Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1937

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Barbara	1,261
2	Mary	1,057
3	Joan	1,016
4	Patricia	897
5	Carol	607
6	Margaret	543
7	Dorothy	466
8	Elizabeth	401
9	Nancy	379
10	Jean	342
10	Marie	342
12	Dolores	330
13	Helen	316
14	Shirley	310
15	Janet	289
16	Joyce	284
17	Ruth	268
18	Frances	266
19	Lois	263
20	Betty	252
21	Ann	249
22	Marilyn	248
23	Doris	242
24	Elaine	229
25	Virginia	223
26	Eleanor	218
27	Rose	206
28	Phyllis	203
29	Judith	201
30	Anna	198
30	Catherine	198
32	Arlene	193
33	Alice	184
34	Lorraine	178
35	Beverly	174
35	Sandra	174
37	Gloria	160
38	Jane	159
39	Gail	153
40	Carolyn	152
40	Florence	152
42	Carole	146
43	Eileen	142
44	Theresa	139
45	Irene	138
45	Josephine	138
47	Kathleen	137
48	Evelyn	133
49	Marion	132
50	Lillian	129

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,167
2	John	1,834
3	William	1,323
4	Joseph	1,072
5	Richard	1,059
6	James	926
7	George	741
8	Charles	708
9	Thomas	698
10	Edward	687
11	Donald	624
12	Frank	538
13	David	466
14	Ronald	428
15	Anthony	354
16	Michael	324
17	Paul	318
18	Walter	307
19	Raymond	288
20	Kenneth	266
21	Peter	261
22	Arthur	243
23	Harry	222
24	Albert	220
25	Louis	209
26	Fred	194
27	Harold	192
28	Henry	190
29	Vincent	173
30	Eugene	159
30	Ralph	159
32	Daniel	153
33	Gerald	152
34	Carl	149
35	Jack	147
36	Lawrence	139
37	Frederick	133
37	Howard	133
39	Stanley	126
40	Francis	117
41	Philip	114
42	Andrew	112
43	Norman	110
44	Roger	109
44	Stephen	109
44	Theodore	109
47	Martin	107
48	Alfred	105
49	Leonard	104
50	Samuel	103