Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1926

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1926 were Mary for girls (1,466 babies) and John for boys (2,362). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 60,547 babies born in New Jersey in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1926

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: 35 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Concetta: 59 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Philomena: 35 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Antoinette: 152 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carmela: 67 babies, 5× the national rate
Clare: 31 babies, 5× the national rate
Adelaide: 31 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Angelina: 97 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Wilhelmina: 20 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Carmella: 54 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Boys

Carmen: 63 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Dominick: 83 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Carmine: 27 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Rocco: 40 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Salvatore: 124 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Patsy: 33 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Nicholas: 145 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Orlando: 16 babies, 4× the national rate
Vito: 32 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Bruno: 22 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	1,466	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,154	–	2
3	Helen	1,028	–	4
4	Margaret	880	–	5
5	Ruth	727	–	6
6	Doris	712	–	7
7	Marie	698	–	18
8	Anna	620	–	15
9	Elizabeth	590	–	11
10	Jean	559	–	12
11	Gloria	500	↑1	20
12	Rose	494	↓1	25
13	Eleanor	476	↑1	32
14	Florence	464	↓1	26
15	Betty	461	–	3
16	Frances	414	–	10
17	Catherine	394	↑1	31
18	Irene	379	↑5	21
19	Evelyn	378	↑1	13
20	Josephine	373	↓1	37
21	Mildred	366	↓4	9
22	Virginia	320	↑2	8
23	Alice	311	↓2	17
24	Lillian	310	↓2	28
25	Marion	307	–	47
26	Grace	291	↑2	46
27	Shirley	280	↓1	14
28	Barbara	270	↑3	16
29	Jane	268	↑1	56
30	Ann	264	↓3	55
31	Theresa	250	↑1	64
32	Louise	229	↑5	27
33	Anne	226	↑2	86
34	Joan	220	↑4	51
35	Patricia	200	↑4	23
36	Rita	188	↓2	50
37	June	184	↓4	40
38	Edith	176	↓9	42
39	Nancy	176	new	57
40	Dolores	175	new	49
41	Ethel	170	↓5	41
42	Gladys	167	↑4	35
43	Gertrude	166	↓3	71
44	Claire	164	new	>100
45	Edna	158	↓3	38
46	Lois	158	↑3	19
47	Eileen	157	new	92
48	Marjorie	156	↓7	22
49	Charlotte	155	↓2	78
50	Antoinette	152	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	John	2,362	–	2
2	William	1,800	–	4
3	Robert	1,710	–	1
4	Joseph	1,515	–	8
5	Edward	1,066	–	10
6	James	1,046	↑1	3
7	George	983	↓1	6
8	Charles	939	–	5
9	Frank	862	–	12
10	Richard	754	–	7
11	Thomas	644	–	11
12	Anthony	527	–	42
13	Walter	513	–	17
14	Donald	432	↑2	9
15	Raymond	432	↓1	15
16	Arthur	383	↑1	20
17	Albert	382	↓2	21
18	Harry	363	↑5	25
19	Henry	360	–	19
20	Paul	342	↑1	13
21	Louis	341	↓1	30
22	Michael	336	↓4	56
23	Harold	335	↓1	14
24	Peter	301	–	58
25	David	268	↑2	22
26	Eugene	266	↑4	23
27	Alfred	264	↓1	45
28	Fred	254	–	31
29	Francis	249	↑3	35
30	Stanley	241	↑4	43
31	Ralph	235	↓2	24
32	Vincent	232	↓7	77
33	Howard	209	↑7	27
34	Kenneth	196	↓3	18
35	Jack	191	↑1	16
36	Leonard	185	↑6	38
37	Andrew	178	↓2	59
38	Daniel	174	↓5	46
39	Herbert	171	↑2	44
40	Theodore	167	↓3	63
41	Frederick	163	↓2	64
42	Lawrence	163	↑7	36
43	Nicholas	145	–	>100
44	Norman	145	↑2	39
45	Ernest	144	–	37
46	Bernard	134	↓2	49
47	Samuel	134	↓9	48
48	Philip	130	↓1	70
49	Salvatore	124	new	>100
50	Carl	123	–	26

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