Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1948

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,339
2	John	3,182
3	William	2,197
4	James	2,097
5	Richard	1,773
6	Thomas	1,662
7	Joseph	1,604
8	Michael	1,347
9	David	1,109
10	Charles	959
11	Edward	949
12	George	850
13	Ronald	832
14	Kenneth	742
15	Frank	703
16	Paul	661
17	Donald	640
18	Dennis	602
19	Peter	586
20	Anthony	563
21	Stephen	523
22	Bruce	519
23	Raymond	452
24	Gary	429
25	Walter	393

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Daniel	381
27	Steven	355
28	Lawrence	336
29	Alan	321
30	Louis	319
31	Mark	316
32	Gregory	315
33	Arthur	306
34	Jeffrey	298
35	Wayne	275
36	Douglas	274
37	Frederick	263
38	Harry	253
39	Albert	243
40	Vincent	236
41	Philip	234
42	Francis	227
43	Andrew	224
44	Gerald	219
45	Henry	216
46	Carl	212
47	Larry	211
48	Howard	204
48	Patrick	204
50	Stanley	197
51	Eugene	194
51	Russell	194
53	Ralph	193
54	Barry	192
55	Harold	183
56	Roger	178
57	Nicholas	174
58	Leonard	170
59	Kevin	167
60	Theodore	158
61	Glenn	155
62	Brian	154
63	Martin	146
64	Fred	144
65	Jack	143
66	Timothy	140
67	Craig	127
68	Alfred	124
69	Samuel	122
70	Allen	118
71	Christopher	116
72	Warren	104
73	Ernest	103
74	Roy	100
75	Norman	98
76	Bernard	94
76	Victor	94
78	Jerry	92
79	Eric	89
80	Allan	83
81	Herbert	82
82	Alexander	72
82	Terry	72
84	Salvatore	70
85	Lewis	68
86	Clifford	66
86	Gerard	66
86	Keith	66
86	Neil	66
90	Jay	65
91	Earl	63
91	Jerome	63
93	Benjamin	59
93	Marc	59
95	Edwin	58
95	Jonathan	58
95	Karl	58
95	Matthew	58
99	Joel	56
99	Jon	56