Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1924

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,772
2	Dorothy	1,240
3	Helen	1,219
4	Margaret	981
5	Ruth	868
6	Anna	717
7	Marie	704
8	Elizabeth	676
9	Doris	657
10	Rose	584
11	Florence	558
12	Eleanor	473
13	Jean	458
13	Mildred	458
15	Catherine	451
16	Josephine	435
17	Evelyn	429
18	Frances	424
19	Gloria	393
20	Virginia	370
21	Alice	359
22	Betty	357
23	Lillian	355
24	Marion	354
25	Irene	337
26	Grace	320
27	Ann	301
28	Shirley	290
29	Jane	247
30	Anne	232
31	Barbara	227
32	Louise	225
33	Edith	211
34	Gladys	203
35	Edna	199
36	Theresa	184
37	Marjorie	183
38	Beatrice	180
38	Rita	180
40	Ethel	177
40	Gertrude	177
42	Jennie	172
43	Agnes	158
44	Antoinette	155
45	Julia	154
46	June	151
47	Elsie	150
48	Claire	148
48	Muriel	148
50	Katherine	143

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,383
2	William	1,781
3	Robert	1,644
4	Joseph	1,523
5	Edward	1,200
6	George	1,012
7	James	1,011
8	Charles	951
9	Frank	872
10	Thomas	601
11	Richard	573
12	Walter	538
13	Anthony	535
14	Albert	444
15	Harry	419
16	Raymond	415
17	Henry	392
18	Michael	382
19	Arthur	362
20	Harold	352
21	Louis	330
22	Donald	311
23	Paul	283
24	Peter	281
25	Stanley	267
26	Francis	258
27	Howard	250
28	Alfred	240
28	David	240
30	Fred	234
31	Ralph	232
32	Eugene	218
33	Daniel	215
34	Vincent	210
35	Kenneth	206
36	Jack	197
37	Andrew	195
38	Herbert	184
39	Samuel	178
40	Theodore	170
41	Nicholas	163
42	Bernard	161
42	Philip	161
44	Leonard	154
45	Ernest	150
46	Frederick	144
47	Lawrence	141
48	Norman	139
49	Russell	137
49	Stephen	137