Popular baby names in Arizona, 1929

The most popular baby names in Arizona in 1929 were Mary for girls (303 babies) and Robert for boys (191). Social Security records list 8,678 babies born in Arizona in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arizona in 1929

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: 23 babies, 37.6× the national rate
Lupe: 37 babies, 22.8× the national rate
Aurora: 29 babies, 21.9× the national rate
Margarita: 24 babies, 18.3× the national rate
Delia: 17 babies, 14.7× the national rate
Maria: 138 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Carmen: 58 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Consuelo: 17 babies, 13.4× the national rate
Alicia: 15 babies, 13× the national rate
Celia: 21 babies, 10.8× the national rate

Boys

Kee: 28 babies, 195.1× the national rate
Fernando: 19 babies, 31.3× the national rate
Angel: 16 babies, 29.8× the national rate
Rodolfo: 23 babies, 27.1× the national rate
Rafael: 22 babies, 25.7× the national rate
Armando: 22 babies, 23.3× the national rate
Jesus: 69 babies, 21.9× the national rate
Alfredo: 23 babies, 20.7× the national rate
Francisco: 43 babies, 19.7× the national rate
Luis: 29 babies, 18.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arizona, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	303	–	1
2	Maria	138	↑1	100
3	Betty	136	↓1	2
4	Barbara	95	↑4	7
5	Helen	86	↑1	4
6	Dorothy	77	↓2	3
7	Alice	75	↓2	21
8	Margaret	67	↓1	5
9	Virginia	64	↑3	11
10	Carmen	58	↓1	>100
11	Josephine	52	↑3	45
12	Patricia	50	↑7	10
13	Ruth	50	↓3	8
14	Shirley	48	↑22	9
15	Gloria	43	↑1	28
16	Frances	38	↓5	16
17	Rose	38	↑13	26
18	Lupe	37	↑28	>100
19	Bertha	36	↑9	93
20	Dolores	36	↓7	14
21	Dora	33	↓6	>100
22	Irene	32	↓2	29
23	Marie	32	↑8	22
24	Emma	31	↑10	69
25	Norma	31	↓3	25
26	Aurora	29	new	>100
27	Eva	29	↓3	83
28	Martha	29	↓3	27
29	Peggy	29	new	70
30	Ramona	29	new	>100
31	Esther	28	new	71
32	Joyce	28	↑13	23
33	Juanita	28	new	60
34	Nellie	28	↓8	>100
35	Anita	27	↓12	>100
36	Evelyn	27	new	19
37	Lucy	27	↓19	>100
38	Billie	25	new	79
39	Julia	25	↑1	88
40	Isabel	24	↓1	>100
41	Margarita	24	new	>100
42	Pauline	24	↓10	50
43	Rosa	24	↑5	>100
44	Anna	23	↓1	20
45	Hazel	23	new	64
46	Socorro	23	↓25	>100
47	Beatrice	22	new	72
48	Sally	22	new	>100
49	Amelia	21	↓12	>100
50	Annie	21	↓6	37

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Robert	191	↑1	1
2	John	145	↓1	3
3	William	125	↑3	4
4	Joe	119	↑1	30
5	Manuel	119	↓2	>100
6	Jose	115	↓2	>100
7	James	108	↑1	2
8	Frank	103	↓1	12
9	George	93	–	8
10	Richard	86	–	6
11	Charles	76	–	5
12	Jesus	69	–	>100
13	Donald	66	↑16	7
14	Jack	62	↑5	14
15	Edward	61	↓1	10
16	Henry	56	↑2	21
17	David	54	↓4	17
18	Ramon	51	↑2	>100
19	Raymond	49	↑2	15
20	Juan	47	↓3	>100
21	Albert	45	↑2	24
22	Francisco	43	↓7	>100
23	Gilbert	42	↑4	91
24	Thomas	41	↑4	11
25	Antonio	40	↓3	>100
26	Arthur	40	↓1	22
27	Billy	39	↑8	23
28	Fred	37	↑8	34
29	Tony	37	↑2	>100
30	Joseph	36	↑3	9
31	Ernest	34	↓5	43
32	Paul	34	↓16	13
33	Ralph	34	↓9	26
34	Harry	30	↓2	27
35	Roy	30	new	35
36	Harold	29	↑9	16
37	Luis	29	↑1	>100
38	Ruben	29	↓4	>100
39	Kee	28	↑3	>100
40	Bob	27	new	89
41	Daniel	26	↑3	47
42	Johnny	26	new	>100
43	Alfred	25	↓2	41
44	Louis	25	↓14	32
45	Mike	25	new	>100
46	Kenneth	24	↓9	18
47	Alfredo	23	new	>100
48	Roberto	23	new	>100
49	Rodolfo	23	new	>100
50	Armando	22	new	>100

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