Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,881
2	Helen	1,534
3	Anna	949
4	Dorothy	942
5	Margaret	893
6	Elizabeth	709
7	Ruth	701
8	Rose	619
9	Marie	543
10	Mildred	499
11	Florence	477
12	Catherine	466
13	Josephine	446
14	Frances	412
15	Eleanor	408
16	Lillian	385
17	Evelyn	370
18	Alice	325
19	Grace	321
20	Jean	318
21	Anne	307
22	Marion	278
23	Ann	269
24	Edith	268
25	Virginia	267
26	Doris	258
27	Irene	250
28	Gertrude	237
28	Julia	237
30	Stella	233
31	Ethel	223
32	Louise	205
33	Jennie	204
34	Edna	198
35	Sophie	192
36	Elsie	179
37	Katherine	177
38	Agnes	172
39	Betty	164
39	Gladys	164
41	Bertha	162
41	Theresa	162
43	Rita	157
44	Pauline	151
45	Beatrice	148
46	Sylvia	146
47	Emma	144
48	Ida	142
49	Marjorie	135
50	Esther	133

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,168
2	Joseph	1,483
3	William	1,391
4	George	842
5	Edward	837
6	Charles	827
7	Frank	774
8	Robert	738
9	James	736
10	Thomas	496
11	Walter	488
12	Michael	456
13	Anthony	413
14	Henry	359
15	Louis	345
16	Albert	334
17	Harry	332
18	Harold	300
19	Stanley	288
20	Peter	279
21	Paul	256
22	Arthur	255
22	Raymond	255
24	Alfred	229
25	Francis	221
25	Richard	221
27	Frederick	191
28	Andrew	188
29	Stephen	186
29	Vincent	186
31	Howard	165
32	Ralph	163
33	Samuel	160
34	Fred	148
34	Nicholas	148
36	Theodore	146
37	David	140
38	Daniel	132
39	Alexander	126
39	Carl	126
41	Herbert	124
42	Kenneth	119
43	Norman	118
44	Bernard	116
45	Ernest	111
46	Eugene	110
46	Philip	110
48	Donald	108
49	Lawrence	106
50	Leonard	104