Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1956

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,464
2	John	3,442
3	Michael	2,782
4	James	2,472
5	William	2,097
6	David	1,989
7	Thomas	1,985
8	Joseph	1,965
9	Richard	1,872
10	Mark	1,280
11	Edward	1,022
12	Paul	952
13	Steven	921
14	Kevin	916
15	Charles	907
16	Gary	906
17	Kenneth	849
18	Peter	813
19	Anthony	805
20	Jeffrey	779
21	George	749
22	Stephen	721
23	Donald	706
24	Ronald	681
25	Daniel	663

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Frank	641
27	Brian	637
28	Gregory	533
29	Raymond	499
30	Bruce	493
31	Douglas	439
32	Timothy	409
33	Keith	396
34	Dennis	390
35	Wayne	378
36	Glenn	361
37	Christopher	352
38	Scott	346
39	Lawrence	327
40	Patrick	314
41	Walter	312
42	Andrew	311
43	Louis	307
44	Alan	283
45	Arthur	279
46	Vincent	275
47	Carl	240
48	Barry	238
48	Philip	238
50	Francis	233
51	Larry	225
52	Frederick	218
53	Ralph	211
54	Albert	210
55	Russell	209
56	Craig	208
57	Martin	195
58	Gerald	194
59	Nicholas	188
60	Eugene	185
60	Harry	185
62	Henry	183
63	Matthew	170
64	Eric	163
65	Harold	159
66	Howard	158
67	Theodore	153
68	Stanley	152
69	Victor	150
70	Leonard	145
71	Samuel	142
72	Roger	132
73	Jonathan	130
74	Jack	123
75	Jerry	119
76	Alfred	117
76	Edwin	117
78	Gerard	116
78	Jay	116
80	Fred	115
81	Ernest	105
82	Allen	104
83	Roy	102
84	Marc	100
85	Glen	98
85	Lee	98
87	Randy	96
88	Guy	93
89	Norman	91
90	Herbert	87
91	Willie	84
92	Karl	83
92	Salvatore	83
94	Bernard	81
94	Warren	81
96	Jerome	80
97	Clifford	79
98	Benjamin	78
99	Steve	77
100	Jeffery	76
100	Neil	76