What baby names are unique to New Jersey?

Alnisa is the name most distinctive to New Jersey, given about 25 times more often there than in the United States as a whole. Fuquan, Altariq and Ibn follow.

How is a distinctive name measured?

Each name's share of births in New Jersey is compared with its share nationally. The multiplier shown is the conservative low end of that ratio, so a name carried by a handful of births cannot outrank one carried by hundreds.

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Names unique to New Jersey

The most distinctive New Jersey baby names, 1910–2025

These are the names given far more often in New Jersey than anywhere else in the country, across the whole record from 1910 to 2025. Alnisa leads: it is given about 25× more often here than across the United States as a whole.

The multiplier compares each name's share of New Jersey births with its share nationally, and reports the conservative low end of that comparison — so a name carried by a handful of births cannot outrank one carried by hundreds.

Across the whole record, 1910–2025

#	Name	Births	vs national
1	Alnisa	205	25×
2	Fuquan	125	18×
3	Altariq	117	18×
4	Ibn	425	16×
5	Mariaeduard	11	16×
6	Shakeerah	52	16×
7	Hassana	27	16×
8	Leeba	215	15×
9	Avrohom	1,344	14×
10	Shaniquah	27	14×
11	Nosson	335	14×
12	Binyomin	514	14×
13	Batsheva	809	14×
14	Dovid	1,231	14×
15	Refoel	95	14×
16	Yehudis	864	13×
17	Hassanah	10	13×
18	Ahron	454	12×
19	Nechama	1,272	12×
20	Nochum	106	12×
21	Ahuva	609	12×
22	Rochel	1,228	11×
23	Yaakov	1,802	11×
24	Shmuel	1,770	11×
25	Tzvi	1,258	11×
26	Shakeemah	11	11×
27	Pinchos	131	11×
28	Brocha	269	11×
29	Eliyahu	1,072	11×
30	Alquan	55	11×
31	Yechezkel	268	11×
32	Yehuda	2,207	11×
33	Yehoshua	689	10×
34	Tzipora	382	10×
35	Bracha	704	10×
36	Basya	297	10×
37	Shulamis	80	10×
38	Yisroel	1,763	10×
39	Shlomo	1,471	10×
40	Yeshaya	231	9×

Right now, in 2025

A different list from the one above, and not a contradiction: these are the names distinctive to New Jersey in a single recent year rather than across the whole record.

Name	Births	vs national
Avrohom	60	27×
Binyomin	42	26×
Boruch	20	21×
Nosson	18	20×
Dovid	99	18×
Yechezkel	15	18×
Shulamis	14	18×
Yaakov	113	17×
Rochel	74	16×
Devora	44	16×

Decade by decade

The single most distinctive name of each decade.

Decade	Name	vs national
1910s	Garret	6×
1920s	Carmine	6×
1930s	Dominick	7×
1940s	Dominick	6×
1950s	Carmine	5×
1960s	Domenick	5×
1970s	Alnisa	24×
1980s	Alnisa	28×
1990s	Ibn	20×
2000s	Ibn	20×
2010s	Avrohom	22×
2020s	Avrohom	25×

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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org