Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1951

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,435
2	John	3,169
3	James	2,226
4	William	2,167
5	Michael	1,892
6	Richard	1,880
7	Thomas	1,831
8	Joseph	1,658
9	David	1,277
10	Charles	994
10	Edward	994
12	Gary	923
13	George	796
14	Kenneth	773
15	Paul	747
16	Dennis	715
17	Donald	699
18	Ronald	696
19	Peter	662
20	Steven	635
21	Stephen	634
22	Frank	600
23	Bruce	596
24	Anthony	545
25	Mark	515

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Raymond	472
27	Daniel	455
28	Jeffrey	425
29	Gregory	398
30	Wayne	394
31	Lawrence	392
32	Douglas	367
32	Kevin	367
34	Walter	332
35	Arthur	308
36	Alan	301
37	Louis	286
38	Glenn	272
39	Frederick	256
40	Andrew	255
41	Francis	246
42	Philip	242
43	Albert	237
44	Patrick	231
45	Martin	229
45	Ralph	229
47	Harry	228
48	Vincent	226
49	Larry	224
50	Timothy	223
51	Nicholas	216
52	Carl	213
52	Gerald	213
52	Henry	213
55	Brian	211
56	Christopher	207
56	Eugene	207
58	Stanley	202
59	Howard	195
60	Russell	193
61	Roger	184
62	Barry	183
63	Craig	176
64	Leonard	172
64	Theodore	172
66	Harold	162
67	Scott	151
68	Samuel	141
69	Keith	134
70	Eric	132
71	Allen	121
72	Ernest	119
73	Alfred	117
74	Fred	113
75	Jack	112
76	Roy	111
77	Norman	108
78	Victor	100
79	Jerry	97
80	Warren	96
81	Neil	86
82	Jay	85
83	Clifford	84
84	Gerard	83
85	Bernard	80
86	Marc	78
87	Matthew	75
88	Jerome	74
88	Jonathan	74
90	Earl	72
91	Dean	70
91	Gordon	70
91	Herbert	70
91	Salvatore	70
95	Lee	69
96	Benjamin	65
97	Lewis	64
98	Alexander	63
98	Melvin	63
100	Edwin	61