Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1955

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,479
2	John	3,435
3	Michael	2,673
4	James	2,354
5	William	2,268
6	David	2,078
7	Richard	1,976
8	Thomas	1,972
9	Joseph	1,937
10	Mark	1,150
11	Edward	1,015
12	Gary	970
13	Paul	922
14	Kenneth	902
15	Charles	894
16	Jeffrey	878
17	Steven	862
18	Kevin	813
19	George	806
20	Peter	773
21	Stephen	744
22	Donald	731
23	Anthony	706
24	Frank	674
25	Daniel	653

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Ronald	608
27	Bruce	517
28	Raymond	514
29	Gregory	488
30	Brian	453
31	Dennis	433
32	Douglas	417
33	Wayne	393
34	Keith	382
35	Lawrence	377
36	Timothy	374
37	Glenn	361
38	Alan	332
39	Christopher	327
40	Walter	321
41	Scott	300
42	Louis	295
42	Patrick	295
44	Andrew	293
45	Arthur	287
46	Philip	264
47	Craig	251
48	Barry	242
49	Vincent	241
50	Ralph	235
51	Harry	225
52	Gerald	214
52	Russell	214
54	Larry	209
55	Francis	206
55	Frederick	206
57	Carl	197
58	Nicholas	195
59	Eugene	194
60	Henry	184
61	Albert	181
62	Eric	171
63	Howard	170
63	Martin	170
65	Harold	161
66	Theodore	158
67	Samuel	155
68	Stanley	150
69	Roger	149
70	Leonard	138
71	Alfred	126
72	Allen	124
73	Gerard	123
74	Matthew	119
75	Jonathan	118
76	Roy	114
77	Marc	113
78	Jerry	111
79	Fred	109
80	Jack	104
81	Randy	102
82	Ernest	100
82	Warren	100
84	Clifford	95
85	Jay	94
86	Bernard	93
87	Neil	92
88	Jerome	89
89	Victor	88
90	Edwin	87
91	Herbert	86
91	Norman	86
93	Salvatore	81
94	Terry	79
95	Guy	77
96	Allan	75
96	Curtis	75
98	Willie	74
99	Jeffery	73
100	Garry	72