Popular baby names in New Jersey, 2021
The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 2021 were Olivia for girls (551 babies) and Liam for boys (736). Social Security records list 76,979 babies born in New Jersey in 2021 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.
Names that stood out in New Jersey in 2021
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
- Leeba: 21 babies, 32.6× the national rate
- Nechama: 70 babies, 25× the national rate
- Yehudis: 56 babies, 23.1× the national rate
- Gittel: 27 babies, 22.9× the national rate
- Tzipora: 21 babies, 21× the national rate
- Rochel: 50 babies, 20.7× the national rate
- Tziporah: 25 babies, 20.5× the national rate
- Chava: 51 babies, 20.2× the national rate
- Ahuva: 32 babies, 20× the national rate
- Batsheva: 37 babies, 19.2× the national rate
Boys
- Avrohom: 64 babies, 24.9× the national rate
- Ahron: 27 babies, 24.3× the national rate
- Dovid: 82 babies, 23.9× the national rate
- Eliyahu: 57 babies, 19.8× the national rate
- Yaakov: 108 babies, 19.7× the national rate
- Yehoshua: 42 babies, 19.5× the national rate
- Shlomo: 89 babies, 18.9× the national rate
- Yehuda: 120 babies, 17.3× the national rate
- Tzvi: 75 babies, 16.9× the national rate
- Shmuel: 80 babies, 16.8× the national rate
Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 2021
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2020 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Olivia | 551 | – | 1 |
| 2 | Emma | 471 | ↑1 | 2 |
| 3 | Mia | 446 | ↑1 | 8 |
| 4 | Ava | 413 | ↑1 | 5 |
| 5 | Sophia | 398 | ↓3 | 6 |
| 6 | Isabella | 383 | ↑2 | 7 |
| 7 | Charlotte | 355 | ↓1 | 3 |
| 8 | Amelia | 343 | ↓1 | 4 |
| 9 | Gianna | 296 | – | 13 |
| 10 | Leah | 270 | ↑1 | 46 |
| 11 | Sofia | 265 | ↑1 | 18 |
| 12 | Luna | 263 | ↑2 | 11 |
| 13 | Madison | 234 | ↑3 | 29 |
| 14 | Emily | 225 | ↑5 | 21 |
| 15 | Abigail | 219 | ↓5 | 17 |
| 16 | Ella | 219 | ↓3 | 16 |
| 17 | Chloe | 216 | ↑7 | 25 |
| 18 | Mila | 202 | ↓3 | 26 |
| 19 | Esther | 197 | ↑9 | >100 |
| 20 | Layla | 194 | ↑19 | 24 |
| 21 | Camila | 193 | ↓3 | 12 |
| 22 | Sarah | 189 | ↑3 | 91 |
| 23 | Avery | 186 | ↓3 | 19 |
| 24 | Valentina | 186 | ↓7 | 69 |
| 25 | Zoe | 185 | ↓2 | 42 |
| 26 | Hannah | 180 | ↑17 | 44 |
| 27 | Riley | 180 | ↑4 | 37 |
| 28 | Scarlett | 179 | ↓7 | 20 |
| 29 | Emilia | 178 | ↓7 | 40 |
| 30 | Aria | 176 | – | 22 |
| 31 | Harper | 174 | ↑6 | 10 |
| 32 | Hailey | 171 | ↑3 | 77 |
| 33 | Eliana | 170 | ↓1 | 47 |
| 34 | Grace | 170 | ↓5 | 33 |
| 35 | Lily | 169 | ↓1 | 31 |
| 36 | Penelope | 169 | ↓10 | 23 |
| 37 | Sara | 168 | ↓1 | >100 |
| 38 | Victoria | 167 | ↓11 | 43 |
| 39 | Miriam | 160 | ↑1 | >100 |
| 40 | Nora | 157 | ↑5 | 27 |
| 41 | Maya | 152 | ↑1 | 55 |
| 42 | Stella | 148 | ↑6 | 41 |
| 43 | Gabriella | 144 | ↓2 | 83 |
| 44 | Elizabeth | 143 | ↓6 | 14 |
| 45 | Isla | 131 | new | 34 |
| 46 | Rachel | 130 | ↑3 | >100 |
| 47 | Savannah | 130 | new | 67 |
| 48 | Rivka | 127 | new | >100 |
| 49 | Zoey | 125 | new | 38 |
| 50 | Sienna | 124 | new | >100 |
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2020 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam | 736 | – | 1 |
| 2 | Noah | 637 | – | 2 |
| 3 | Lucas | 467 | – | 8 |
| 4 | Joseph | 411 | – | 28 |
| 5 | Michael | 381 | ↑1 | 17 |
| 6 | Benjamin | 375 | ↑1 | 7 |
| 7 | James | 372 | ↑2 | 5 |
| 8 | Jacob | 364 | ↓3 | 24 |
| 9 | Anthony | 340 | ↑8 | 43 |
| 10 | Ethan | 326 | ↑1 | 20 |
| 11 | Luca | 321 | ↑23 | 42 |
| 12 | Daniel | 319 | ↑2 | 16 |
| 13 | Logan | 315 | ↓3 | 21 |
| 14 | Dylan | 314 | ↓2 | 44 |
| 15 | Matthew | 308 | ↓7 | 36 |
| 16 | David | 299 | ↑6 | 30 |
| 17 | Mason | 299 | ↓2 | 18 |
| 18 | Jack | 295 | ↓2 | 11 |
| 19 | Alexander | 294 | ↓6 | 13 |
| 20 | Oliver | 282 | ↓1 | 3 |
| 21 | Leo | 263 | ↑6 | 31 |
| 22 | John | 258 | ↑3 | 27 |
| 23 | Aiden | 255 | ↑1 | 26 |
| 24 | Jayden | 254 | ↓6 | 41 |
| 25 | Nicholas | 250 | ↑1 | 92 |
| 26 | Sebastian | 249 | ↓5 | 19 |
| 27 | Luke | 247 | ↑1 | 32 |
| 28 | William | 241 | ↓8 | 6 |
| 29 | Gabriel | 235 | ↑7 | 38 |
| 30 | Nathan | 235 | ↑2 | 59 |
| 31 | Julian | 233 | ↑17 | 33 |
| 32 | Owen | 229 | ↑11 | 22 |
| 33 | Ryan | 225 | ↓10 | 66 |
| 34 | Theodore | 216 | ↑13 | 10 |
| 35 | Christopher | 213 | ↓4 | 52 |
| 36 | Henry | 213 | ↓3 | 9 |
| 37 | Samuel | 213 | ↓7 | 23 |
| 38 | Cameron | 212 | ↓9 | 62 |
| 39 | Jackson | 210 | ↑6 | 14 |
| 40 | Thomas | 206 | ↓5 | 46 |
| 41 | Elijah | 204 | ↓4 | 4 |
| 42 | Isaac | 202 | ↓3 | 40 |
| 43 | Joshua | 199 | ↓5 | 58 |
| 44 | Mateo | 190 | ↓4 | 15 |
| 45 | Aaron | 181 | ↑1 | 65 |
| 46 | Caleb | 181 | new | 51 |
| 47 | Carter | 176 | ↓5 | 39 |
| 48 | Asher | 172 | new | 25 |
| 49 | Andrew | 170 | ↓8 | 57 |
| 50 | Christian | 165 | new | 71 |
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