Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1917

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	2,015
2	Helen	1,536
3	Anna	993
4	Margaret	974
5	Dorothy	924
6	Elizabeth	705
7	Ruth	697
8	Rose	669
9	Marie	585
10	Mildred	518
11	Florence	509
12	Frances	495
13	Josephine	455
14	Catherine	451
15	Eleanor	433
16	Evelyn	392
17	Lillian	380
18	Alice	338
19	Grace	335
19	Jean	335
21	Ann	319
22	Doris	313
23	Anne	293
23	Virginia	293
25	Marion	274
26	Irene	268
27	Edith	253
28	Ethel	237
29	Julia	233
30	Louise	232
31	Gertrude	230
32	Edna	227
33	Katherine	206
34	Jennie	200
35	Stella	198
36	Agnes	190
37	Sophie	183
38	Beatrice	178
38	Gladys	178
40	Bertha	177
41	Theresa	167
42	Betty	166
43	Elsie	160
44	Pauline	158
45	Rita	157
46	Esther	143
47	Viola	138
48	Emily	137
49	Martha	136
50	Clara	135

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,351
2	Joseph	1,565
3	William	1,518
4	George	928
5	Frank	882
6	Edward	850
7	Charles	849
8	Robert	784
9	James	772
10	Walter	521
11	Anthony	518
12	Thomas	497
13	Michael	463
14	Louis	380
15	Albert	371
16	Harry	363
17	Henry	348
18	Stanley	323
19	Harold	314
20	Arthur	310
21	Richard	304
22	Paul	288
22	Peter	288
24	Raymond	254
25	Francis	253
26	Andrew	220
27	David	193
27	Fred	193
29	Vincent	190
30	Alfred	185
30	Frederick	185
32	Howard	178
32	Stephen	178
34	Theodore	168
35	Ralph	162
36	Samuel	161
37	Herbert	157
38	Donald	156
39	Daniel	148
40	Bernard	140
40	Nicholas	140
42	Chester	134
43	Philip	133
44	Eugene	125
45	Carl	123
46	Benjamin	119
46	Kenneth	119
48	Alexander	118
49	Lawrence	116
50	Ernest	114