Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1929

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1929 were Mary for girls (1,399 babies) and John for boys (2,268). John ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 58,111 babies born in New Jersey in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1929

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: 19 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Carmela: 70 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Carmella: 53 babies, 5× the national rate
Philomena: 29 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Antoinette: 115 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Johanna: 28 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Concetta: 37 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Angelina: 86 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Yolanda: 35 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Clare: 20 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Carmine: 36 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Dominick: 91 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Patsy: 39 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Rocco: 41 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Carmen: 40 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Gabriel: 32 babies, 5× the national rate
Angelo: 102 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Salvatore: 106 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Nicholas: 131 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Vito: 26 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	1,399	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,005	–	3
3	Doris	762	↑2	6
4	Helen	749	↓1	4
5	Margaret	708	↓1	5
6	Marie	666	↑2	22
7	Joan	621	↑14	13
8	Jean	587	↑1	12
9	Ruth	567	↓3	8
10	Elizabeth	554	–	15
11	Dolores	546	↑8	14
12	Anna	516	↓5	20
13	Barbara	488	↑4	7
14	Betty	484	↓3	2
15	Rose	432	↓2	26
16	Gloria	402	↓2	28
17	Florence	393	↓1	35
18	Frances	380	↓3	16
19	Patricia	369	↑4	10
20	Eleanor	368	↓8	38
21	Catherine	344	↓3	34
22	Shirley	326	↑3	9
23	Alice	321	↑3	21
24	Josephine	320	↑4	45
25	Virginia	320	↑4	11
26	Theresa	312	↑4	49
27	Ann	297	↑6	46
28	Irene	294	↓8	29
29	Evelyn	289	↓5	19
30	Mildred	287	↓3	18
31	Lorraine	274	↑1	42
32	Lois	273	↑2	17
33	Marion	256	↓11	53
34	Nancy	234	↑12	32
35	Lillian	229	↓4	40
36	Grace	223	↓1	54
37	Phyllis	208	↑4	24
38	Marilyn	194	↑4	33
39	Anne	191	↑4	91
40	Jane	189	↓4	62
41	Rita	185	↓4	52
42	Louise	182	↓4	31
43	June	178	↓4	48
44	Audrey	175	–	58
45	Joyce	171	new	23
46	Elaine	167	↑2	67
47	Edith	165	↓7	59
48	Edna	150	new	51
49	Claire	148	↓4	>100
50	Janet	146	new	82

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	John	2,268	–	3
2	Robert	1,831	–	1
3	William	1,678	–	4
4	Joseph	1,366	–	9
5	James	1,054	–	2
6	Richard	963	↑3	6
7	Charles	940	–	5
8	George	914	–	8
9	Edward	911	↓3	10
10	Frank	727	–	12
11	Thomas	630	–	11
12	Donald	598	–	7
13	Anthony	486	–	44
14	Raymond	435	↑1	15
15	Walter	424	↓1	19
16	Albert	368	–	24
17	Louis	331	↑7	32
18	Arthur	328	↓1	22
19	Michael	323	↑1	54
20	Paul	321	↑2	13
21	Harry	315	↓2	27
22	Henry	310	↓1	21
23	Harold	283	–	16
24	David	280	↑7	17
25	Eugene	261	–	20
26	Herbert	252	–	25
27	Peter	248	–	55
28	Alfred	243	↓10	41
29	Vincent	233	↑5	82
30	Fred	230	↑3	34
31	Ralph	230	↓1	26
32	Kenneth	216	↓3	18
33	Francis	213	↓5	39
34	Howard	202	↑2	31
35	Stanley	191	–	48
36	Daniel	167	↑1	47
37	Samuel	163	↑11	53
38	Jack	155	↓6	14
39	Norman	155	↑3	40
40	Ernest	154	↑7	43
41	Bernard	151	↑8	52
42	Theodore	145	↓2	65
43	Frederick	144	–	67
44	Andrew	142	↓3	59
45	Leonard	140	↓6	42
46	Carl	135	↓1	28
47	Nicholas	131	↓1	>100
48	Martin	130	↑2	83
49	Philip	129	↓5	76
50	Lawrence	126	↓12	38

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