Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1957

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Robert	3,481
2	John	3,466
3	Michael	3,015
4	James	2,506
5	William	2,231
6	Thomas	1,999
7	David	1,979
8	Joseph	1,967
9	Richard	1,796
10	Mark	1,494
11	Kevin	974
12	Paul	965
13	Edward	948
14	Steven	946
15	Kenneth	919
16	Charles	900
17	Gary	826
18	Jeffrey	811
19	Anthony	792
20	Peter	773
21	Donald	767
22	Brian	760
23	George	750
24	Ronald	711
25	Daniel	710

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Stephen	707
27	Frank	662
28	Gregory	600
29	Raymond	497
30	Timothy	468
31	Bruce	453
32	Douglas	443
33	Scott	442
34	Keith	429
35	Christopher	390
36	Glenn	387
37	Wayne	383
38	Andrew	336
39	Lawrence	335
40	Dennis	313
40	Patrick	313
42	Vincent	303
43	Louis	300
44	Walter	299
45	Arthur	255
46	Alan	251
47	Philip	246
48	Larry	239
49	Eric	236
50	Carl	235
51	Albert	223
52	Russell	221
53	Martin	217
54	Barry	212
55	Craig	207
55	Harry	207
55	Ralph	207
58	Matthew	206
59	Eugene	199
60	Nicholas	193
61	Frederick	191
62	Gerald	179
63	Henry	178
63	Leonard	178
63	Stanley	178
66	Harold	174
67	Francis	168
68	Howard	149
68	Jerry	149
70	Theodore	145
71	Fred	140
72	Victor	137
73	Jack	136
74	Samuel	135
75	Alfred	134
75	Steve	134
77	Randy	132
78	Roy	129
79	Marc	127
80	Gerard	118
81	Jonathan	111
81	Roger	111
83	Jay	107
84	Allen	105
84	Bernard	105
84	Dean	105
87	Guy	103
88	Mike	100
89	Bill	98
90	Edwin	97
90	Ernest	97
90	Karl	97
93	Chris	94
94	Jeff	93
95	Glen	92
96	Clifford	89
96	Jerome	89
98	Tom	88
99	Joe	83
100	Warren	82