Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1923

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1923 were Mary for girls (1,786 babies) and John for boys (2,357). Social Security records list 61,181 babies born in New Jersey in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1923

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: 36 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Carmella: 61 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Tessie: 32 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Angelina: 139 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Antoinette: 158 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Concetta: 55 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Yolanda: 67 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Angela: 72 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Claire: 140 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Philomena: 30 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 47 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Carmen: 58 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Dominick: 104 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Patsy: 50 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Rocco: 51 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Casimir: 19 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Salvatore: 120 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Nicholas: 172 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Pasquale: 24 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Angelo: 113 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	1,786	–	1
2	Helen	1,271	–	3
3	Dorothy	1,200	–	2
4	Margaret	960	–	4
5	Ruth	836	–	6
6	Anna	732	–	13
7	Elizabeth	694	–	9
8	Marie	669	–	14
9	Doris	649	↑1	11
10	Rose	602	↓1	23
11	Florence	521	–	18
12	Catherine	489	↑5	24
13	Mildred	480	–	8
14	Jean	463	↑1	19
15	Josephine	456	↓1	30
16	Frances	449	–	10
17	Eleanor	436	↓5	28
18	Evelyn	434	–	12
19	Irene	386	↑2	17
20	Lillian	380	–	20
21	Virginia	352	↓2	7
22	Alice	349	–	15
23	Marion	344	↑2	44
24	Gloria	337	–	48
25	Grace	327	↓2	39
26	Betty	302	↑2	5
27	Ann	270	↓1	52
28	Anne	244	↓1	71
29	Shirley	244	↑5	26
30	Jane	230	↑7	55
31	Edith	226	–	36
32	Louise	224	↓3	22
33	Edna	189	↓1	32
34	Beatrice	185	↑1	46
35	Jennie	184	↑7	>100
36	Theresa	182	↑9	>100
37	Gladys	180	↓4	29
38	Gertrude	179	↑3	59
39	Barbara	177	↑8	33
40	Ethel	172	↓10	38
41	Julia	168	↓5	62
42	Rita	167	↓4	50
43	Marjorie	166	↓4	16
44	Muriel	164	↓4	>100
45	Agnes	162	↓1	63
46	Antoinette	158	↑2	>100
47	Katherine	151	↓4	60
48	Elsie	147	new	61
49	Stella	146	new	96
50	Charlotte	145	new	77

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	John	2,357	–	1
2	William	1,773	–	3
3	Joseph	1,581	–	7
4	Robert	1,475	–	2
5	Edward	1,159	–	8
6	James	1,008	↑1	4
7	George	988	↓1	6
8	Charles	915	–	5
9	Frank	891	–	11
10	Thomas	644	–	12
11	Richard	566	↑2	9
12	Walter	525	↓1	16
13	Anthony	495	↓1	39
14	Michael	412	–	50
15	Harry	404	↑3	22
16	Harold	389	↑1	13
17	Raymond	385	↓2	15
18	Albert	382	↑3	20
19	Arthur	371	↓3	19
20	Henry	356	↓1	18
21	Louis	356	↓1	27
22	Donald	318	↑1	10
23	Paul	301	↑1	14
24	David	254	↑13	24
25	Vincent	248	↑3	72
26	Francis	246	↑1	34
27	Alfred	245	↓2	42
28	Stanley	245	↓2	41
29	Peter	244	↓7	58
30	Fred	221	–	33
31	Kenneth	220	–	21
32	Ralph	209	–	23
33	Howard	202	↓4	26
34	Andrew	185	↑2	53
35	Eugene	175	↓2	25
36	Herbert	172	↑3	40
37	Nicholas	172	↑1	>100
38	Jack	170	↑2	17
39	Theodore	169	↑2	62
40	Daniel	168	↓6	47
41	Samuel	161	↑1	45
42	Warren	158	↑2	43
43	Leonard	156	↑7	37
44	Frederick	151	↓9	60
45	Lawrence	144	↑1	36
46	Philip	130	↑2	70
47	Russell	125	new	52
48	Ernest	122	↓3	38
49	Salvatore	120	new	>100
50	Bernard	118	↓3	46

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