Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1923

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,786
2	Helen	1,271
3	Dorothy	1,200
4	Margaret	960
5	Ruth	836
6	Anna	732
7	Elizabeth	694
8	Marie	669
9	Doris	649
10	Rose	602
11	Florence	521
12	Catherine	489
13	Mildred	480
14	Jean	463
15	Josephine	456
16	Frances	449
17	Eleanor	436
18	Evelyn	434
19	Irene	386
20	Lillian	380
21	Virginia	352
22	Alice	349
23	Marion	344
24	Gloria	337
25	Grace	327
26	Betty	302
27	Ann	270
28	Anne	244
28	Shirley	244
30	Jane	230
31	Edith	226
32	Louise	224
33	Edna	189
34	Beatrice	185
35	Jennie	184
36	Theresa	182
37	Gladys	180
38	Gertrude	179
39	Barbara	177
40	Ethel	172
41	Julia	168
42	Rita	167
43	Marjorie	166
44	Muriel	164
45	Agnes	162
46	Antoinette	158
47	Katherine	151
48	Elsie	147
49	Stella	146
50	Charlotte	145

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,357
2	William	1,773
3	Joseph	1,581
4	Robert	1,475
5	Edward	1,159
6	James	1,008
7	George	988
8	Charles	915
9	Frank	891
10	Thomas	644
11	Richard	566
12	Walter	525
13	Anthony	495
14	Michael	412
15	Harry	404
16	Harold	389
17	Raymond	385
18	Albert	382
19	Arthur	371
20	Henry	356
20	Louis	356
22	Donald	318
23	Paul	301
24	David	254
25	Vincent	248
26	Francis	246
27	Alfred	245
27	Stanley	245
29	Peter	244
30	Fred	221
31	Kenneth	220
32	Ralph	209
33	Howard	202
34	Andrew	185
35	Eugene	175
36	Herbert	172
36	Nicholas	172
38	Jack	170
39	Theodore	169
40	Daniel	168
41	Samuel	161
42	Warren	158
43	Leonard	156
44	Frederick	151
45	Lawrence	144
46	Philip	130
47	Russell	125
48	Ernest	122
49	Salvatore	120
50	Bernard	118