Popular baby names in Arizona, 1928

The most popular baby names in Arizona in 1928 were Mary for girls (283 babies) and John for boys (176). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 8,174 babies born in Arizona in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arizona in 1928

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: 33 babies, 65.9× the national rate
Guadalupe: 36 babies, 24.3× the national rate
Juana: 16 babies, 23.3× the national rate
Esperanza: 18 babies, 23× the national rate
Manuela: 15 babies, 22.8× the national rate
Francisca: 15 babies, 22.1× the national rate
Delia: 20 babies, 19.6× the national rate
Carmen: 61 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Margarita: 19 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Alicia: 17 babies, 16.9× the national rate

Boys

Kee: 27 babies, 244.4× the national rate
Francisco: 54 babies, 28.5× the national rate
Enrique: 20 babies, 27.1× the national rate
Miguel: 23 babies, 26.7× the national rate
Hector: 18 babies, 25.4× the national rate
Jesus: 72 babies, 24.4× the national rate
Luis: 28 babies, 22.8× the national rate
Arturo: 15 babies, 20.4× the national rate
Manuel: 124 babies, 19.8× the national rate
Armando: 17 babies, 18.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arizona, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	283	–	1
2	Betty	141	↑1	2
3	Maria	140	↓1	>100
4	Dorothy	83	↑10	3
5	Alice	82	↑1	19
6	Helen	78	↓2	4
7	Margaret	74	↓2	5
8	Barbara	68	–	8
9	Carmen	61	–	>100
10	Ruth	61	↑2	6
11	Frances	56	↓4	13
12	Virginia	51	↓1	9
13	Dolores	45	–	20
14	Josephine	44	↓4	42
15	Dora	41	↑10	>100
16	Gloria	38	↑25	25
17	Guadalupe	36	↑13	>100
18	Lucy	36	new	>100
19	Patricia	36	↑21	11
20	Irene	35	↓4	28
21	Socorro	33	↑14	>100
22	Norma	32	↑1	23
23	Anita	31	↑5	>100
24	Eva	30	↑8	79
25	Martha	30	↑1	22
26	Nellie	30	↓8	>100
27	Doris	29	new	7
28	Bertha	28	↓8	81
29	Marjorie	28	new	29
30	Rose	28	↑4	24
31	Marie	27	–	21
32	Pauline	26	new	48
33	Sarah	26	new	64
34	Emma	25	↓5	67
35	Teresa	24	↓11	>100
36	Shirley	23	↑9	10
37	Amelia	22	new	>100
38	Edna	22	new	45
39	Isabel	22	↓2	>100
40	Julia	22	↓21	80
41	Mildred	22	↑2	15
42	Rita	22	new	57
43	Anna	21	↑6	16
44	Annie	21	↓23	37
45	Joyce	21	new	30
46	Lupe	21	↓31	>100
47	Lydia	21	↓25	>100
48	Rosa	21	new	>100
49	Delia	20	new	>100
50	Elizabeth	20	↓23	14

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	John	176	–	2
2	Robert	175	–	1
3	Manuel	124	↑1	>100
4	Jose	122	↑3	>100
5	Joe	114	–	30
6	William	113	–	4
7	Frank	109	↓4	12
8	James	105	–	3
9	George	98	↑1	8
10	Richard	80	↓1	6
11	Charles	72	–	5
12	Jesus	72	–	>100
13	David	59	↑1	19
14	Edward	59	↑2	10
15	Francisco	54	↑5	>100
16	Paul	54	↑15	13
17	Juan	53	↑10	>100
18	Henry	49	↓5	21
19	Jack	49	↓4	15
20	Ramon	45	↑5	>100
21	Raymond	43	↑1	16
22	Antonio	42	↑1	>100
23	Albert	41	↓5	23
24	Ralph	41	↑5	24
25	Arthur	39	↓8	22
26	Ernest	39	↑6	43
27	Gilbert	37	↓1	96
28	Thomas	37	↓7	11
29	Donald	34	↓10	7
30	Louis	34	↓2	32
31	Tony	34	↑11	>100
32	Harry	33	↓2	26
33	Joseph	33	–	9
34	Ruben	33	↑4	>100
35	Billy	32	↑1	27
36	Fred	32	↓12	36
37	Kenneth	31	new	17
38	Luis	28	↑8	>100
39	Pedro	28	new	>100
40	Victor	28	new	99
41	Alfred	27	↑4	33
42	Kee	27	↓8	>100
43	Bill	25	new	64
44	Daniel	25	new	47
45	Harold	25	↑2	14
46	Raul	25	↓9	>100
47	Ray	25	new	57
48	Miguel	23	↓8	>100
49	Carlos	22	↓10	>100
50	Tom	22	–	>100

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