Popular baby names in New Jersey, 2024

The most popular baby names in New Jersey in 2024 were Mia for girls (469 babies) and Liam for boys (774). Mia ranked #5 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 76,208 babies born in New Jersey in 2024 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Jersey in 2024

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

Shulamis: 19 babies, 28.3× the national rate
Yehudis: 72 babies, 26.6× the national rate
Ahuva: 60 babies, 24.6× the national rate
Rochel: 66 babies, 24.4× the national rate
Leeba: 19 babies, 23.6× the national rate
Nechama: 70 babies, 23.2× the national rate
Tzipora: 28 babies, 22.7× the national rate
Batsheva: 44 babies, 21.6× the national rate
Yocheved: 37 babies, 21.5× the national rate
Shoshana: 53 babies, 20.9× the national rate

Boys

Avrohom: 67 babies, 28.6× the national rate
Dovid: 77 babies, 22× the national rate
Binyomin: 37 babies, 21.6× the national rate
Ahron: 24 babies, 21.6× the national rate
Yeshaya: 21 babies, 20.6× the national rate
Shmuel: 110 babies, 20.3× the national rate
Yaakov: 102 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Tzvi: 79 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Yehoshua: 31 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Aryeh: 60 babies, 17.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Jersey, 2024

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 2023	US rank
1	Mia	469	↑2	5
2	Sophia	465	↑2	6
3	Emma	456	↓1	2
4	Olivia	419	↓3	1
5	Charlotte	386	↑1	4
6	Amelia	376	↑2	3
7	Isabella	375	↓2	7
8	Sofia	291	↑3	10
9	Leah	280	↑1	53
10	Ava	269	↓3	9
11	Zoe	260	↑4	29
12	Esther	232	↑11	>100
13	Luna	228	↑3	13
14	Chloe	221	–	20
15	Valentina	216	↓2	47
16	Gianna	212	↓4	23
17	Madison	205	↓8	45
18	Mila	199	↑2	33
19	Emily	196	↓2	25
20	Harper	194	↑4	12
21	Miriam	188	↑5	>100
22	Camila	182	↓1	11
23	Lily	178	↓5	24
24	Rachel	177	↑20	>100
25	Aria	173	↑9	26
26	Ella	172	↓4	30
27	Eliana	171	↑11	18
28	Grace	171	↑3	40
29	Scarlett	169	↓2	27
30	Sara	166	↑7	>100
31	Violet	165	↑9	15
32	Abigail	164	↓7	32
33	Penelope	164	↓1	28
34	Nora	161	↓1	22
35	Rivka	158	new	>100
36	Hannah	157	↓1	52
37	Layla	156	↓18	37
38	Riley	156	↑1	42
39	Stella	151	↑9	49
40	Victoria	151	↑1	48
41	Isla	150	new	35
42	Maya	150	↑1	51
43	Avery	149	↓15	31
44	Sarah	149	↓14	93
45	Emilia	146	↓16	43
46	Chaya	141	↑4	>100
47	Hailey	141	↓1	100
48	Aurora	139	↓12	16
49	Elizabeth	138	new	17
50	Evelyn	137	↓5	8

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 2023	US rank
1	Liam	774	–	1
2	Noah	718	–	2
3	Lucas	429	–	9
4	Joseph	348	–	32
5	Michael	340	–	18
6	Ethan	339	↑4	19
7	Luca	338	↑2	23
8	Anthony	334	↑6	44
9	James	333	↓3	5
10	Oliver	309	↑6	3
11	Jack	308	↓4	15
12	Benjamin	303	–	11
13	Dylan	299	–	28
14	Logan	297	↑4	45
15	Theodore	288	↑5	4
16	David	287	↑6	31
17	Daniel	284	↓2	16
18	Jacob	280	↓10	40
19	Matthew	280	↓8	33
20	Mateo	260	↑8	7
21	Leo	259	↓4	24
22	Sebastian	255	↑1	14
23	Cameron	241	↑1	66
24	Henry	240	↑8	6
25	Thiago	234	↑6	55
26	John	231	↓1	21
27	Aiden	225	↑2	47
28	Jayden	225	↑2	59
29	Elijah	219	↑14	8
30	Isaac	216	↑3	41
31	William	214	↑7	10
32	Owen	213	↓6	26
33	Alexander	212	↓14	27
34	Asher	206	↑14	20
35	Julian	201	↑6	30
36	Thomas	200	↓9	39
37	Mason	197	↓16	42
38	Levi	195	↑11	12
39	Joshua	192	↑8	57
40	Gabriel	191	↓6	43
41	Nathan	189	↓5	62
42	Nicholas	189	↑2	>100
43	Samuel	187	↓3	17
44	Christopher	184	↓7	61
45	Caleb	177	new	49
46	Luke	177	↓7	34
47	Moshe	177	↓1	>100
48	Ryan	176	↓13	87
49	Miles	175	↓4	37
50	Elias	172	new	25

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