Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1947

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,670
2	John	3,567
3	William	2,507
4	James	2,241
5	Richard	2,043
6	Joseph	1,849
7	Thomas	1,744
8	Michael	1,494
9	David	1,114
10	Edward	1,055
11	Charles	1,011
12	George	1,010
13	Ronald	903
14	Frank	824
15	Kenneth	815
16	Paul	759
17	Donald	693
18	Dennis	624
19	Anthony	619
20	Peter	599
21	Raymond	561
22	Bruce	501
23	Walter	468
24	Stephen	467
25	Gary	442

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Daniel	417
27	Gregory	382
28	Lawrence	360
29	Alan	359
30	Louis	358
31	Arthur	351
32	Wayne	340
33	Jeffrey	308
33	Steven	308
35	Harry	296
36	Douglas	291
37	Vincent	277
38	Philip	269
39	Albert	266
40	Frederick	259
41	Mark	257
42	Carl	253
43	Andrew	250
44	Barry	245
44	Harold	245
46	Gerald	244
47	Henry	234
48	Ralph	229
49	Patrick	222
50	Eugene	221
51	Howard	220
52	Larry	217
53	Francis	216
54	Roger	214
55	Glenn	210
56	Fred	204
57	Leonard	191
58	Martin	185
59	Stanley	181
60	Jack	172
61	Russell	170
62	Nicholas	169
63	Brian	165
64	Alfred	160
65	Theodore	155
66	Craig	140
67	Samuel	129
68	Timothy	123
69	Ernest	117
70	Norman	116
71	Roy	113
72	Allen	111
73	Jerry	103
73	Warren	103
75	Clifford	101
76	Allan	98
76	Christopher	98
78	Victor	97
79	Eric	95
80	Bernard	94
81	Steve	83
82	Kevin	81
83	Edwin	78
84	Herbert	77
85	Alexander	76
85	Stuart	76
87	Gerard	75
88	Jay	74
89	Lee	72
89	Lewis	72
91	Keith	70
92	Salvatore	69
93	Marc	68
94	Matthew	67
95	Jerome	66
96	Gordon	65
97	Joel	64
98	Chester	62
99	Arnold	61
99	Clarence	61