Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1924

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1924 were Mary for girls (1,772 babies) and John for boys (2,383). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 62,320 babies born in New Jersey in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1924

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: 30 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Carmella: 71 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Concetta: 62 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Carmela: 68 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Antoinette: 155 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Angelina: 126 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Veronica: 109 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Yolanda: 65 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Philomena: 33 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Tessie: 22 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Boys

Carmen: 65 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Patsy: 55 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Carmine: 38 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Rocco: 58 babies, 6× the national rate
Dominick: 90 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Vito: 34 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Angelo: 108 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Micheal: 20 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Nicholas: 163 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Anthony: 535 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	1,772	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,240	↑1	2
3	Helen	1,219	↓1	3
4	Margaret	981	–	5
5	Ruth	868	–	6
6	Anna	717	–	13
7	Marie	704	↑1	14
8	Elizabeth	676	↓1	11
9	Doris	657	–	9
10	Rose	584	–	25
11	Florence	558	–	20
12	Eleanor	473	↑5	29
13	Jean	458	↑1	16
14	Mildred	458	↓1	8
15	Catherine	451	↓3	27
16	Josephine	435	↓1	34
17	Evelyn	429	↑1	12
18	Frances	424	↓2	10
19	Gloria	393	↑5	41
20	Virginia	370	↑1	7
21	Alice	359	↑1	15
22	Betty	357	↑4	4
23	Lillian	355	↓3	23
24	Marion	354	↓1	46
25	Irene	337	↓6	18
26	Grace	320	↓1	43
27	Ann	301	–	55
28	Shirley	290	↑1	19
29	Jane	247	↑1	53
30	Anne	232	↓2	79
31	Barbara	227	↑8	28
32	Louise	225	–	24
33	Edith	211	↓2	36
34	Gladys	203	↑3	30
35	Edna	199	↓2	31
36	Theresa	184	–	96
37	Marjorie	183	↑6	17
38	Beatrice	180	↓4	50
39	Rita	180	↑3	49
40	Ethel	177	–	39
41	Gertrude	177	↓3	60
42	Jennie	172	↓7	>100
43	Agnes	158	↑2	63
44	Antoinette	155	↑2	>100
45	Julia	154	↓4	62
46	June	151	new	45
47	Elsie	150	↑1	61
48	Claire	148	new	>100
49	Muriel	148	↓5	>100
50	Katherine	143	↓3	59

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	John	2,383	–	2
2	William	1,781	–	3
3	Robert	1,644	↑1	1
4	Joseph	1,523	↓1	7
5	Edward	1,200	–	9
6	George	1,012	↑1	6
7	James	1,011	↓1	4
8	Charles	951	–	5
9	Frank	872	–	12
10	Thomas	601	–	11
11	Richard	573	–	8
12	Walter	538	–	16
13	Anthony	535	–	39
14	Albert	444	↑4	21
15	Harry	419	–	22
16	Raymond	415	↑1	15
17	Henry	392	↑3	18
18	Michael	382	↓4	54
19	Arthur	362	–	20
20	Harold	352	↓4	13
21	Louis	330	–	28
22	Donald	311	–	10
23	Paul	283	–	14
24	Peter	281	↑5	59
25	Stanley	267	↑3	40
26	Francis	258	–	34
27	Howard	250	↑6	26
28	Alfred	240	↓1	43
29	David	240	↓5	24
30	Fred	234	–	32
31	Ralph	232	↑1	23
32	Eugene	218	↑3	25
33	Daniel	215	↑7	47
34	Vincent	210	↓9	78
35	Kenneth	206	↓4	19
36	Jack	197	↑2	17
37	Andrew	195	↓3	56
38	Herbert	184	↓2	41
39	Samuel	178	↑2	45
40	Theodore	170	↓1	65
41	Nicholas	163	↓4	>100
42	Bernard	161	↑8	46
43	Philip	161	↑3	71
44	Leonard	154	↓1	38
45	Ernest	150	↑3	37
46	Frederick	144	↓2	62
47	Lawrence	141	↓2	36
48	Norman	139	new	42
49	Russell	137	↓2	52
50	Stephen	137	new	>100

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