Popular baby names in Arizona, 1923

The most popular baby names in Arizona in 1923 were Mary for girls (272 babies) and John for boys (159). Social Security records list 6,789 babies born in Arizona in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arizona in 1923

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: 19 babies, 75.8× the national rate
Lupe: 27 babies, 31.4× the national rate
Carmen: 74 babies, 28.7× the national rate
Consuelo: 24 babies, 26.4× the national rate
Maria: 118 babies, 21.2× the national rate
Aurora: 18 babies, 19.1× the national rate
Guadalupe: 18 babies, 17.9× the national rate
Elvira: 18 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Celia: 18 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Connie: 15 babies, 9.4× the national rate

Boys

Ernesto: 22 babies, 53.7× the national rate
Pablo: 21 babies, 36.3× the national rate
Francisco: 41 babies, 33.3× the national rate
Miguel: 17 babies, 31× the national rate
Raul: 20 babies, 29.5× the national rate
Jesus: 45 babies, 23.7× the national rate
Jose: 95 babies, 22.9× the national rate
Manuel: 110 babies, 22.8× the national rate
Ramon: 25 babies, 21.7× the national rate
Salvador: 16 babies, 20.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arizona, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	272	–	1
2	Maria	118	–	>100
3	Helen	91	–	3
4	Betty	80	↑1	5
5	Carmen	74	↑6	>100
6	Margaret	69	↓2	4
7	Virginia	67	↓1	7
8	Alice	65	↑2	15
9	Dorothy	64	–	2
10	Ruth	61	↓2	6
11	Frances	57	↓4	10
12	Josephine	40	–	30
13	Dolores	36	↑11	83
14	Rose	31	↑1	23
15	Dora	29	↑20	>100
16	Elizabeth	29	–	9
17	Evelyn	29	↑4	12
18	Marjorie	28	↑13	16
19	Mildred	28	↑3	8
20	Eva	27	↓7	66
21	Lucy	27	↑29	92
22	Lupe	27	↓2	>100
23	Martha	27	↑9	21
24	Bertha	26	↑10	64
25	Anna	25	↓7	13
26	Esther	25	↑21	47
27	Irene	25	↓13	17
28	Julia	25	↓9	62
29	Nellie	25	↑4	88
30	Barbara	24	↓7	33
31	Consuelo	24	↓2	>100
32	Edith	24	new	36
33	Emma	23	↓6	53
34	Isabel	22	↓8	>100
35	Louise	22	↓18	22
36	Clara	21	new	49
37	Lillian	21	↓7	20
38	Sarah	21	↑4	54
39	Florence	20	new	18
40	Jessie	20	↓4	94
41	Juanita	20	new	51
42	Katherine	20	new	60
43	Marie	20	new	14
44	Jean	19	new	19
45	Rosa	19	↓1	>100
46	Socorro	19	↓18	>100
47	Anita	18	new	>100
48	Aurora	18	new	>100
49	Celia	18	↓8	>100
50	Edna	18	↓4	32

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	John	159	–	1
2	William	140	↑1	3
3	Robert	131	↓1	2
4	Manuel	110	↑3	>100
5	Joe	99	↑1	35
6	Jose	95	↓1	>100
7	Frank	94	↑1	11
8	James	72	↓4	4
9	George	65	–	6
10	David	60	↑6	24
11	Edward	57	↑8	8
12	Henry	57	↑2	18
13	Jack	57	↓1	17
14	Charles	51	↓4	5
15	Jesus	45	↑2	>100
16	Francisco	41	↑18	>100
17	Albert	39	↓2	20
18	Antonio	37	↑13	>100
19	Juan	37	↑1	>100
20	Louis	37	↑3	27
21	Richard	36	↓10	9
22	Harry	35	↑10	22
23	Raymond	35	↓2	15
24	Ernest	34	–	38
25	Thomas	34	↓3	12
26	Paul	33	↓1	14
27	Arthur	32	↓9	19
28	Fred	31	–	33
29	Gilbert	30	↑1	>100
30	Joseph	27	↓17	7
31	Walter	27	↑15	16
32	Tom	26	new	>100
33	Daniel	25	new	47
34	Harold	25	↑6	13
35	Ramon	25	↓6	>100
36	Alfred	24	↑2	42
37	Roy	24	–	32
38	Carlos	23	↓5	>100
39	Howard	23	new	26
40	Carl	22	↑2	28
41	Donald	22	↓2	10
42	Ernesto	22	new	>100
43	Kenneth	22	↓8	21
44	Ralph	22	↓18	23
45	Pablo	21	new	>100
46	Oscar	20	↓2	96
47	Raul	20	↓11	>100
48	Eugene	19	new	25
49	Luis	19	↓22	>100
50	Tony	19	↓1	>100

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