Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1927

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,568
2	Dorothy	1,196
3	Helen	994
4	Margaret	865
5	Doris	798
6	Marie	710
7	Ruth	688
8	Elizabeth	649
9	Jean	634
10	Anna	593
11	Rose	516
12	Gloria	482
13	Florence	476
14	Betty	461
15	Eleanor	442
16	Catherine	410
17	Josephine	379
18	Frances	378
19	Irene	370
20	Evelyn	365
21	Shirley	350
22	Mildred	346
23	Alice	338
24	Virginia	337
25	Barbara	328
26	Marion	324
27	Theresa	314
28	Lillian	299
29	Grace	287
30	Ann	253
30	Lorraine	253
32	Joan	250
33	Dolores	249
34	Patricia	247
35	Lois	238
36	Jane	226
37	Louise	216
38	Rita	207
39	June	191
40	Anne	189
41	Phyllis	179
42	Ethel	178
43	Edith	176
44	Gertrude	169
45	Edna	167
45	Nancy	167
47	Eileen	160
47	Gladys	160
49	Marjorie	154
50	Claire	152

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,254
2	William	1,773
3	Robert	1,754
4	Joseph	1,467
5	James	1,082
6	George	1,056
7	Edward	1,020
8	Charles	981
9	Richard	816
10	Frank	797
11	Thomas	653
12	Walter	510
13	Donald	471
14	Anthony	445
15	Raymond	436
16	Arthur	375
17	Henry	373
18	Albert	369
19	Louis	364
20	Michael	346
21	Harry	345
22	Paul	330
23	Harold	314
24	Peter	283
25	Eugene	264
26	Francis	255
27	David	254
28	Vincent	240
29	Alfred	228
30	Fred	224
30	Ralph	224
32	Kenneth	215
33	Daniel	207
34	Jack	203
35	Howard	198
36	Stanley	191
37	Norman	177
38	Herbert	171
38	Theodore	171
40	Andrew	163
40	Frederick	163
40	Leonard	163
43	Lawrence	158
44	Samuel	154
45	Philip	142
46	Bernard	139
47	Salvatore	138
48	Nicholas	130
49	Carl	126
50	Ernest	125