Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1922

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1922 were Mary for girls (1,801 babies) and John for boys (2,300). Social Security records list 59,924 babies born in New Jersey in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1922

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: 42 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Filomena: 28 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Antonette: 21 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Angelina: 153 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Carmella: 68 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Antoinette: 146 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Concetta: 53 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Yolanda: 51 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Stephanie: 24 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Veronica: 107 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Carmen: 56 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Patsy: 54 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Dominick: 95 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Carmine: 36 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Americo: 16 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Rocco: 50 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Nicholas: 177 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Micheal: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Salvatore: 123 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Pasquale: 30 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	1,801	–	1
2	Helen	1,256	–	3
3	Dorothy	1,181	–	2
4	Margaret	979	–	4
5	Ruth	820	↑1	5
6	Anna	766	↓1	12
7	Elizabeth	661	–	9
8	Marie	646	↑1	14
9	Rose	617	↓1	23
10	Doris	560	–	11
11	Florence	535	↑1	18
12	Eleanor	500	↑3	28
13	Mildred	498	–	8
14	Josephine	481	↓3	27
15	Jean	458	↑2	20
16	Frances	456	↓2	10
17	Catherine	452	↓1	24
18	Evelyn	397	–	13
19	Virginia	385	–	7
20	Lillian	353	↑1	19
21	Irene	351	↑3	17
22	Alice	325	↓2	15
23	Grace	323	↓1	38
24	Gloria	301	↑24	61
25	Marion	285	↓2	42
26	Ann	264	↓1	49
27	Anne	253	↓1	66
28	Betty	248	↓1	6
29	Louise	233	–	22
30	Ethel	227	↑1	32
31	Edith	225	↓3	34
32	Edna	208	–	29
33	Gladys	202	↑12	25
34	Shirley	202	–	39
35	Beatrice	201	↑2	43
36	Julia	195	↓1	60
37	Jane	190	↓1	55
38	Rita	186	↑5	52
39	Marjorie	183	↓9	16
40	Muriel	182	↑9	>100
41	Gertrude	180	↓3	48
42	Jennie	176	↓9	>100
43	Katherine	162	↓2	54
44	Agnes	160	↓5	62
45	Theresa	159	↓1	>100
46	Angelina	153	new	>100
47	Barbara	151	–	40
48	Antoinette	146	new	>100
49	Sophie	144	↓3	>100
50	Olga	141	–	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	John	2,300	–	1
2	William	1,696	–	3
3	Joseph	1,609	–	7
4	Robert	1,387	–	2
5	Edward	1,094	–	8
6	George	1,070	–	6
7	James	1,004	↑1	4
8	Charles	895	↓1	5
9	Frank	870	–	10
10	Thomas	582	↑1	11
11	Walter	524	↓1	15
12	Anthony	510	–	39
13	Richard	494	↑1	9
14	Michael	415	↓1	48
15	Raymond	407	↑3	16
16	Arthur	387	↑1	19
17	Harold	366	↑2	13
18	Harry	362	↓2	22
19	Henry	354	↑1	17
20	Louis	352	↑1	27
21	Albert	333	↓6	20
22	Peter	307	–	57
23	Donald	283	↑2	12
24	Paul	269	–	14
25	Alfred	261	↑1	42
26	Stanley	252	↓3	41
27	Francis	249	↑2	34
28	Vincent	232	–	71
29	Howard	203	↑5	26
30	Fred	202	↑1	33
31	Kenneth	201	↑6	21
32	Ralph	196	↓2	23
33	Eugene	187	↑10	25
34	Daniel	186	↑2	47
35	Frederick	183	↓3	60
36	Andrew	182	↑4	53
37	David	179	↑1	24
38	Nicholas	177	↑7	>100
39	Herbert	167	↑2	40
40	Jack	167	↓5	18
41	Theodore	152	↓8	62
42	Samuel	150	↓3	43
43	Norman	147	↑4	44
44	Warren	145	↓17	45
45	Ernest	144	↑3	37
46	Lawrence	142	↑4	36
47	Bernard	138	↓5	46
48	Philip	132	↑1	70
49	Edwin	128	new	52
50	Leonard	128	↓6	38

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