Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1943

Official counts of babies given each name, ranked by NameTides (names with the same count share a rank).

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	2,812
2	John	2,767
3	William	1,992
4	Richard	1,770
5	James	1,708
6	Joseph	1,476
7	Thomas	1,199
8	Charles	974
9	George	925
10	Edward	890
11	Ronald	883
12	Michael	830
13	David	760
14	Frank	700
15	Donald	626
16	Kenneth	536
17	Anthony	512
18	Raymond	489
19	Peter	487
20	Paul	471
21	Walter	405
22	Dennis	360
23	Arthur	338
24	Stephen	315
25	Gerald	287

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Daniel	279
27	Louis	272
28	Albert	263
29	Lawrence	259
30	Harry	255
31	Gary	242
32	Henry	240
33	Bruce	236
34	Fred	222
35	Vincent	219
36	Eugene	213
37	Carl	205
38	Howard	203
38	Roger	203
40	Frederick	201
41	Ralph	197
42	Alan	195
43	Harold	190
44	Leonard	189
45	Douglas	186
46	Philip	179
47	Francis	177
48	Stanley	168
49	Barry	166
50	Alfred	162
51	Andrew	156
52	Wayne	147
53	Martin	142
54	Nicholas	140
55	Steven	137
56	Theodore	134
57	Patrick	130
58	Jack	129
59	Russell	128
60	Norman	126
61	Samuel	122
62	Jeffrey	111
63	Allen	105
64	Herbert	100
65	Ernest	99
66	Bernard	96
66	Roy	96
68	Larry	94
69	Victor	93
70	Edwin	88
71	Warren	86
72	Salvatore	85
73	Brian	81
74	Jerry	79
75	Clifford	69
76	Allan	68
77	Joel	65
78	Mark	64
79	Alexander	63
79	Benjamin	63
81	Timothy	62
82	Earl	61
82	Jay	61
82	Lewis	61
85	Gordon	60
86	Jerome	59
86	Leroy	59
88	Leon	56
88	Steve	56
90	Dominick	53
91	Eric	52
91	Stuart	52
93	Gerard	51
94	Harvey	50
95	Clarence	49
95	Gregory	49
97	Chester	48
98	Glenn	47
99	Neil	45
100	Christopher	43
100	Edmund	43
100	Kevin	43
100	Leslie	43