Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1952

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,466
2	John	3,306
3	William	2,217
4	James	2,196
5	Michael	2,126
6	Richard	2,109
7	Thomas	1,908
8	Joseph	1,732
9	David	1,540
10	Gary	1,001
11	Charles	968
12	Edward	963
13	George	801
14	Kenneth	799
15	Paul	772
16	Stephen	686
17	Donald	684
18	Dennis	668
19	Steven	667
20	Ronald	655
21	Bruce	649
22	Peter	635
23	Anthony	627
24	Frank	619
25	Mark	594

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Daniel	579
27	Raymond	488
28	Jeffrey	483
29	Kevin	471
30	Gregory	437
31	Douglas	398
32	Lawrence	394
33	Walter	368
34	Wayne	353
35	Alan	319
36	Glenn	294
37	Arthur	283
38	Louis	277
39	Barry	271
39	Brian	271
41	Andrew	269
42	Patrick	264
43	Christopher	263
44	Frederick	260
45	Vincent	256
46	Carl	252
47	Francis	250
48	Keith	242
49	Timothy	233
50	Henry	230
51	Harry	225
52	Eugene	221
53	Ralph	218
54	Craig	205
55	Albert	204
55	Gerald	204
57	Philip	198
58	Russell	187
59	Leonard	185
60	Martin	183
61	Roger	181
62	Larry	175
63	Harold	170
64	Stanley	167
65	Nicholas	166
66	Howard	159
67	Eric	157
68	Scott	154
69	Theodore	144
70	Samuel	127
71	Alfred	123
71	Jack	123
73	Warren	120
74	Allen	114
75	Matthew	112
76	Fred	107
77	Jay	100
78	Ernest	99
79	Norman	96
79	Roy	96
81	Victor	95
82	Gerard	93
82	Jerry	93
84	Clifford	91
84	Neil	91
86	Bernard	88
87	Alexander	83
88	Herbert	82
89	Jerome	78
89	Lee	78
91	Benjamin	73
92	Gordon	72
92	Marc	72
94	Jonathan	68
95	Guy	66
96	Dean	65
96	Randy	65
98	Edwin	64
98	Terry	64
100	Salvatore	63