Popular baby names in Arizona, 1921

The most popular baby names in Arizona in 1921 were Mary for girls (266 babies) and John for boys (149). Social Security records list 6,930 babies born in Arizona in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arizona in 1921

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: 30 babies, 112.9× the national rate
Lupe: 43 babies, 49.8× the national rate
Antonia: 28 babies, 29× the national rate
Manuela: 16 babies, 28.4× the national rate
Carmen: 59 babies, 26.6× the national rate
Consuelo: 18 babies, 25.4× the national rate
Aurora: 20 babies, 21.3× the national rate
Ramona: 22 babies, 19.7× the national rate
Maria: 109 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Guadalupe: 17 babies, 16.3× the national rate

Boys

Kee: 20 babies, 269.5× the national rate
Alejandro: 15 babies, 69.3× the national rate
Fernando: 21 babies, 52.2× the national rate
Raul: 25 babies, 41.5× the national rate
Francisco: 42 babies, 37.7× the national rate
Alfredo: 15 babies, 30.5× the national rate
Ramon: 28 babies, 25.7× the national rate
Jesus: 40 babies, 25× the national rate
Manuel: 113 babies, 23.5× the national rate
Luis: 16 babies, 21.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arizona, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	266	–	1
2	Maria	109	–	>100
3	Margaret	86	↑5	4
4	Helen	83	↓1	3
5	Alice	71	↑4	15
6	Frances	70	↓1	9
7	Dorothy	62	↓3	2
8	Carmen	59	↑2	>100
9	Josephine	53	↑2	28
10	Virginia	53	↓3	6
11	Betty	51	↑1	8
12	Ruth	47	↓6	5
13	Lupe	43	–	>100
14	Nellie	40	↑4	80
15	Elizabeth	34	↓1	10
16	Marie	32	↑8	14
17	Marjorie	32	↑13	16
18	Esther	30	↑8	42
19	Irene	30	↑14	18
20	Socorro	30	↑5	>100
21	Rose	29	↓5	20
22	Antonia	28	↑13	>100
23	Eleanor	28	new	29
24	Amelia	27	new	>100
25	Anna	27	↓6	11
26	Isabel	27	new	>100
27	Mildred	27	↓12	7
28	Anita	26	new	>100
29	Elsie	26	new	55
30	Clara	25	↑19	45
31	Dolores	25	–	>100
32	Edna	24	new	27
33	Eva	24	↓12	63
34	Evelyn	24	↑6	12
35	Julia	24	↓8	58
36	Lillian	24	↑11	19
37	Edith	23	new	33
38	Florence	23	↑3	17
39	Grace	23	↓7	35
40	Barbara	22	↓20	40
41	Jean	22	↓7	25
42	Lois	22	new	38
43	Louise	22	↓26	22
44	Ramona	22	new	>100
45	Rita	22	new	48
46	Bertha	21	new	59
47	Emma	21	new	52
48	Lucy	21	↓20	93
49	Aurora	20	↓13	>100
50	Annie	19	new	36

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	John	149	–	1
2	Robert	143	–	2
3	William	116	↑1	3
4	James	114	↑5	4
5	Manuel	113	–	>100
6	Joe	107	↑1	36
7	Frank	104	↓4	9
8	George	81	–	6
9	Jose	78	↓3	>100
10	Edward	75	↑1	8
11	Charles	71	↓1	5
12	Richard	49	↑6	10
13	Henry	46	↑6	17
14	David	44	↓1	25
15	Jack	44	↓3	18
16	Albert	43	↓1	20
17	Francisco	42	↑15	>100
18	Jesus	40	↑11	>100
19	Arthur	39	↑6	19
20	Joseph	37	↓6	7
21	Juan	37	↓1	>100
22	Thomas	37	↑1	11
23	Paul	36	↓1	14
24	Raymond	34	↑7	16
25	Harold	32	↑22	12
26	Fred	30	↑1	33
27	Kenneth	29	new	22
28	Ralph	29	↓4	23
29	Ramon	28	↓13	>100
30	Antonio	27	↓13	>100
31	Ray	26	new	67
32	Roy	26	↑5	32
33	Ernest	25	↓12	38
34	Gilbert	25	↑6	>100
35	Raul	25	↓5	>100
36	Harry	24	↓1	21
37	Louis	24	↓11	29
38	Donald	22	new	13
39	Ben	21	new	>100
40	Fernando	21	new	>100
41	Kee	20	new	>100
42	Walter	19	↓3	15
43	Alfred	18	↓10	43
44	Carlos	18	↓10	>100
45	Mike	18	↓3	>100
46	Pete	18	new	>100
47	Tony	18	↓4	>100
48	Earl	17	new	31
49	Oscar	17	↓3	92
50	Ruben	17	new	>100

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