Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1954

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,533
2	John	3,416
3	Michael	2,493
4	James	2,301
5	William	2,239
6	Thomas	2,046
7	Richard	1,951
8	Joseph	1,839
9	David	1,817
10	Gary	1,103
11	Edward	1,023
12	Charles	961
13	Mark	959
14	Steven	893
15	Paul	868
16	George	817
17	Kenneth	796
18	Kevin	763
19	Donald	741
20	Stephen	735
21	Peter	710
22	Ronald	689
23	Anthony	682
24	Jeffrey	671
25	Frank	659

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Daniel	619
27	Bruce	562
28	Raymond	511
29	Gregory	474
30	Dennis	459
31	Douglas	409
32	Lawrence	399
33	Wayne	386
34	Brian	361
35	Glenn	359
36	Louis	325
37	Walter	319
38	Alan	308
39	Patrick	303
40	Timothy	298
41	Andrew	282
42	Philip	267
43	Barry	260
44	Arthur	258
45	Frederick	255
46	Scott	254
47	Christopher	248
48	Craig	244
49	Francis	241
50	Keith	240
51	Vincent	238
52	Albert	236
53	Ralph	233
54	Gerald	222
55	Harry	220
56	Carl	217
57	Henry	210
58	Russell	208
59	Nicholas	200
60	Eugene	195
61	Larry	190
62	Leonard	187
63	Howard	177
64	Stanley	173
65	Martin	171
66	Roger	164
67	Theodore	158
68	Eric	150
69	Matthew	148
70	Harold	138
71	Fred	130
72	Ernest	129
73	Samuel	128
74	Alfred	123
75	Jack	121
76	Gerard	117
76	Roy	117
78	Warren	111
79	Jonathan	110
80	Allen	105
81	Guy	102
81	Marc	102
83	Victor	98
84	Jay	94
84	Neil	94
84	Randy	94
87	Bernard	91
87	Jerry	91
89	Norman	86
90	Jerome	84
91	Clifford	80
91	Lee	80
93	Dean	77
94	Herbert	76
95	Edwin	75
95	Kurt	75
97	Glen	72
98	Terry	71
99	Alexander	68
99	Benjamin	68
99	Leon	68
99	Salvatore	68