Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1921

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1921 were Mary for girls (1,922 babies) and John for boys (2,417). Social Security records list 61,518 babies born in New Jersey in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1921

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

Philomena: 39 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Concetta: 55 babies, 5× the national rate
Hedwig: 16 babies, 5× the national rate
Angelina: 137 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Carmela: 70 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Antoinette: 143 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Adele: 92 babies, 4× the national rate
Tessie: 30 babies, 4× the national rate
Filomena: 19 babies, 4× the national rate
Veronica: 107 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 50 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Patsy: 52 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Rocco: 54 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Dominick: 85 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Carmen: 47 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Dante: 17 babies, 5× the national rate
Steven: 55 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Nickolas: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Salvatore: 110 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Michael: 461 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	1,922	–	1
2	Helen	1,420	–	3
3	Dorothy	1,165	–	2
4	Margaret	1,062	–	4
5	Anna	852	↑1	11
6	Ruth	839	↓1	5
7	Elizabeth	735	–	10
8	Rose	685	↑1	20
9	Marie	629	↓1	14
10	Doris	602	↑1	13
11	Josephine	532	↑6	28
12	Florence	531	↓2	17
13	Mildred	505	–	7
14	Frances	473	–	9
15	Eleanor	470	↓3	29
16	Catherine	444	↓1	23
17	Jean	403	↑4	25
18	Evelyn	398	↓2	12
19	Virginia	374	–	6
20	Alice	362	–	15
21	Lillian	357	↓3	19
22	Grace	320	–	35
23	Marion	315	–	43
24	Irene	313	↑1	18
25	Ann	267	↑1	53
26	Anne	249	↓2	70
27	Betty	239	↑3	8
28	Edith	235	↑1	33
29	Louise	235	↑3	22
30	Marjorie	225	↑9	16
31	Ethel	216	↓4	32
32	Edna	209	↑3	27
33	Jennie	206	↑8	99
34	Shirley	206	↑8	44
35	Julia	199	↓4	58
36	Jane	195	↑7	47
37	Beatrice	193	–	41
38	Gertrude	193	↓10	46
39	Agnes	191	↓3	56
40	Stella	188	↓7	86
41	Katherine	181	↑5	49
42	Elsie	176	↑2	55
43	Rita	164	↓5	48
44	Theresa	164	↓4	>100
45	Gladys	158	↓11	24
46	Sophie	158	↓1	>100
47	Barbara	154	↑3	40
48	Gloria	153	new	>100
49	Muriel	151	new	>100
50	Olga	145	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	John	2,417	–	1
2	William	1,716	–	3
3	Joseph	1,580	–	7
4	Robert	1,321	–	2
5	Edward	1,088	–	8
6	George	1,011	↑1	6
7	Charles	996	↓1	5
8	James	959	–	4
9	Frank	862	–	9
10	Walter	605	–	15
11	Thomas	578	–	11
12	Anthony	538	–	40
13	Michael	461	–	47
14	Richard	436	–	10
15	Albert	384	↑2	20
16	Harry	379	↓1	21
17	Arthur	376	↑1	19
18	Raymond	374	↑5	16
19	Harold	365	↓3	12
20	Henry	356	↓1	17
21	Louis	355	↓1	29
22	Peter	342	–	57
23	Stanley	299	↓2	41
24	Paul	286	–	14
25	Donald	261	↑7	13
26	Alfred	255	–	43
27	Warren	232	↑22	24
28	Vincent	231	↑3	70
29	Francis	219	↓4	35
30	Ralph	207	↓3	23
31	Fred	199	↓2	33
32	Frederick	194	↑6	61
33	Theodore	193	↑3	65
34	Howard	190	↓4	27
35	Jack	189	↑13	18
36	Daniel	188	↑7	49
37	Kenneth	186	↓2	22
38	David	181	↓5	25
39	Samuel	181	↓5	44
40	Andrew	174	↓12	51
41	Herbert	174	↓2	42
42	Bernard	161	↑5	45
43	Eugene	159	↓6	26
44	Leonard	152	–	39
45	Nicholas	151	↓5	>100
46	Stephen	148	↓4	97
47	Norman	147	new	46
48	Ernest	144	new	38
49	Philip	143	↓8	72
50	Lawrence	137	↓5	37

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