Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1921

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,922
2	Helen	1,420
3	Dorothy	1,165
4	Margaret	1,062
5	Anna	852
6	Ruth	839
7	Elizabeth	735
8	Rose	685
9	Marie	629
10	Doris	602
11	Josephine	532
12	Florence	531
13	Mildred	505
14	Frances	473
15	Eleanor	470
16	Catherine	444
17	Jean	403
18	Evelyn	398
19	Virginia	374
20	Alice	362
21	Lillian	357
22	Grace	320
23	Marion	315
24	Irene	313
25	Ann	267
26	Anne	249
27	Betty	239
28	Edith	235
28	Louise	235
30	Marjorie	225
31	Ethel	216
32	Edna	209
33	Jennie	206
33	Shirley	206
35	Julia	199
36	Jane	195
37	Beatrice	193
37	Gertrude	193
39	Agnes	191
40	Stella	188
41	Katherine	181
42	Elsie	176
43	Rita	164
43	Theresa	164
45	Gladys	158
45	Sophie	158
47	Barbara	154
48	Gloria	153
49	Muriel	151
50	Olga	145

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,417
2	William	1,716
3	Joseph	1,580
4	Robert	1,321
5	Edward	1,088
6	George	1,011
7	Charles	996
8	James	959
9	Frank	862
10	Walter	605
11	Thomas	578
12	Anthony	538
13	Michael	461
14	Richard	436
15	Albert	384
16	Harry	379
17	Arthur	376
18	Raymond	374
19	Harold	365
20	Henry	356
21	Louis	355
22	Peter	342
23	Stanley	299
24	Paul	286
25	Donald	261
26	Alfred	255
27	Warren	232
28	Vincent	231
29	Francis	219
30	Ralph	207
31	Fred	199
32	Frederick	194
33	Theodore	193
34	Howard	190
35	Jack	189
36	Daniel	188
37	Kenneth	186
38	David	181
38	Samuel	181
40	Andrew	174
40	Herbert	174
42	Bernard	161
43	Eugene	159
44	Leonard	152
45	Nicholas	151
46	Stephen	148
47	Norman	147
48	Ernest	144
49	Philip	143
50	Lawrence	137