Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1935

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1935 were Joan for girls (1,242 babies) and Robert for boys (1,974). Joan ranked #7 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 47,932 babies born in New Jersey in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1935

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

Clare: 23 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Concetta: 26 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Carmella: 28 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Rosemarie: 102 babies, 5× the national rate
Angelina: 41 babies, 5× the national rate
Carmela: 26 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Adele: 34 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Antoinette: 56 babies, 4× the national rate
Veronica: 41 babies, 4× the national rate
Johanna: 24 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Boys

Carmen: 35 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Dominick: 44 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Carmine: 20 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Patsy: 18 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Vito: 19 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Rocco: 22 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Salvatore: 70 babies, 5× the national rate
Nicholas: 93 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Anthony: 374 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Vincent: 173 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Joan	1,242	–	7
2	Mary	1,038	–	1
3	Barbara	1,030	–	3
4	Patricia	726	–	5
5	Shirley	631	↑3	2
6	Dorothy	523	↓1	6
7	Margaret	511	↓1	8
8	Dolores	437	↑1	26
9	Marie	391	↑2	33
10	Jean	382	↓3	18
11	Carol	372	↑4	11
12	Elizabeth	357	–	17
13	Helen	350	↓3	10
14	Nancy	317	↑2	9
15	Ruth	310	↑5	15
16	Doris	304	↓3	13
17	Betty	289	↓3	4
18	Marilyn	280	↑7	14
19	Ann	271	↑2	30
20	Joyce	268	↑9	12
21	Frances	253	↑5	19
22	Lois	252	↑2	21
23	Rose	250	↓6	37
24	Janet	229	↓5	22
25	Anna	223	↓7	34
26	Virginia	223	↑4	16
27	Catherine	219	↑1	42
28	Alice	207	↑5	25
29	Eleanor	203	↓7	48
30	Elaine	200	↑1	51
31	Florence	194	↑1	74
32	Lorraine	190	↓5	68
33	Gloria	189	↓10	32
34	Theresa	187	↑7	86
35	June	183	↑9	55
36	Jane	182	↑1	43
37	Marion	170	↓3	88
38	Phyllis	169	–	27
39	Audrey	163	↑9	64
40	Evelyn	163	↓5	31
41	Judith	162	new	54
42	Eileen	156	↑5	>100
43	Irene	150	↓3	52
44	Anne	148	↓2	84
45	Josephine	148	↓9	75
46	Arlene	140	↓1	59
47	Carolyn	140	↑3	28
48	Grace	140	↑1	83
49	Lillian	137	↓10	66
50	Beverly	128	new	20

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Robert	1,974	–	1
2	John	1,845	–	3
3	William	1,331	–	4
4	Richard	1,064	↑2	5
5	Joseph	1,051	↓1	10
6	James	989	↓1	2
7	Charles	733	–	6
8	George	694	↑1	8
9	Donald	681	↓1	7
10	Edward	644	–	13
11	Thomas	603	–	9
12	Frank	550	–	16
13	Ronald	435	↑1	12
14	Anthony	374	↓1	52
15	David	346	↑2	11
16	Raymond	336	↓1	17
17	Paul	292	↑1	14
18	Walter	285	↑1	23
19	Michael	282	↓3	41
20	Arthur	281	↑2	29
21	Kenneth	262	↓1	15
22	Albert	247	↑1	31
23	Peter	239	↓2	59
24	Harry	232	↑2	37
25	Louis	225	–	42
26	Henry	207	↓2	27
27	Harold	202	↑1	20
28	Fred	193	↓1	34
29	Vincent	173	↑1	>100
30	Daniel	169	↑2	43
31	Eugene	169	↓2	26
32	Carl	163	↑8	28
33	Ralph	163	↑1	32
34	Francis	151	↓3	53
35	Lawrence	150	↓2	35
36	Jack	149	↑2	18
37	Alfred	148	↓2	63
38	Gerald	145	↓1	21
39	Howard	136	↓3	39
40	Stanley	135	↑2	56
41	Frederick	124	↓2	73
42	Philip	117	↑1	65
43	Martin	114	↑1	93
44	Herbert	111	↑2	58
45	Theodore	110	↑3	79
46	Leonard	102	↑1	54
47	Norman	102	↓6	38
48	Samuel	101	↑2	62
49	Roger	96	–	36
50	Stephen	95	new	>100

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