Name Yearbook Worksheets

Top baby names in New Jersey, 1940

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Barbara	1,391
2	Patricia	1,179
3	Mary	1,013
4	Joan	795
5	Carol	769
6	Judith	692
7	Margaret	485
8	Joyce	439
9	Dorothy	430
10	Nancy	420
11	Elizabeth	413
12	Marie	336
13	Jean	313
14	Janet	281
15	Linda	280
16	Sandra	271
17	Ruth	267
18	Frances	264
18	Susan	264
20	Helen	263
21	Ann	257
22	Kathleen	249
23	Elaine	244
24	Carolyn	243
25	Virginia	240
26	Lois	225
27	Betty	222
27	Catherine	222
27	Marilyn	222
30	Gail	219
31	Arlene	210
32	Beverly	203
33	Shirley	198
34	Dolores	196
35	Rose	192
36	Diane	190
36	Phyllis	190
38	Carole	186
39	Doris	174
40	Anna	173
41	Gloria	170
42	Eleanor	169
43	Geraldine	167
44	Alice	162
45	Lorraine	156
46	Jane	151
47	Janice	149
47	Maryann	149
49	Joanne	144
49	Judy	144

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,169
2	John	2,090
3	William	1,469
4	Richard	1,257
5	James	1,134
6	Joseph	1,106
7	Thomas	844
8	Charles	765
9	George	681
10	Edward	671
11	Frank	574
12	David	546
13	Michael	533
14	Ronald	503
15	Donald	490
16	Anthony	408
17	Peter	360
18	Paul	357
19	Raymond	334
20	Kenneth	317
21	Walter	310
22	Arthur	242
23	Louis	217
24	Henry	213
25	Albert	211
26	Harry	210
27	Gerald	203
28	Daniel	189
29	Fred	181
30	Stephen	180
31	Lawrence	178
32	Carl	174
33	Bruce	169
34	Harold	164
35	Vincent	162
36	Frederick	161
37	Ralph	157
38	Eugene	155
39	Francis	152
40	Howard	150
41	Dennis	148
42	Philip	139
43	Roger	134
44	Alfred	132
45	Stanley	131
46	Andrew	115
46	Martin	115
48	Nicholas	112
48	Theodore	112
50	Gary	108