Most popular boys’ names in New Jersey, 1959

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

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	3,344
2	Robert	3,124
3	Michael	3,086
4	James	2,448
5	David	2,216
6	William	2,074
7	Joseph	1,883
8	Thomas	1,864
9	Richard	1,772
10	Mark	1,554
11	Kevin	999
12	Steven	985
13	Paul	963
14	Edward	928
15	Kenneth	891
16	Charles	877
17	Anthony	875
18	Jeffrey	783
19	Brian	773
20	Peter	745
21	George	739
22	Frank	688
23	Daniel	654
24	Ronald	637
25	Donald	634

Rank	Name	Babies
26	Stephen	624
27	Gary	617
28	Timothy	616
29	Scott	596
30	Christopher	569
31	Gregory	496
32	Raymond	442
33	Bruce	399
34	Douglas	397
35	Keith	384
36	Eric	367
37	Patrick	358
38	Dennis	332
38	Glenn	332
40	Andrew	330
41	Wayne	306
42	Craig	291
43	Lawrence	287
44	Walter	284
45	Vincent	282
46	Louis	279
47	Matthew	259
48	Philip	248
49	Alan	247
50	Arthur	231
51	Carl	222
52	Barry	211
53	Russell	206
54	Francis	198
55	Harry	196
56	Albert	195
56	Frederick	195
58	Henry	193
59	Larry	192
60	Martin	188
61	Eugene	178
62	Ralph	173
63	Mike	172
64	Howard	168
65	Nicholas	153
66	Chris	152
67	Fred	146
68	Steve	145
69	Gerald	142
70	Harold	138
71	Edwin	137
71	Samuel	137
73	Stanley	136
74	Victor	133
75	Randy	131
76	Leonard	130
77	Jerry	124
78	Marc	122
79	Joe	120
80	Gerard	119
80	Jay	119
82	Bill	118
82	Jonathan	118
84	Alfred	117
85	Jim	114
86	Roy	113
87	Todd	111
88	Roger	108
88	Theodore	108
90	Jack	106
91	Ernest	100
91	Jeff	100
91	Tom	100
94	Allen	97
94	Jose	97
96	Jerome	95
97	Bernard	93
97	Dean	93
99	Darryl	91
100	Guy	90