Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1926

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,466
2	Dorothy	1,154
3	Helen	1,028
4	Margaret	880
5	Ruth	727
6	Doris	712
7	Marie	698
8	Anna	620
9	Elizabeth	590
10	Jean	559
11	Gloria	500
12	Rose	494
13	Eleanor	476
14	Florence	464
15	Betty	461
16	Frances	414
17	Catherine	394
18	Irene	379
19	Evelyn	378
20	Josephine	373
21	Mildred	366
22	Virginia	320
23	Alice	311
24	Lillian	310
25	Marion	307
26	Grace	291
27	Shirley	280
28	Barbara	270
29	Jane	268
30	Ann	264
31	Theresa	250
32	Louise	229
33	Anne	226
34	Joan	220
35	Patricia	200
36	Rita	188
37	June	184
38	Edith	176
38	Nancy	176
40	Dolores	175
41	Ethel	170
42	Gladys	167
43	Gertrude	166
44	Claire	164
45	Edna	158
45	Lois	158
47	Eileen	157
48	Marjorie	156
49	Charlotte	155
50	Antoinette	152

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,362
2	William	1,800
3	Robert	1,710
4	Joseph	1,515
5	Edward	1,066
6	James	1,046
7	George	983
8	Charles	939
9	Frank	862
10	Richard	754
11	Thomas	644
12	Anthony	527
13	Walter	513
14	Donald	432
14	Raymond	432
16	Arthur	383
17	Albert	382
18	Harry	363
19	Henry	360
20	Paul	342
21	Louis	341
22	Michael	336
23	Harold	335
24	Peter	301
25	David	268
26	Eugene	266
27	Alfred	264
28	Fred	254
29	Francis	249
30	Stanley	241
31	Ralph	235
32	Vincent	232
33	Howard	209
34	Kenneth	196
35	Jack	191
36	Leonard	185
37	Andrew	178
38	Daniel	174
39	Herbert	171
40	Theodore	167
41	Frederick	163
41	Lawrence	163
43	Nicholas	145
43	Norman	145
45	Ernest	144
46	Bernard	134
46	Samuel	134
48	Philip	130
49	Salvatore	124
50	Carl	123