Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1936

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Joan	1,083
2	Barbara	1,073
3	Mary	964
4	Patricia	810
5	Dorothy	507
6	Margaret	505
7	Carol	453
8	Nancy	410
9	Shirley	401
10	Elizabeth	389
11	Dolores	387
12	Marie	376
13	Jean	359
14	Helen	337
15	Marilyn	311
16	Janet	288
17	Joyce	285
18	Ann	270
18	Ruth	270
20	Doris	252
21	Catherine	249
22	Frances	248
23	Rose	243
24	Anna	235
24	Virginia	235
26	Betty	228
27	Eleanor	225
28	Lois	219
29	Elaine	215
30	Alice	201
31	Gloria	191
32	Jane	189
33	Arlene	185
34	Lorraine	179
35	Phyllis	176
36	Josephine	164
36	Marion	164
38	Evelyn	162
38	Theresa	162
40	Judith	159
41	Florence	149
42	Carolyn	148
42	Irene	148
44	Eileen	146
44	Gail	146
46	Geraldine	139
47	Anne	136
47	Grace	136
47	Sandra	136
50	Kathleen	133

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,032
2	John	1,807
3	William	1,313
4	Joseph	1,051
5	Richard	1,046
6	James	938
7	Donald	688
8	George	671
9	Charles	666
10	Edward	653
11	Thomas	629
12	Frank	502
13	Ronald	469
14	David	449
15	Anthony	389
16	Michael	328
17	Walter	310
18	Raymond	296
19	Peter	273
20	Arthur	270
21	Paul	264
22	Kenneth	249
23	Harry	217
24	Henry	213
25	Albert	208
26	Louis	193
27	Fred	175
28	Eugene	174
29	Harold	164
30	Daniel	163
31	Alfred	155
32	Francis	148
33	Lawrence	147
34	Ralph	146
35	Gerald	141
36	Carl	138
37	Vincent	137
38	Frederick	135
39	Howard	132
40	Jack	123
41	Roger	122
42	Stanley	116
43	Philip	114
44	Andrew	113
45	Norman	112
46	Leonard	109
47	Stephen	106
48	Martin	102
49	Theodore	96
50	Bernard	95