Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1919

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1919 were Mary for girls (1,869 babies) and John for boys (2,279). Social Security records list 57,349 babies born in New Jersey in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1919

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: 25 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Tessie: 49 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carmella: 59 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Carmela: 58 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Hedwig: 18 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Philomena: 28 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Angelina: 105 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Stephanie: 34 babies, 4× the national rate
Veronica: 111 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Antoinette: 113 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 42 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Patsy: 53 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Rocco: 57 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Dominick: 83 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Carmen: 43 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Pasquale: 29 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Carlo: 18 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Winfield: 16 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Vito: 28 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Micheal: 18 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	1,869	–	1
2	Helen	1,540	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,057	–	3
4	Margaret	958	–	4
5	Anna	943	–	10
6	Ruth	850	–	5
7	Elizabeth	750	–	8
8	Rose	640	–	19
9	Marie	605	–	12
10	Florence	589	↑2	14
11	Josephine	491	↑4	26
12	Frances	489	↓1	9
13	Mildred	487	↓3	6
14	Eleanor	472	↓1	30
15	Catherine	454	↓1	23
16	Evelyn	410	↑1	11
17	Doris	403	↑2	18
18	Lillian	381	↓2	17
19	Virginia	339	↑1	7
20	Jean	330	↓2	37
21	Alice	320	–	13
22	Grace	320	–	34
23	Irene	309	↑2	16
24	Ann	291	–	49
25	Marion	277	↑1	44
26	Anne	275	↓3	63
27	Edith	262	↑1	29
28	Stella	252	↑2	70
29	Ethel	251	–	28
30	Julia	234	↑1	48
31	Gertrude	216	↑1	39
32	Jennie	216	↑3	93
33	Betty	212	↑11	15
34	Edna	206	↓7	22
35	Louise	204	↓2	20
36	Gladys	199	↑6	21
37	Beatrice	191	↑4	41
38	Katherine	190	↓4	51
39	Agnes	189	↓3	50
40	Sophie	189	↑3	>100
41	Theresa	176	↓3	>100
42	Elsie	166	↓2	47
43	Rita	164	↓6	54
44	Marjorie	161	↓5	33
45	Jane	152	↑2	53
46	Esther	150	new	38
47	Pauline	150	new	36
48	Bertha	147	↓3	52
49	Emma	145	↓3	45
50	Martha	145	–	25

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	John	2,279	–	1
2	Joseph	1,500	–	7
3	William	1,455	–	2
4	Robert	1,000	↑2	4
5	Edward	978	–	8
6	George	911	↓2	6
7	Charles	865	–	5
8	Frank	831	–	9
9	James	823	–	3
10	Walter	568	–	11
11	Anthony	505	↑1	41
12	Thomas	501	↓1	10
13	Michael	414	–	46
14	Albert	389	↑3	18
15	Harry	365	–	20
16	Richard	350	↑6	12
17	Stanley	349	↑3	37
18	Henry	344	↓2	16
19	Louis	339	↓5	28
20	Arthur	331	↓1	19
21	Harold	327	↓3	13
22	Peter	310	↑1	57
23	Raymond	289	↓2	14
24	Paul	251	–	15
25	Francis	226	↑4	34
26	Vincent	212	↑2	72
27	Alfred	202	↓1	42
28	David	202	↑7	27
29	Fred	198	↑7	30
30	Andrew	196	↓5	47
31	Ralph	189	↑2	22
32	Donald	185	↑7	17
33	Howard	184	↓3	24
34	Theodore	178	↓7	54
35	Daniel	167	↑6	51
36	Frederick	155	↓4	64
37	Philip	151	↑5	71
38	Kenneth	150	↑2	26
39	Samuel	150	↓8	43
40	Nicholas	148	↓6	>100
41	Herbert	146	↓4	40
42	Eugene	142	↑2	33
43	Jack	137	↑6	21
44	Martin	135	new	81
45	Stephen	135	↓2	97
46	Bernard	131	↑4	45
47	Leonard	129	new	39
48	Ernest	126	↓2	36
49	Lawrence	123	new	38
50	Chester	120	↓3	53

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