Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1927

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1927 were Mary for girls (1,568 babies) and John for boys (2,254). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 61,093 babies born in New Jersey in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1927

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: 20 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Angelina: 131 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Philomena: 39 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Carmella: 66 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carmela: 69 babies, 5× the national rate
Veronica: 94 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Antoinette: 116 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Concetta: 40 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Vilma: 23 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Adele: 72 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Boys

Rocco: 60 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Patsy: 52 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Dominick: 83 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Carmine: 33 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Carmen: 48 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Pasquale: 26 babies, 5× the national rate
Salvatore: 138 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Vito: 29 babies, 4× the national rate
Gabriel: 26 babies, 4× the national rate
Nicholas: 130 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	1,568	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,196	–	2
3	Helen	994	–	4
4	Margaret	865	–	5
5	Doris	798	↑1	7
6	Marie	710	↑1	20
7	Ruth	688	↓2	6
8	Elizabeth	649	↑1	13
9	Jean	634	↑1	14
10	Anna	593	↓2	16
11	Rose	516	↑1	23
12	Gloria	482	↓1	22
13	Florence	476	↑1	28
14	Betty	461	↑1	3
15	Eleanor	442	↓2	33
16	Catherine	410	↑1	31
17	Josephine	379	↑3	39
18	Frances	378	↓2	12
19	Irene	370	↓1	21
20	Evelyn	365	↓1	15
21	Shirley	350	↑6	9
22	Mildred	346	↓1	11
23	Alice	338	–	17
24	Virginia	337	↓2	8
25	Barbara	328	↑3	10
26	Marion	324	↓1	51
27	Theresa	314	↑4	52
28	Lillian	299	↓4	32
29	Grace	287	↓3	50
30	Ann	253	–	59
31	Lorraine	253	new	44
32	Joan	250	↑2	41
33	Dolores	249	↑7	34
34	Patricia	247	↑1	18
35	Lois	238	↑11	19
36	Jane	226	↓7	60
37	Louise	216	↓5	27
38	Rita	207	↓2	54
39	June	191	↓2	43
40	Anne	189	↓7	92
41	Phyllis	179	new	29
42	Ethel	178	↓1	47
43	Edith	176	↓5	48
44	Gertrude	169	↓1	78
45	Edna	167	–	40
46	Nancy	167	↓7	56
47	Eileen	160	–	91
48	Gladys	160	↓6	37
49	Marjorie	154	↓1	25
50	Claire	152	↓6	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	John	2,254	–	2
2	William	1,773	–	4
3	Robert	1,754	–	1
4	Joseph	1,467	–	9
5	James	1,082	↑1	3
6	George	1,056	↑1	7
7	Edward	1,020	↓2	10
8	Charles	981	–	5
9	Richard	816	↑1	6
10	Frank	797	↓1	12
11	Thomas	653	–	11
12	Walter	510	↑1	17
13	Donald	471	↑1	8
14	Anthony	445	↓2	43
15	Raymond	436	–	15
16	Arthur	375	–	22
17	Henry	373	↑2	19
18	Albert	369	↓1	23
19	Louis	364	↑2	29
20	Michael	346	↑2	52
21	Harry	345	↓3	25
22	Paul	330	↓2	13
23	Harold	314	–	14
24	Peter	283	–	59
25	Eugene	264	↑1	20
26	Francis	255	↑3	36
27	David	254	↓2	21
28	Vincent	240	↑4	77
29	Alfred	228	↓2	45
30	Fred	224	↓2	35
31	Ralph	224	–	24
32	Kenneth	215	↑2	18
33	Daniel	207	↑5	46
34	Jack	203	↑1	16
35	Howard	198	↓2	28
36	Stanley	191	↓6	44
37	Norman	177	↑7	39
38	Herbert	171	↑1	42
39	Theodore	171	↑1	62
40	Andrew	163	↓3	56
41	Frederick	163	–	64
42	Leonard	163	↓6	40
43	Lawrence	158	↓1	37
44	Samuel	154	↑3	49
45	Philip	142	↑3	75
46	Bernard	139	–	50
47	Salvatore	138	↑2	>100
48	Nicholas	130	↓5	>100
49	Carl	126	↑1	26
50	Ernest	125	↓5	41

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