Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1933

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1933 were Joan for girls (1,342 babies) and John for boys (1,904). Joan ranked #5 nationally for girls. John ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 48,640 babies born in New Jersey in 1933 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1933

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

Carmella: 39 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Carmela: 41 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Concetta: 26 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Angelina: 48 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Antoinette: 65 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Claire: 122 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Rosemarie: 76 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Regina: 53 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Angela: 46 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Valerie: 23 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Boys

Dominick: 59 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Carmen: 50 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Rocco: 31 babies, 6× the national rate
Pasquale: 17 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Patsy: 21 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Carmine: 17 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Carlo: 15 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Nicholas: 109 babies, 5× the national rate
Salvatore: 79 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Gabriel: 21 babies, 4.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1933

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	Joan	1,342	–	5
2	Mary	1,143	–	1
3	Barbara	840	–	3
4	Dorothy	647	–	4
5	Patricia	558	↑2	6
6	Margaret	549	↓1	7
7	Jean	476	↑2	14
8	Dolores	469	↓2	21
9	Helen	450	↓1	8
10	Elizabeth	426	–	17
11	Doris	423	↑1	10
12	Marie	417	↓1	33
13	Ruth	356	–	13
14	Betty	355	–	2
15	Nancy	342	↑4	11
16	Rose	315	↓1	35
17	Anna	301	↓1	29
18	Ann	285	↑2	34
19	Catherine	285	↑2	44
20	Eleanor	283	↑2	38
21	Joyce	279	↑6	12
22	Carol	266	↑18	20
23	Lois	262	↑3	19
24	Janet	261	↑4	25
25	Marilyn	260	↓8	16
26	Shirley	247	↓1	9
27	Frances	245	↓3	18
28	Gloria	235	↓10	31
29	Lorraine	231	↑4	54
30	Florence	226	↓7	49
31	Virginia	206	↑3	15
32	Jane	193	↑10	47
33	Theresa	192	↑5	70
34	Alice	188	↓5	22
35	Elaine	188	↑10	61
36	Evelyn	186	↓5	30
37	Irene	179	↓7	46
38	Marion	178	↓6	73
39	Phyllis	178	–	28
40	June	177	↑3	45
41	Josephine	175	↓6	62
42	Grace	173	↑4	69
43	Mildred	161	↓6	32
44	Lillian	160	↓3	51
45	Anne	152	↓9	85
46	Geraldine	150	new	42
47	Audrey	143	↑2	59
48	Louise	136	new	39
49	Kathleen	126	new	77
50	Arlene	122	new	74

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1932	US rank
1	John	1,904	↑1	3
2	Robert	1,877	↓1	1
3	William	1,345	–	4
4	Joseph	1,151	–	9
5	Richard	1,043	–	5
6	James	959	–	2
7	Charles	763	–	6
8	George	732	–	8
9	Donald	680	↑1	7
10	Edward	652	↓1	11
11	Frank	605	–	16
12	Thomas	588	–	10
13	Anthony	391	–	46
14	Raymond	370	↑2	19
15	Ronald	358	–	12
16	Walter	328	↓2	21
17	David	294	↑7	13
18	Arthur	292	↑4	25
19	Michael	271	↓2	53
20	Albert	269	↓2	30
21	Kenneth	265	–	15
22	Paul	262	↑1	14
23	Peter	248	↑3	60
24	Henry	226	↑1	24
25	Louis	213	↓6	40
26	Harry	210	↓6	35
27	Eugene	200	↑1	23
28	Harold	197	↓1	18
29	Fred	195	↑2	34
30	Vincent	179	↓1	94
31	Francis	161	↑1	45
32	Ralph	156	↑2	29
33	Herbert	151	↑9	49
34	Alfred	146	↓4	57
35	Daniel	146	↑3	42
36	Jack	144	↓3	17
37	Howard	142	↓1	36
38	Philip	132	↑9	70
39	Gerald	128	↑2	22
40	Lawrence	128	↓1	38
41	Norman	128	↑2	37
42	Theodore	121	↑3	68
43	Carl	119	↓6	28
44	Samuel	118	↑4	61
45	Frederick	117	↓5	78
46	Stanley	117	↓11	55
47	Leonard	110	new	47
48	Andrew	109	↓2	76
49	Nicholas	109	new	>100
50	Ernest	99	↓1	50

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