Popular baby names in New Jersey, 1939

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 1939 were Barbara for girls (1,411 babies) and Robert for boys (2,195). Barbara ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 50,620 babies born in New Jersey in 1939 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 1939

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: 22 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Concetta: 19 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Carmela: 22 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Maryann: 120 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Veronica: 49 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Camille: 31 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Adele: 29 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Angela: 67 babies, 4× the national rate
Rosemarie: 89 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Marylou: 26 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Dominick: 48 babies, 9× the national rate
Carmine: 19 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Pasquale: 16 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Vito: 19 babies, 6× the national rate
Rocco: 17 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Carmen: 24 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Nicholas: 119 babies, 5× the national rate
Salvatore: 59 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Angelo: 43 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Gerard: 52 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 1939

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Barbara	1,411	–	2
2	Patricia	1,084	↑1	3
3	Mary	1,010	↓1	1
4	Joan	873	–	11
5	Carol	715	–	6
6	Judith	538	↑5	8
7	Margaret	537	↓1	10
8	Dorothy	443	–	9
9	Nancy	436	–	7
10	Elizabeth	405	↓3	18
11	Joyce	377	↓1	12
12	Marie	340	–	37
13	Helen	303	–	16
14	Janet	287	–	17
15	Betty	285	↑4	4
16	Jean	275	↓1	32
17	Ann	261	↑4	33
18	Elaine	258	↑4	45
19	Frances	257	↑1	26
20	Ruth	254	↓2	22
21	Marilyn	252	↑2	19
22	Dolores	242	↓5	58
23	Arlene	236	↑3	69
24	Virginia	234	↑4	21
25	Catherine	224	↑5	49
26	Phyllis	220	↑5	30
27	Beverly	212	↑9	25
28	Gail	211	↑4	73
29	Doris	208	↓5	29
30	Sandra	202	↓5	13
31	Shirley	200	↓15	5
32	Lois	199	↓3	35
33	Rose	196	↓6	42
34	Carolyn	192	↑1	14
35	Kathleen	188	↑5	48
36	Carole	176	↓2	47
37	Susan	176	new	44
38	Geraldine	168	new	41
39	Eleanor	167	↓6	63
40	Lorraine	162	↓3	95
41	Alice	160	↓3	31
42	Theresa	157	↑1	94
43	Jane	154	↓2	46
44	Diane	153	↑1	51
45	Anna	147	↓6	43
46	Eileen	147	↓2	>100
47	Linda	139	new	15
48	Josephine	137	new	84
49	Gloria	131	↓7	36
50	Anne	124	–	85

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1938	US rank
1	Robert	2,195	–	1
2	John	1,887	–	3
3	William	1,437	–	4
4	Richard	1,210	–	5
5	Joseph	1,044	–	12
6	James	1,037	–	2
7	Thomas	761	↑1	9
8	Charles	699	↓1	6
9	George	665	–	11
10	Edward	656	–	15
11	Donald	548	–	8
12	Frank	547	–	20
13	Ronald	515	–	10
14	David	514	–	7
15	Michael	423	–	18
16	Anthony	375	–	48
17	Raymond	344	–	22
18	Paul	318	↑1	17
19	Peter	314	↓1	46
20	Kenneth	312	–	13
21	Walter	281	–	25
22	Arthur	236	–	32
23	Louis	233	–	49
24	Albert	220	–	41
25	Henry	202	↑2	31
26	Harry	199	↑2	45
27	Gerald	180	↑8	19
28	Lawrence	170	↑10	36
29	Stephen	166	↑7	65
30	Harold	165	–	23
31	Daniel	160	↓5	38
32	Francis	160	↑1	53
33	Ralph	157	↑1	35
34	Fred	155	↓9	40
35	Eugene	153	↓4	37
36	Vincent	153	↓4	>100
37	Howard	147	–	47
38	Frederick	145	↑3	71
39	Alfred	144	↑1	70
40	Bruce	137	↑6	64
41	Philip	135	↓2	66
42	Carl	132	↓13	30
43	Jack	122	↑5	26
44	Stanley	121	↓2	57
45	Nicholas	119	new	>100
46	Roger	117	↑1	28
47	Leonard	113	↓3	54
48	Martin	113	↓5	91
49	Alan	112	new	85
50	Dennis	108	new	34

← New Jersey 1938 New Jersey: all years · US 1939 New Jersey 1940 →