Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1918

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1918 were Mary for girls (1,990 babies) and John for boys (2,377). Social Security records list 59,107 babies born in New Jersey in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1918

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: 63 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Filomena: 26 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Hedwig: 22 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Philomena: 31 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Carmella: 52 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Angelina: 99 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Emilie: 18 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Carmela: 49 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Stephanie: 35 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Olga: 152 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 43 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Sigmund: 34 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Patsy: 48 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Dominick: 92 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Salvatore: 120 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Angelo: 115 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Vito: 33 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Nicholas: 178 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Michael: 462 babies, 4× the national rate
Pasquale: 27 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	1,990	–	1
2	Helen	1,679	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,089	↑2	3
4	Margaret	1,028	–	4
5	Anna	962	↓2	10
6	Ruth	837	↑1	5
7	Elizabeth	713	↓1	9
8	Rose	629	–	17
9	Marie	609	–	12
10	Mildred	552	–	6
11	Frances	543	↑1	8
12	Florence	536	↓1	14
13	Eleanor	497	↑2	26
14	Catherine	492	–	20
15	Josephine	454	↓2	24
16	Lillian	424	↑1	15
17	Evelyn	414	↓1	11
18	Jean	394	↑2	37
19	Doris	390	↑3	19
20	Virginia	353	↑4	7
21	Alice	343	↓3	13
22	Grace	338	↓3	31
23	Anne	317	–	54
24	Ann	296	↓3	44
25	Irene	280	↑1	16
26	Marion	271	↓1	45
27	Edna	247	↑5	23
28	Edith	245	↓1	30
29	Ethel	240	↓1	28
30	Stella	234	↑5	67
31	Julia	233	↓2	48
32	Gertrude	225	↓1	39
33	Louise	213	↓3	18
34	Katherine	209	↓1	50
35	Jennie	202	↓1	91
36	Agnes	199	–	47
37	Rita	196	↑8	58
38	Theresa	193	↑3	>100
39	Marjorie	190	new	34
40	Elsie	189	↑3	49
41	Beatrice	186	↓3	40
42	Gladys	186	↓3	22
43	Sophie	176	↓6	>100
44	Betty	170	↓2	21
45	Bertha	153	↓5	51
46	Emma	153	new	46
47	Jane	153	new	53
48	Olga	152	new	>100
49	Ida	144	new	57
50	Martha	143	↓1	25

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	John	2,377	–	1
2	Joseph	1,546	–	7
3	William	1,487	–	2
4	George	967	–	6
5	Edward	960	↑1	8
6	Robert	954	↑2	4
7	Charles	930	–	5
8	Frank	889	↓3	9
9	James	798	–	3
10	Walter	578	–	11
11	Thomas	522	↑1	10
12	Anthony	515	↓1	39
13	Michael	462	–	45
14	Louis	379	–	24
15	Harry	365	↑1	20
16	Henry	364	↑1	16
17	Albert	343	↓2	19
18	Harold	332	↑1	13
19	Arthur	324	↑1	17
20	Stanley	323	↓2	36
21	Raymond	309	↑3	15
22	Richard	291	↓1	12
23	Peter	288	–	53
24	Paul	271	↓2	14
25	Andrew	240	↑1	46
26	Alfred	212	↑4	42
27	Theodore	212	↑7	64
28	Vincent	210	↑1	73
29	Francis	205	↓4	30
30	Howard	205	↑2	26
31	Samuel	190	↑5	43
32	Frederick	183	↓1	59
33	Ralph	182	↑2	22
34	Nicholas	178	↑7	>100
35	David	169	↓8	28
36	Fred	165	↓8	33
37	Herbert	165	–	40
38	Victor	156	new	63
39	Donald	151	↓1	18
40	Kenneth	150	↑7	27
41	Daniel	147	↓2	52
42	Philip	145	↑1	71
43	Stephen	145	↓10	96
44	Eugene	140	–	35
45	Carl	134	–	25
46	Ernest	134	↑4	37
47	Chester	133	↓5	54
48	Alexander	129	–	>100
49	Jack	127	new	21
50	Bernard	125	↓10	47

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