Popular baby names in Arizona, 1917

The most popular baby names in Arizona in 1917 were Mary for girls (218 babies) and John for boys (131). Social Security records list 5,514 babies born in Arizona in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arizona in 1917

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: 25 babies, 58.4× the national rate
Consuelo: 19 babies, 41.1× the national rate
Carmen: 56 babies, 38.4× the national rate
Guadalupe: 19 babies, 37.7× the national rate
Maria: 122 babies, 32.5× the national rate
Antonia: 20 babies, 29× the national rate
Celia: 18 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Dolores: 25 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Amelia: 17 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Victoria: 19 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Boys

Enrique: 15 babies, 69.7× the national rate
Francisco: 34 babies, 51.5× the national rate
Ramon: 26 babies, 42.1× the national rate
Jose: 96 babies, 41.2× the national rate
Jesus: 34 babies, 40.4× the national rate
Juan: 37 babies, 31.2× the national rate
Manuel: 98 babies, 29.1× the national rate
Pedro: 16 babies, 23.8× the national rate
Antonio: 38 babies, 22.6× the national rate
Carlos: 16 babies, 18.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arizona, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	218	–	1
2	Maria	122	–	>100
3	Margaret	76	↑2	4
4	Helen	74	↓1	2
5	Virginia	63	↑4	10
6	Ruth	60	↑1	5
7	Carmen	56	↑1	>100
8	Frances	55	↓2	9
9	Dorothy	50	↓5	3
10	Josephine	44	↑3	21
11	Alice	39	↓1	13
12	Mildred	33	↑3	6
13	Elizabeth	32	↑11	8
14	Bertha	30	↑29	51
15	Nellie	30	↑7	64
16	Evelyn	29	↓4	11
17	Julia	28	↑12	47
18	Betty	27	↑17	34
19	Beatrice	25	↑15	39
20	Dolores	25	↑7	>100
21	Irene	25	↑4	17
22	Lupe	25	↓4	>100
23	Jessie	24	new	70
24	Esther	23	↓5	38
25	Martha	23	new	22
26	Barbara	22	↑24	67
27	Lucy	22	↑5	88
28	Emma	21	new	46
29	Marie	21	↓8	12
30	Anita	20	↑3	>100
31	Anna	20	new	7
32	Antonia	20	↑7	>100
33	Grace	20	↓17	30
34	Rose	20	↓17	16
35	Consuelo	19	new	>100
36	Eva	19	↓25	54
37	Gladys	19	new	23
38	Guadalupe	19	new	>100
39	Hazel	19	↓11	31
40	Lillian	19	↓20	15
41	Victoria	19	new	>100
42	Celia	18	new	>100
43	Pauline	18	↑6	33
44	Amelia	17	new	>100
45	Dora	17	new	>100
46	Edna	17	new	20
47	Louise	16	↓33	19
48	Rosa	16	new	>100
49	Annie	15	new	35
50	Jean	15	new	40

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	John	131	–	1
2	William	102	↑1	2
3	Robert	99	↑1	4
4	Manuel	98	↓2	>100
5	Jose	96	↑3	>100
6	Frank	91	↓1	9
7	Joe	81	↓1	35
8	James	78	↓1	3
9	George	72	–	6
10	Charles	54	–	7
11	Joseph	48	↑12	5
12	Albert	45	–	18
13	Edward	42	↓2	8
14	Thomas	39	↑6	10
15	Antonio	38	↑12	>100
16	Henry	38	↓2	15
17	Juan	37	↑7	>100
18	Jack	36	↑16	22
19	Francisco	34	↑9	>100
20	Jesus	34	↓7	>100
21	Ernest	33	–	37
22	Arthur	31	↓7	17
23	Fred	31	↓6	29
24	Louis	29	↑7	23
25	Walter	29	new	11
26	Ralph	28	–	21
27	Richard	28	↓8	14
28	Paul	26	↑2	13
29	Ramon	26	↓11	>100
30	Raymond	25	↑3	16
31	Lawrence	22	new	36
32	David	21	↓16	28
33	Donald	21	↑13	20
34	Harold	21	↑13	12
35	Alfred	19	↑4	43
36	Gilbert	18	new	>100
37	Mike	18	↑5	>100
38	Roy	18	↑6	33
39	Tony	18	↓3	>100
40	Ray	17	↑9	74
41	Carlos	16	new	>100
42	Harry	16	↓20	19
43	Pedro	16	↓11	>100
44	Pete	16	↓6	>100
45	Daniel	15	–	54
46	Enrique	15	new	>100
47	Kenneth	15	↓6	27
48	Martin	15	new	77
49	Benjamin	14	new	76
50	Francis	14	new	30

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