Popular baby names in Arizona, 1922

The most popular baby names in Arizona in 1922 were Mary for girls (252 babies) and John for boys (165). Social Security records list 6,412 babies born in Arizona in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arizona in 1922

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: 24 babies, 101.5× the national rate
Juana: 16 babies, 41.7× the national rate
Manuela: 20 babies, 41.4× the national rate
Consuelo: 23 babies, 32.9× the national rate
Lupe: 29 babies, 32.3× the national rate
Carmen: 52 babies, 25.3× the national rate
Ramona: 21 babies, 23.6× the national rate
Maria: 90 babies, 17.8× the national rate
Isabel: 25 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Celia: 19 babies, 10.6× the national rate

Boys

Kee: 19 babies, 235.2× the national rate
Ignacio: 20 babies, 56.2× the national rate
Raul: 21 babies, 34.6× the national rate
Luis: 28 babies, 33.9× the national rate
Miguel: 16 babies, 33.2× the national rate
Salvador: 18 babies, 25.9× the national rate
Jose: 97 babies, 25.8× the national rate
Ramon: 27 babies, 25.6× the national rate
Jesus: 41 babies, 24.4× the national rate
Juan: 40 babies, 21.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arizona, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	252	–	1
2	Maria	90	–	>100
3	Helen	79	↑1	3
4	Margaret	72	↓1	4
5	Betty	62	↑6	6
6	Virginia	62	↑4	7
7	Frances	58	↓1	10
8	Ruth	58	↑4	5
9	Dorothy	56	↓2	2
10	Alice	54	↓5	15
11	Carmen	52	↓3	>100
12	Josephine	52	↓3	27
13	Eva	37	↑20	64
14	Irene	36	↑5	17
15	Rose	36	↑6	23
16	Elizabeth	33	↓1	9
17	Louise	32	↑26	22
18	Anna	31	↑7	12
19	Julia	31	↑16	60
20	Lupe	29	↓7	>100
21	Evelyn	27	↑13	13
22	Mildred	27	↑5	8
23	Barbara	26	↑17	40
24	Dolores	26	↑7	>100
25	Eleanor	26	↓2	28
26	Isabel	25	–	>100
27	Emma	24	↑20	50
28	Socorro	24	↓8	>100
29	Consuelo	23	new	>100
30	Lillian	23	↑6	19
31	Marjorie	23	↓14	16
32	Martha	23	new	21
33	Nellie	22	↓19	83
34	Bertha	21	↑12	63
35	Dora	21	new	>100
36	Jessie	21	new	87
37	Ramona	21	↑7	>100
38	Beatrice	20	new	43
39	Doris	20	new	11
40	Manuela	20	new	>100
41	Celia	19	new	>100
42	Sarah	19	new	51
43	Rita	18	↑2	52
44	Rosa	18	new	>100
45	Vera	18	new	79
46	Edna	17	↓14	29
47	Esther	17	↓29	44
48	Ida	17	new	65
49	June	17	new	45
50	Lucy	17	↓2	93

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	John	165	–	1
2	Robert	129	–	2
3	William	123	–	3
4	James	101	–	4
5	Jose	97	↑4	>100
6	Joe	94	–	35
7	Manuel	89	↓2	>100
8	Frank	88	↓1	10
9	George	77	↓1	6
10	Charles	71	↑1	5
11	Richard	62	↑1	9
12	Jack	50	↑3	18
13	Joseph	43	↑7	7
14	Henry	42	↓1	17
15	Albert	41	↑1	20
16	David	41	↓2	24
17	Jesus	41	↑1	>100
18	Arthur	40	↑1	19
19	Edward	40	↓9	8
20	Juan	40	↑1	>100
21	Raymond	37	↑3	16
22	Thomas	37	–	11
23	Louis	36	↑14	27
24	Ernest	32	↑9	37
25	Paul	29	↓2	14
26	Ralph	29	↑2	23
27	Luis	28	new	>100
28	Fred	27	↓2	33
29	Ramon	27	–	>100
30	Gilbert	26	↑4	100
31	Antonio	25	↓1	>100
32	Harry	25	↑4	22
33	Carlos	23	↑11	>100
34	Francisco	21	↓17	>100
35	Kenneth	21	↓8	21
36	Raul	21	↓1	>100
37	Roy	21	↓5	32
38	Alfred	20	↑5	42
39	Donald	20	↓1	12
40	Harold	20	↓15	13
41	Ignacio	20	new	>100
42	Carl	19	new	30
43	Kee	19	↓2	>100
44	Oscar	19	↑5	92
45	Salvador	18	new	>100
46	Walter	18	↓4	15
47	Alfonso	17	new	>100
48	Sam	17	new	84
49	Tony	17	↓2	>100
50	Victor	17	new	86

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