Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1920

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1920 were Mary for girls (1,885 babies) and John for boys (2,440). Social Security records list 60,712 babies born in New Jersey in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1920

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: 55 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Angelina: 160 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Carmella: 71 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Filomena: 27 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Concetta: 52 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Carmela: 63 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Hedwig: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Adele: 102 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Antoinette: 123 babies, 4× the national rate
Veronica: 103 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 52 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Sigmund: 24 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Patsy: 54 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Rocco: 63 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Carmen: 42 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Dominick: 78 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Nicholas: 159 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Steven: 48 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Thaddeus: 33 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Michael: 434 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	1,885	–	1
2	Helen	1,542	–	3
3	Dorothy	1,179	–	2
4	Margaret	1,060	–	4
5	Ruth	876	↑1	5
6	Anna	837	↓1	10
7	Elizabeth	724	–	8
8	Marie	660	↑1	13
9	Rose	599	↓1	20
10	Florence	570	–	16
11	Doris	519	↑6	14
12	Eleanor	516	↑2	25
13	Mildred	505	–	6
14	Frances	504	↓2	9
15	Catherine	481	–	21
16	Evelyn	449	–	12
17	Josephine	443	↓6	28
18	Lillian	379	–	18
19	Virginia	359	–	7
20	Alice	353	↑1	15
21	Jean	342	↓1	33
22	Grace	328	–	37
23	Marion	310	↑2	43
24	Anne	302	↑2	65
25	Irene	278	↓2	17
26	Ann	274	↓2	49
27	Ethel	258	↑2	30
28	Gertrude	251	↑3	42
29	Edith	230	↓2	32
30	Betty	223	↑3	11
31	Julia	222	↓1	55
32	Louise	211	↑3	19
33	Stella	208	↓5	82
34	Gladys	206	↑2	22
35	Edna	204	↓1	27
36	Agnes	201	↑3	54
37	Beatrice	198	–	41
38	Rita	196	↑5	52
39	Marjorie	190	↑5	24
40	Theresa	189	↑1	>100
41	Jennie	175	↓9	97
42	Shirley	175	new	56
43	Jane	172	↑2	48
44	Elsie	168	↓2	51
45	Sophie	165	↓5	>100
46	Katherine	162	↓8	45
47	Angelina	160	new	>100
48	Clara	156	new	44
49	Emma	155	–	46
50	Barbara	154	new	47

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	John	2,440	–	1
2	William	1,745	↑1	2
3	Joseph	1,609	↓1	7
4	Robert	1,179	–	3
5	Edward	1,041	–	8
6	Charles	1,034	↑1	5
7	George	1,029	↓1	6
8	James	955	↑1	4
9	Frank	873	↓1	9
10	Walter	592	–	13
11	Thomas	578	↑1	11
12	Anthony	504	↓1	43
13	Michael	434	–	50
14	Richard	434	↑2	10
15	Harry	395	–	21
16	Harold	381	↑5	12
17	Albert	368	↓3	19
18	Arthur	361	↑2	18
19	Henry	360	↓1	17
20	Louis	358	↓1	28
21	Stanley	354	↓4	40
22	Peter	334	–	57
23	Raymond	329	–	15
24	Paul	262	–	14
25	Francis	254	–	34
26	Alfred	228	↑1	42
27	Ralph	225	↑4	22
28	Andrew	224	↑2	49
29	Fred	219	–	33
30	Howard	205	↑3	24
31	Vincent	205	↓5	73
32	Donald	204	–	16
33	David	191	↓5	25
34	Samuel	183	↑5	44
35	Kenneth	182	↑3	23
36	Theodore	176	↓2	63
37	Eugene	175	↑5	30
38	Frederick	166	↓2	60
39	Herbert	163	↑2	41
40	Nicholas	159	–	>100
41	Philip	153	↓4	71
42	Stephen	153	↑3	96
43	Daniel	150	↓8	52
44	Leonard	150	↑3	38
45	Lawrence	141	↑4	36
46	Carl	140	new	27
47	Bernard	137	↓1	46
48	Jack	132	↓5	20
49	Warren	126	new	39
50	Russell	124	new	51

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