Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1918

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,990
2	Helen	1,679
3	Dorothy	1,089
4	Margaret	1,028
5	Anna	962
6	Ruth	837
7	Elizabeth	713
8	Rose	629
9	Marie	609
10	Mildred	552
11	Frances	543
12	Florence	536
13	Eleanor	497
14	Catherine	492
15	Josephine	454
16	Lillian	424
17	Evelyn	414
18	Jean	394
19	Doris	390
20	Virginia	353
21	Alice	343
22	Grace	338
23	Anne	317
24	Ann	296
25	Irene	280
26	Marion	271
27	Edna	247
28	Edith	245
29	Ethel	240
30	Stella	234
31	Julia	233
32	Gertrude	225
33	Louise	213
34	Katherine	209
35	Jennie	202
36	Agnes	199
37	Rita	196
38	Theresa	193
39	Marjorie	190
40	Elsie	189
41	Beatrice	186
41	Gladys	186
43	Sophie	176
44	Betty	170
45	Bertha	153
45	Emma	153
45	Jane	153
48	Olga	152
49	Ida	144
50	Martha	143

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,377
2	Joseph	1,546
3	William	1,487
4	George	967
5	Edward	960
6	Robert	954
7	Charles	930
8	Frank	889
9	James	798
10	Walter	578
11	Thomas	522
12	Anthony	515
13	Michael	462
14	Louis	379
15	Harry	365
16	Henry	364
17	Albert	343
18	Harold	332
19	Arthur	324
20	Stanley	323
21	Raymond	309
22	Richard	291
23	Peter	288
24	Paul	271
25	Andrew	240
26	Alfred	212
26	Theodore	212
28	Vincent	210
29	Francis	205
29	Howard	205
31	Samuel	190
32	Frederick	183
33	Ralph	182
34	Nicholas	178
35	David	169
36	Fred	165
36	Herbert	165
38	Victor	156
39	Donald	151
40	Kenneth	150
41	Daniel	147
42	Philip	145
42	Stephen	145
44	Eugene	140
45	Carl	134
45	Ernest	134
47	Chester	133
48	Alexander	129
49	Jack	127
50	Bernard	125