Popular baby names in New Jersey, 2022
The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 2022 were Emma for girls (488 babies) and Liam for boys (758). Emma ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 77,439 babies born in New Jersey in 2022 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.
Names that stood out in New Jersey in 2022
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: 25 babies, 28.6× the national rate
- Rochel: 57 babies, 24× the national rate
- Yehudis: 58 babies, 23.3× the national rate
- Batsheva: 49 babies, 23× the national rate
- Nechama: 65 babies, 21× the national rate
- Faiga: 27 babies, 18.8× the national rate
- Ahuva: 32 babies, 18.6× the national rate
- Devora: 31 babies, 18× the national rate
- Bracha: 43 babies, 17.6× the national rate
- Rivka: 126 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Boys
- Ahron: 34 babies, 24.3× the national rate
- Avrohom: 52 babies, 24.2× the national rate
- Binyomin: 27 babies, 21.9× the national rate
- Yaakov: 103 babies, 21.6× the national rate
- Dovid: 75 babies, 20× the national rate
- Eliyahu: 62 babies, 19.4× the national rate
- Yehuda: 149 babies, 19.1× the national rate
- Shmuel: 112 babies, 19× the national rate
- Yehoshua: 32 babies, 18.3× the national rate
- Aryeh: 48 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 2022
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2021 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emma | 488 | ↑1 | 2 |
| 2 | Sophia | 427 | ↑3 | 5 |
| 3 | Mia | 422 | – | 8 |
| 4 | Olivia | 417 | ↓3 | 1 |
| 5 | Isabella | 401 | ↑1 | 6 |
| 6 | Charlotte | 359 | ↑1 | 3 |
| 7 | Amelia | 352 | ↑1 | 4 |
| 8 | Ava | 345 | ↓4 | 7 |
| 9 | Luna | 264 | ↑3 | 10 |
| 10 | Gianna | 261 | ↓1 | 22 |
| 11 | Sofia | 254 | – | 13 |
| 12 | Leah | 250 | ↓2 | 52 |
| 13 | Emily | 245 | ↑1 | 17 |
| 14 | Madison | 233 | ↓1 | 34 |
| 15 | Zoe | 228 | ↑10 | 38 |
| 16 | Chloe | 223 | ↑1 | 19 |
| 17 | Esther | 216 | ↑2 | >100 |
| 18 | Mila | 215 | – | 18 |
| 19 | Valentina | 215 | ↑5 | 57 |
| 20 | Abigail | 212 | ↓5 | 24 |
| 21 | Emilia | 209 | ↑8 | 44 |
| 22 | Scarlett | 201 | ↑6 | 14 |
| 23 | Sara | 197 | ↑14 | >100 |
| 24 | Camila | 194 | ↓3 | 12 |
| 25 | Hannah | 193 | ↑1 | 47 |
| 26 | Harper | 188 | ↑5 | 11 |
| 27 | Sarah | 187 | ↓5 | 95 |
| 28 | Lily | 185 | ↑7 | 30 |
| 29 | Penelope | 184 | ↑7 | 21 |
| 30 | Ella | 183 | ↓14 | 25 |
| 31 | Maya | 181 | ↑10 | 51 |
| 32 | Hailey | 175 | – | 79 |
| 33 | Layla | 175 | ↓13 | 29 |
| 34 | Miriam | 172 | ↑5 | >100 |
| 35 | Eliana | 171 | ↓2 | 41 |
| 36 | Grace | 171 | ↓2 | 35 |
| 37 | Nora | 167 | ↑3 | 28 |
| 38 | Aria | 166 | ↓8 | 23 |
| 39 | Evelyn | 165 | new | 9 |
| 40 | Avery | 164 | ↓17 | 26 |
| 41 | Victoria | 164 | ↓3 | 43 |
| 42 | Violet | 156 | new | 20 |
| 43 | Riley | 154 | ↓16 | 39 |
| 44 | Stella | 153 | ↓2 | 40 |
| 45 | Aurora | 152 | new | 31 |
| 46 | Rachel | 147 | – | >100 |
| 47 | Gabriella | 146 | ↓4 | 89 |
| 48 | Savannah | 143 | ↓1 | 76 |
| 49 | Chaya | 141 | new | >100 |
| 50 | Madelyn | 138 | new | 60 |
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2021 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam | 758 | – | 1 |
| 2 | Noah | 675 | – | 2 |
| 3 | Lucas | 421 | – | 8 |
| 4 | Joseph | 408 | – | 30 |
| 5 | Michael | 375 | – | 16 |
| 6 | Jacob | 365 | ↑2 | 32 |
| 7 | Ethan | 354 | ↑3 | 21 |
| 8 | James | 348 | ↓1 | 4 |
| 9 | Luca | 348 | ↑2 | 28 |
| 10 | Jack | 323 | ↑8 | 15 |
| 11 | Daniel | 316 | ↑1 | 14 |
| 12 | Anthony | 314 | ↓3 | 44 |
| 13 | Oliver | 311 | ↑7 | 3 |
| 14 | Benjamin | 309 | ↓8 | 9 |
| 15 | Matthew | 307 | – | 39 |
| 16 | Dylan | 305 | ↓2 | 42 |
| 17 | Alexander | 303 | ↑2 | 17 |
| 18 | Logan | 288 | ↓5 | 33 |
| 19 | David | 270 | ↓3 | 31 |
| 20 | John | 270 | ↑2 | 26 |
| 21 | Leo | 270 | – | 22 |
| 22 | Aiden | 265 | ↑1 | 29 |
| 23 | Mason | 261 | ↓6 | 24 |
| 24 | Jayden | 256 | – | 46 |
| 25 | Nathan | 252 | ↑5 | 57 |
| 26 | Theodore | 251 | ↑8 | 10 |
| 27 | Sebastian | 249 | ↓1 | 13 |
| 28 | William | 244 | – | 6 |
| 29 | Ryan | 242 | ↑4 | 74 |
| 30 | Nicholas | 231 | ↓5 | 97 |
| 31 | Christopher | 226 | ↑4 | 55 |
| 32 | Owen | 224 | – | 18 |
| 33 | Henry | 219 | ↑3 | 7 |
| 34 | Luke | 216 | ↓7 | 34 |
| 35 | Cameron | 215 | ↑3 | 64 |
| 36 | Thomas | 214 | ↑4 | 45 |
| 37 | Samuel | 212 | – | 19 |
| 38 | Gabriel | 206 | ↓9 | 36 |
| 39 | Jackson | 206 | – | 23 |
| 40 | Elijah | 203 | ↑1 | 5 |
| 41 | Isaac | 203 | ↑1 | 41 |
| 42 | Caleb | 198 | ↑4 | 52 |
| 43 | Aaron | 195 | ↑2 | 71 |
| 44 | Joshua | 194 | ↓1 | 60 |
| 45 | Mateo | 193 | ↓1 | 11 |
| 46 | Elias | 191 | new | 43 |
| 47 | Julian | 187 | ↓16 | 35 |
| 48 | Thiago | 185 | new | >100 |
| 49 | Ian | 179 | new | 72 |
| 50 | Carter | 165 | ↓3 | 47 |
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