Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1912

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,024
2	Helen	722
3	Anna	532
4	Margaret	489
5	Dorothy	444
6	Elizabeth	439
7	Rose	308
8	Ruth	305
9	Marie	280
10	Mildred	267
11	Florence	265
12	Catherine	241
13	Frances	224
14	Lillian	191
15	Alice	188
16	Eleanor	182
17	Josephine	171
18	Evelyn	154
19	Marion	152
20	Gertrude	146
21	Jean	142
22	Anne	131
23	Grace	128
24	Ann	125
25	Edna	124
26	Ethel	119
27	Beatrice	117
28	Edith	116
29	Julia	115
30	Louise	106
31	Ida	104
32	Irene	98
33	Agnes	96
34	Jennie	92
34	Katherine	92
34	Theresa	92
37	Emma	90
38	Bertha	85
39	Virginia	83
40	Elsie	81
40	Gladys	81
42	Kathryn	79
43	Betty	77
44	Sarah	76
45	Sophie	75
46	Stella	74
47	Doris	73
47	Esther	73
49	Hazel	71
50	Viola	68

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	1,020
2	Joseph	720
3	William	707
4	George	466
5	Charles	453
6	Edward	378
7	James	377
8	Frank	375
9	Robert	271
10	Thomas	265
11	Walter	252
12	Anthony	227
13	Michael	222
14	Albert	200
15	Harry	184
16	Louis	178
17	Arthur	162
18	Henry	154
19	Harold	144
20	Peter	140
21	Raymond	121
21	Stanley	121
23	Francis	119
24	Alfred	113
25	Richard	112
26	Paul	104
27	Samuel	98
28	Frederick	97
29	Stephen	95
30	Fred	93
30	Ralph	93
32	David	90
33	Andrew	89
33	Howard	89
35	Vincent	86
36	Nicholas	77
37	Philip	74
38	Alexander	71
38	Herbert	71
40	Carl	66
40	Daniel	66
42	Benjamin	65
43	Ernest	59
43	Herman	59
43	Jack	59
43	Theodore	59
47	Donald	57
47	Eugene	57
49	Irving	55
50	Lawrence	54