Name Yearbook

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1938

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Barbara	1,443
2	Mary	1,002
3	Patricia	960
4	Joan	881
5	Carol	653
6	Margaret	530
7	Elizabeth	432
8	Dorothy	427
9	Nancy	424
10	Joyce	342
11	Judith	329
12	Marie	322
13	Helen	313
14	Janet	292
15	Jean	291
16	Shirley	280
17	Dolores	275
18	Ruth	270
19	Betty	267
20	Frances	262
21	Ann	255
22	Elaine	254
23	Marilyn	243
24	Doris	231
25	Sandra	229
26	Arlene	227
27	Rose	222
28	Virginia	218
29	Lois	215
30	Catherine	208
30	Phyllis	208
32	Gail	200
33	Eleanor	199
34	Carole	189
35	Carolyn	188
36	Beverly	185
37	Lorraine	178
38	Alice	176
39	Anna	173
40	Kathleen	171
41	Jane	166
42	Gloria	158
43	Theresa	156
44	Eileen	150
45	Diane	147
46	Florence	143
47	Evelyn	134
48	Marion	126
48	Rita	126
50	Anne	125

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,185
2	John	1,794
3	William	1,387
4	Richard	1,070
5	Joseph	1,061
6	James	1,035
7	Charles	773
8	Thomas	707
9	George	675
10	Edward	664
11	Donald	583
12	Frank	547
13	Ronald	525
14	David	471
15	Michael	444
16	Anthony	416
17	Raymond	366
18	Peter	317
19	Paul	314
20	Kenneth	300
21	Walter	294
22	Arthur	271
23	Louis	224
24	Albert	208
25	Fred	194
26	Daniel	193
27	Henry	183
28	Harry	172
29	Carl	166
30	Harold	164
31	Eugene	163
32	Vincent	160
33	Francis	158
34	Ralph	154
35	Gerald	151
36	Stephen	146
37	Howard	145
38	Lawrence	141
39	Philip	131
40	Alfred	126
40	Frederick	126
42	Stanley	122
43	Martin	121
44	Leonard	119
45	Theodore	117
46	Bruce	115
47	Roger	113
48	Jack	111
49	Andrew	105
50	Norman	103