Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1928

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1928 were Mary for girls (1,522 babies) and John for boys (2,150). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 59,470 babies born in New Jersey in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1928

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

Philomena: 37 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Carmella: 61 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Carmela: 67 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Concetta: 49 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Angelina: 111 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Antoinette: 119 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Adele: 73 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Yolanda: 46 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Joseph: 18 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Claire: 166 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 50 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Rocco: 55 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Carmen: 61 babies, 7× the national rate
Patsy: 47 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Dominick: 72 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Carlo: 21 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Gabriel: 34 babies, 5× the national rate
Vito: 30 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Angelo: 96 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Nicholas: 140 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	1,522	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,118	–	3
3	Helen	890	–	4
4	Margaret	758	–	5
5	Doris	716	–	7
6	Ruth	665	↑1	6
7	Anna	626	↑3	16
8	Marie	618	↓2	21
9	Jean	613	–	12
10	Elizabeth	591	↓2	14
11	Betty	501	↑3	2
12	Eleanor	472	↑3	36
13	Rose	456	↓2	24
14	Gloria	417	↓2	25
15	Frances	415	↑3	13
16	Florence	402	↓3	32
17	Barbara	390	↑8	8
18	Catherine	380	↓2	33
19	Dolores	371	↑14	20
20	Irene	367	↓1	28
21	Joan	342	↑11	27
22	Marion	342	↑4	47
23	Patricia	330	↑11	11
24	Evelyn	329	↓4	17
25	Shirley	329	↓4	10
26	Alice	327	↓3	19
27	Mildred	324	↓5	15
28	Josephine	315	↓11	42
29	Virginia	289	↓5	9
30	Theresa	285	↓3	49
31	Lillian	279	↓3	35
32	Lorraine	273	↓1	39
33	Ann	272	↓3	54
34	Lois	251	↑1	18
35	Grace	248	↓6	52
36	Jane	228	–	62
37	Rita	216	↑1	57
38	Louise	213	↓1	31
39	June	198	–	44
40	Edith	185	↑3	56
41	Phyllis	183	–	26
42	Marilyn	177	new	38
43	Anne	175	↓3	93
44	Audrey	166	new	60
45	Claire	166	↑5	>100
46	Nancy	165	–	43
47	Eileen	162	–	>100
48	Elaine	158	new	68
49	Ethel	154	↓7	55
50	Marjorie	151	↓1	29

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	John	2,150	–	2
2	Robert	1,809	↑1	1
3	William	1,795	↓1	4
4	Joseph	1,426	–	9
5	James	1,030	–	3
6	Edward	977	↑1	10
7	Charles	963	↑1	5
8	George	951	↓2	8
9	Richard	885	–	6
10	Frank	734	–	12
11	Thomas	656	–	11
12	Donald	499	↑1	7
13	Anthony	446	↑1	44
14	Walter	443	↓2	18
15	Raymond	404	–	16
16	Albert	378	↑2	23
17	Arthur	353	↓1	22
18	Alfred	349	↑11	33
19	Harry	343	↑2	26
20	Michael	333	–	53
21	Henry	328	↓4	21
22	Paul	318	–	13
23	Harold	309	–	14
24	Louis	291	↓5	32
25	Eugene	269	–	20
26	Herbert	257	↑12	25
27	Peter	255	↓3	56
28	Francis	242	↓2	40
29	Kenneth	233	↑3	17
30	Ralph	233	↑1	24
31	David	230	↓4	19
32	Jack	220	↑2	15
33	Fred	214	↓3	36
34	Vincent	200	↓6	82
35	Stanley	196	↑1	45
36	Howard	190	↓1	31
37	Daniel	166	↓4	47
38	Lawrence	166	↑5	38
39	Leonard	161	↑3	42
40	Theodore	160	↓1	66
41	Andrew	155	↓1	60
42	Norman	153	↓5	39
43	Frederick	152	↓2	67
44	Philip	145	↑1	73
45	Carl	141	↑4	28
46	Nicholas	140	↑2	>100
47	Ernest	134	↑3	43
48	Samuel	131	↓4	52
49	Bernard	125	↓3	49
50	Martin	122	new	83

← New Jersey 1927 New Jersey: all years · US 1928 New Jersey 1929 →