20	Jean	335	–	40
21	Ann	319	↑2	44
22	Doris	313	↑4	25
23	Anne	293	↓2	53
24	Virginia	293	↑1	10
25	Marion	274	↓3	45
26	Irene	268	↑1	17
27	Edith	253	↓3	28
28	Ethel	237	↑3	24
29	Julia	233	–	47
30	Louise	232	↑2	19
31	Gertrude	230	↓3	37
32	Edna	227	↑2	20
33	Katherine	206	↑4	49
34	Jennie	200	↓1	81
35	Stella	198	↓5	62
36	Agnes	190	↑2	48
37	Sophie	183	↓2	100
38	Beatrice	178	↑7	39
39	Gladys	178	↑1	23
40	Bertha	177	↑1	51
41	Theresa	167	↑1	97
42	Betty	166	↓3	34
43	Elsie	160	↓7	50
44	Pauline	158	–	33
45	Rita	157	↓2	63
46	Esther	143	↑4	38
47	Viola	138	new	59
48	Emily	137	new	>100
49	Martha	136	new	22
50	Clara	135	new	41

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	John	2,351	–	1
2	Joseph	1,565	–	5
3	William	1,518	–	2
4	George	928	–	6
5	Frank	882	↑2	9
6	Edward	850	↓1	8
7	Charles	849	↓1	7
8	Robert	784	–	4
9	James	772	–	3
10	Walter	521	↑1	11
11	Anthony	518	↑2	38
12	Thomas	497	↓2	10
13	Michael	463	↓1	44
14	Louis	380	↑1	23
15	Albert	371	↑1	18
16	Harry	363	↑1	19
17	Henry	348	↓3	15
18	Stanley	323	↑1	34
19	Harold	314	↓1	12
20	Arthur	310	↑2	17
21	Richard	304	↑5	14
22	Paul	288	↓1	13
23	Peter	288	↓3	50
24	Raymond	254	↓1	16
25	Francis	253	–	30
26	Andrew	220	↑2	48
27	David	193	↑10	28
28	Fred	193	↑6	29
29	Vincent	190	↑1	65
30	Alfred	185	↓6	43
31	Frederick	185	↓4	51
32	Howard	178	↓1	26
33	Stephen	178	↓4	89
34	Theodore	168	↑2	63
35	Ralph	162	↓3	21
36	Samuel	161	↓3	42
37	Herbert	157	↑4	40
38	Donald	156	↑10	20
39	Daniel	148	↓1	54
40	Bernard	140	↑4	49
41	Nicholas	140	↓6	>100
42	Chester	134	new	56
43	Philip	133	↑4	66
44	Eugene	125	↑2	39
45	Carl	123	↓5	24
46	Benjamin	119	new	76
47	Kenneth	119	↓5	27
48	Alexander	118	↓9	97
49	Lawrence	116	–	36
50	Ernest	114	↓5	37

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