Popular baby names in Arizona, 1916

The most popular baby names in Arizona in 1916 were Mary for girls (191 babies) and John for boys (109). Social Security records list 4,803 babies born in Arizona in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arizona in 1916

Names given at least 15 times in Arizona that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Lupe: 26 babies, 85.7× the national rate
Carmen: 44 babies, 38.2× the national rate
Antonia: 15 babies, 26.7× the national rate
Maria: 76 babies, 26.6× the national rate
Dolores: 19 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Anita: 16 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Eva: 35 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Juanita: 17 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Nellie: 23 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Lucy: 17 babies, 2.6× the national rate

Boys

Jesus: 40 babies, 54.1× the national rate
Alfredo: 17 babies, 50.5× the national rate
Francisco: 24 babies, 47.9× the national rate
Ramon: 29 babies, 46.6× the national rate
Pedro: 21 babies, 38.3× the national rate
Jose: 68 babies, 36.2× the national rate
Manuel: 96 babies, 33.4× the national rate
Alfonso: 18 babies, 31× the national rate
Juan: 26 babies, 28.1× the national rate
Antonio: 24 babies, 15.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arizona, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	191	–	1
2	Maria	76	↑3	>100
3	Helen	64	↓1	2
4	Dorothy	62	–	3
5	Margaret	55	↑2	4
6	Frances	51	↑5	9
7	Ruth	45	↓1	5
8	Carmen	44	↑2	>100
9	Virginia	43	↓6	10
10	Alice	39	↑5	13
11	Eva	35	↑2	55
12	Evelyn	35	↑37	11
13	Josephine	35	↑7	21
14	Louise	31	↑24	18
15	Mildred	30	↓6	6
16	Grace	28	↑27	26
17	Rose	27	↑15	15
18	Lupe	26	↓4	>100
19	Esther	25	↓1	34
20	Lillian	23	↑17	16
21	Marie	23	new	12
22	Nellie	23	↑17	61
23	Thelma	21	↓1	29
24	Elizabeth	20	↓16	8
25	Irene	20	↓6	17
26	Lucille	20	new	30
27	Dolores	19	↓15	>100
28	Hazel	19	new	31
29	Julia	18	–	46
30	Juanita	17	new	90
31	Katherine	17	↑4	51
32	Lucy	17	new	84
33	Anita	16	↓17	>100
34	Beatrice	16	new	38
35	Betty	16	↑7	44
36	Edith	16	↓15	28
37	Florence	16	↓10	14
38	Jennie	16	new	79
39	Antonia	15	new	>100
40	Eleanor	15	↓16	27
41	Adela	14	new	>100
42	Adelina	14	new	>100
43	Bertha	14	↓17	49
44	Elvira	14	new	>100
45	Ethel	14	new	25
46	Gertrude	14	new	35
47	Isabel	14	new	>100
48	Marjorie	14	↓4	37
49	Pauline	14	new	33
50	Barbara	13	new	74

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	109	–	1
2	Manuel	96	↑5	>100
3	William	92	↓1	2
4	Robert	87	↓1	4
5	Frank	80	↓1	9
6	Joe	77	↓1	35
7	James	75	↓1	3
8	Jose	68	–	>100
9	George	64	↑1	7
10	Charles	63	↓1	6
11	Edward	43	↑12	8
12	Albert	40	–	17
13	Jesus	40	↑20	>100
14	Henry	39	↓1	14
15	Arthur	33	↑10	18
16	David	30	↑6	28
17	Fred	29	↓2	29
18	Ramon	29	↑10	>100
19	Richard	29	↓1	15
20	Thomas	27	↑4	10
21	Ernest	26	↑9	36
22	Harry	26	↑5	19
23	Joseph	26	↓12	5
24	Juan	26	↓5	>100
25	Carl	25	↑6	23
26	Ralph	25	↓10	21
27	Antonio	24	↓10	>100
28	Francisco	24	↑9	>100
29	Eugene	22	↑20	39
30	Paul	22	↑4	12
31	Louis	21	↓11	22
32	Pedro	21	↑15	>100
33	Raymond	21	↓12	16
34	Jack	20	↓20	26
35	Alfonso	18	new	>100
36	Tony	18	new	>100
37	Alfredo	17	new	>100
38	Pete	17	new	>100
39	Alfred	16	↓10	43
40	Felix	16	new	>100
41	Kenneth	16	new	27
42	Mike	16	↓4	>100
43	Norman	16	new	48
44	Roy	16	↓5	33
45	Daniel	15	new	55
46	Donald	15	↓14	20
47	Harold	15	↓1	13
48	Clarence	14	new	24
49	Ray	14	↓14	73
50	Allen	13	new	>100

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