Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1950

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,162
2	John	3,028
3	James	2,137
4	William	2,081
5	Richard	1,800
6	Thomas	1,756
7	Michael	1,682
8	Joseph	1,620
9	David	1,136
10	Charles	987
11	Edward	883
12	George	799
13	Kenneth	732
14	Gary	731
14	Ronald	731
16	Dennis	723
17	Paul	682
18	Donald	669
19	Frank	622
20	Peter	594
21	Stephen	552
22	Bruce	539
23	Anthony	523
24	Raymond	470
25	Daniel	452

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Steven	430
27	Mark	427
28	Lawrence	408
29	Gregory	397
30	Douglas	369
31	Jeffrey	362
32	Wayne	343
33	Alan	336
34	Walter	314
35	Kevin	287
36	Louis	280
37	Francis	274
38	Arthur	270
39	Glenn	251
40	Vincent	248
41	Andrew	243
42	Patrick	242
43	Albert	241
43	Philip	241
45	Frederick	229
46	Larry	225
47	Henry	210
48	Gerald	201
49	Carl	198
50	Ralph	197
51	Eugene	196
52	Barry	194
53	Harry	186
54	Brian	182
55	Christopher	181
56	Timothy	178
57	Howard	172
58	Leonard	167
59	Martin	165
60	Craig	156
60	Nicholas	156
62	Russell	154
63	Harold	152
64	Roger	151
65	Stanley	149
66	Alfred	133
67	Allen	122
68	Eric	118
69	Theodore	115
70	Ernest	111
71	Fred	102
71	Keith	102
73	Jack	100
73	Samuel	100
75	Warren	98
76	Jerry	86
76	Victor	86
78	Scott	85
79	Roy	81
80	Norman	80
81	Alexander	79
81	Jerome	79
83	Allan	75
83	Bernard	75
83	Clifford	75
83	Earl	75
87	Marc	72
88	Edwin	71
89	Gerard	70
89	Salvatore	70
91	Lee	69
91	Matthew	69
93	Neil	67
94	Jay	65
95	Jonathan	62
96	Stuart	59
97	Gordon	57
98	Gene	56
99	Herbert	54
100	Karl	53
100	Leon	53