Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1928

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	1,522
2	Dorothy	1,118
3	Helen	890
4	Margaret	758
5	Doris	716
6	Ruth	665
7	Anna	626
8	Marie	618
9	Jean	613
10	Elizabeth	591
11	Betty	501
12	Eleanor	472
13	Rose	456
14	Gloria	417
15	Frances	415
16	Florence	402
17	Barbara	390
18	Catherine	380
19	Dolores	371
20	Irene	367
21	Joan	342
21	Marion	342
23	Patricia	330
24	Evelyn	329
24	Shirley	329
26	Alice	327
27	Mildred	324
28	Josephine	315
29	Virginia	289
30	Theresa	285
31	Lillian	279
32	Lorraine	273
33	Ann	272
34	Lois	251
35	Grace	248
36	Jane	228
37	Rita	216
38	Louise	213
39	June	198
40	Edith	185
41	Phyllis	183
42	Marilyn	177
43	Anne	175
44	Audrey	166
44	Claire	166
46	Nancy	165
47	Eileen	162
48	Elaine	158
49	Ethel	154
50	Marjorie	151

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	2,150
2	Robert	1,809
3	William	1,795
4	Joseph	1,426
5	James	1,030
6	Edward	977
7	Charles	963
8	George	951
9	Richard	885
10	Frank	734
11	Thomas	656
12	Donald	499
13	Anthony	446
14	Walter	443
15	Raymond	404
16	Albert	378
17	Arthur	353
18	Alfred	349
19	Harry	343
20	Michael	333
21	Henry	328
22	Paul	318
23	Harold	309
24	Louis	291
25	Eugene	269
26	Herbert	257
27	Peter	255
28	Francis	242
29	Kenneth	233
29	Ralph	233
31	David	230
32	Jack	220
33	Fred	214
34	Vincent	200
35	Stanley	196
36	Howard	190
37	Daniel	166
37	Lawrence	166
39	Leonard	161
40	Theodore	160
41	Andrew	155
42	Norman	153
43	Frederick	152
44	Philip	145
45	Carl	141
46	Nicholas	140
47	Ernest	134
48	Samuel	131
49	Bernard	125
50	Martin	122