Popular Names in New Jersey

Popular names in New Jersey for 2022 include Emma and Liam, which is the Number 1 choice for boys among the most popular baby names 2022. Emma is ranked Number 2 nationally.

However, many of the Top 10 New Jersey baby names are unique choices that rank lower on the national charts. For girls, this includes Gianna. On the boys' side, more than half of the Top 10 names are absent from the national Top 10: Joseph, Michael, Jacob, Ethan, Luca, and Jack.

New Jersey has particularly large Italian and Jewish populations, and many cultural names rank among the state's top names. Italian baby names that are more common than average in New Jersey include girl names Valentina, Alessia, and Francesca, and boy names Anthony, Lorenzo, and Dominic.

Disproportionately popular Jewish baby names include Miriam, Rivka, Chaya, and Malka for girls, and Yehuda, Moshe, Yosef, Yaakov, Shmuel, and Chaim for boys.

Several girl names that peaked in the '80s, '90s, and early 2000s still remain more popular in New Jersey, including Sara, Rachel, Julia, Alexandra, Samantha, Brianna, and Hailey.

To browse popular names lists from the US and around the world, visit our main Popular Names page. You might also want to browse Nameberry's real-time lists of Popular Girl Names 2022 and Popular Boy Names 2022.

For more local data, search the full lists of Popular Names by State.