Popular baby names in Arizona, 1927

The most popular baby names in Arizona in 1927 were Mary for girls (310 babies) and John for boys (198). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 7,889 babies born in Arizona in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arizona in 1927

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: 26 babies, 58.7× the national rate
Angelita: 15 babies, 40.3× the national rate
Lupe: 39 babies, 27.4× the national rate
Margarita: 23 babies, 23.4× the national rate
Consuelo: 25 babies, 21.8× the national rate
Guadalupe: 27 babies, 20.1× the national rate
Carmen: 56 babies, 17.1× the national rate
Maria: 119 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Ramona: 26 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Aurora: 15 babies, 12.9× the national rate

Boys

Kee: 31 babies, 220.6× the national rate
Miguel: 28 babies, 38.7× the national rate
Angel: 16 babies, 33.9× the national rate
Rafael: 23 babies, 31.8× the national rate
Fernando: 18 babies, 26.4× the national rate
Jesus: 67 babies, 25.6× the national rate
Francisco: 44 babies, 22.5× the national rate
Raul: 29 babies, 22.3× the national rate
Manuel: 118 babies, 20.4× the national rate
Armando: 16 babies, 19.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arizona, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	310	–	1
2	Maria	119	–	>100
3	Betty	100	–	3
4	Helen	78	↑5	4
5	Margaret	72	↓1	5
6	Alice	67	↑1	17
7	Frances	67	↓1	12
8	Barbara	56	↑3	10
9	Carmen	56	↓1	>100
10	Josephine	50	↑2	39
11	Virginia	50	↓1	8
12	Ruth	47	↑1	6
13	Dolores	44	↑4	34
14	Dorothy	41	↓9	2
15	Lupe	39	–	>100
16	Irene	36	↑12	21
17	Esther	35	↑4	65
18	Nellie	34	↑14	>100
19	Julia	33	↑5	76
20	Bertha	32	↑27	80
21	Annie	31	↑12	36
22	Lydia	31	new	>100
23	Norma	31	↑18	26
24	Teresa	30	new	>100
25	Dora	29	↓11	>100
26	Martha	29	new	24
27	Elizabeth	28	↓5	13
28	Anita	27	↑7	>100
29	Emma	27	↑8	64
30	Guadalupe	27	↑10	>100
31	Marie	27	↓8	20
32	Eva	26	↓12	79
33	Ramona	26	new	>100
34	Rose	26	↓9	23
35	Socorro	26	↓8	>100
36	Consuelo	25	new	>100
37	Isabel	25	↑1	>100
38	Jessie	25	new	95
39	Louise	25	↑11	27
40	Patricia	25	↓21	18
41	Gloria	24	↓25	22
42	Jean	24	↓13	14
43	Mildred	24	↓17	11
44	Rosie	24	new	>100
45	Shirley	24	new	9
46	Margarita	23	new	>100
47	Eleanor	21	new	33
48	Florence	21	new	28
49	Anna	20	new	16
50	Celia	20	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	John	198	↑1	2
2	Robert	151	↓1	1
3	Frank	136	↑1	12
4	Manuel	118	↑2	>100
5	Joe	111	↑4	30
6	William	107	↓1	4
7	Jose	106	↑1	>100
8	James	100	↓5	3
9	Richard	78	↑4	6
10	George	75	↓3	7
11	Charles	68	–	5
12	Jesus	67	↓2	>100
13	Henry	63	↑1	19
14	David	56	↑13	21
15	Jack	55	–	16
16	Edward	51	–	10
17	Arthur	45	–	22
18	Albert	44	–	23
19	Donald	44	–	8
20	Francisco	44	↑9	>100
21	Thomas	43	–	11
22	Raymond	40	↓10	15
23	Antonio	39	↑8	>100
24	Fred	38	↑1	35
25	Ramon	38	↓5	>100
26	Gilbert	37	↓4	99
27	Juan	36	↓4	>100
28	Louis	35	↑11	29
29	Ralph	35	↑1	24
30	Harry	34	↑8	25
31	Paul	33	↓7	13
32	Ernest	32	↑1	41
33	Joseph	31	↓7	9
34	Kee	31	↑7	>100
35	Walter	31	↓1	17
36	Billy	30	↑13	31
37	Raul	29	↓2	>100
38	Ruben	29	new	>100
39	Carlos	28	↑4	>100
40	Miguel	28	↑6	>100
41	Mike	28	↑3	>100
42	Tony	27	↓2	>100
43	Alex	26	new	>100
44	Roy	26	↓7	34
45	Alfred	25	↑3	45
46	Luis	25	↓10	>100
47	Harold	24	↓19	14
48	Sam	24	new	>100
49	Rafael	23	new	>100
50	Tom	23	new	>100

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