Popular baby names in Arizona, 1918

The most popular baby names in Arizona in 1918 were Mary for girls (272 babies) and John for boys (151). Social Security records list 6,385 babies born in Arizona in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arizona in 1918

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

Girls

Socorro: 17 babies, 133.9× the national rate
Lupe: 48 babies, 80.9× the national rate
Consuelo: 26 babies, 47.1× the national rate
Juana: 15 babies, 45.7× the national rate
Carmen: 77 babies, 43.8× the national rate
Manuela: 18 babies, 43.2× the national rate
Guadalupe: 17 babies, 25.9× the national rate
Maria: 97 babies, 22.8× the national rate
Antonia: 18 babies, 22.3× the national rate
Ramona: 15 babies, 15.2× the national rate

Boys

Francisco: 42 babies, 52.5× the national rate
Raul: 16 babies, 50.3× the national rate
Ramon: 35 babies, 44.5× the national rate
Jesus: 40 babies, 35.1× the national rate
Jose: 95 babies, 34.6× the national rate
Juan: 44 babies, 32.1× the national rate
Manuel: 114 babies, 27.6× the national rate
Pedro: 19 babies, 26.7× the national rate
Antonio: 40 babies, 21.6× the national rate
Alfonso: 16 babies, 21.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arizona, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	272	–	1
2	Maria	97	–	>100
3	Carmen	77	↑4	>100
4	Virginia	77	↑1	7
5	Margaret	72	↓2	4
6	Helen	67	↓2	2
7	Dorothy	61	↑2	3
8	Frances	60	–	8
9	Ruth	58	↓3	5
10	Alice	57	↑1	13
11	Lupe	48	↑11	>100
12	Josephine	46	↓2	24
13	Julia	35	↑4	48
14	Rose	35	↑20	17
15	Betty	32	↑3	21
16	Elizabeth	32	↓3	9
17	Eva	32	↑19	55
18	Dolores	31	↑2	>100
19	Eleanor	31	new	26
20	Nellie	29	↓5	65
21	Anita	27	↑9	>100
22	Louise	27	↑25	18
23	Mildred	27	↓11	6
24	Consuelo	26	↑11	>100
25	Dora	26	↑20	>100
26	Isabel	26	new	>100
27	Marjorie	26	new	34
28	Anna	25	↑3	10
29	Evelyn	24	↓13	11
30	Grace	24	↑3	31
31	Amelia	22	↑13	>100
32	Bertha	22	↓18	51
33	Martha	22	↓8	25
34	Sarah	22	new	52
35	Beatrice	21	↓16	40
36	Lucy	21	↓9	90
37	Barbara	20	↓11	60
38	Edna	20	↑8	23
39	Teresa	20	new	>100
40	Emma	19	↓12	46
41	Jennie	19	new	91
42	Lucille	19	new	29
43	Lydia	19	new	>100
44	Antonia	18	↓12	>100
45	Esther	18	↓21	38
46	Ethel	18	new	28
47	Irene	18	↓26	16
48	Manuela	18	new	>100
49	Marie	18	↓20	12
50	Rita	18	new	58

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	John	151	–	1
2	Robert	126	↑1	4
3	Manuel	114	↑1	>100
4	Frank	112	↑2	9
5	William	103	↓3	2
6	James	100	↑2	3
7	Jose	95	↓2	>100
8	Joe	81	↓1	34
9	George	74	–	6
10	Charles	69	–	5
11	Thomas	51	↑3	10
12	David	50	↑20	28
13	Albert	48	↓1	19
14	Henry	46	↑2	16
15	Richard	45	↑12	12
16	Juan	44	↑1	>100
17	Edward	43	↓4	8
18	Francisco	42	↑1	>100
19	Antonio	40	↓4	>100
20	Jesus	40	–	>100
21	Joseph	40	↓10	7
22	Jack	36	↓4	21
23	Ramon	35	↑6	>100
24	Raymond	35	↑6	15
25	Ernest	31	↓4	37
26	Alfred	27	↑9	42
27	Paul	27	↑1	14
28	Arthur	25	↓6	17
29	Walter	25	↓4	11
30	Harry	24	↑12	20
31	Carlos	23	↑10	>100
32	Lawrence	22	↓1	38
33	Kenneth	21	↑14	27
34	Louis	20	↓10	24
35	Gilbert	19	↑1	>100
36	Mike	19	↑1	>100
37	Pedro	19	↑6	>100
38	Ben	18	new	>100
39	Ralph	18	↓13	22
40	Roy	18	↓2	32
41	Victor	18	new	63
42	Eugene	17	new	35
43	Harold	17	↓9	13
44	Samuel	17	new	43
45	Tony	17	↓6	>100
46	Alfonso	16	new	>100
47	Pete	16	↓3	>100
48	Raul	16	new	>100
49	Ray	16	↓9	69
50	Tom	16	new	>100

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