Popular baby names in Arizona, 1938

The most popular baby names in Arizona in 1938 were Mary for girls (333 babies) and Robert for boys (232). Social Security records list 9,580 babies born in Arizona in 1938 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arizona in 1938

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: 17 babies, 49.4× the national rate
Lupe: 25 babies, 17.1× the national rate
Angie: 15 babies, 15.8× the national rate
Olga: 23 babies, 14× the national rate
Isabel: 20 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Carmen: 39 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Lydia: 22 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Teresa: 19 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Cecilia: 15 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Maria: 54 babies, 6.3× the national rate

Boys

Kee: 22 babies, 172× the national rate
Armando: 18 babies, 20.4× the national rate
Hector: 15 babies, 18.6× the national rate
Raul: 23 babies, 17.2× the national rate
Roberto: 21 babies, 16.4× the national rate
Manuel: 82 babies, 16.3× the national rate
Luis: 21 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Ramon: 29 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Rudy: 26 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Carlos: 30 babies, 11.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arizona, 1938

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Mary	333	–	1
2	Barbara	125	↑1	2
3	Betty	100	↓1	4
4	Patricia	86	↑5	3
5	Alice	84	↑6	29
6	Frances	83	↑1	23
7	Margaret	79	↓2	9
8	Shirley	79	↓2	5
9	Helen	71	↓5	13
10	Nancy	61	↑2	7
11	Virginia	61	↓1	22
12	Dorothy	58	↑1	8
13	Gloria	57	↓5	36
14	Irene	55	↑2	72
15	Maria	54	↑3	>100
16	Beverly	53	↑6	18
17	Carol	50	↓2	6
18	Sylvia	44	↑13	56
19	Martha	40	↓2	26
20	Carmen	39	↑9	>100
21	Rose	38	↓7	39
22	Sally	38	↑2	54
23	Norma	37	↓2	34
24	Donna	35	↑18	20
25	Ruth	35	↑2	21
26	Dolores	34	↓3	43
27	Josephine	33	↑16	83
28	Joyce	33	↓2	11
29	Sharon	33	new	30
30	Elizabeth	32	↓5	17
31	Evelyn	32	↑18	38
32	Juanita	32	↑4	80
33	Carolyn	29	↓14	15
34	Marie	29	new	37
35	Wanda	29	–	49
36	Darlene	26	new	76
37	Linda	26	new	31
38	Esther	25	new	>100
39	Joan	25	↓1	10
40	Judy	25	new	41
41	Julia	25	new	>100
42	Lupe	25	new	>100
43	Marilyn	25	↓13	19
44	Nellie	25	↓24	>100
45	Pat	25	new	>100
46	Rita	25	new	74
47	Sandra	25	new	14
48	Dora	24	new	>100
49	Doris	24	↓1	25
50	Janice	23	↓4	24

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Robert	232	–	1
2	John	167	–	3
3	James	156	–	2
4	Richard	137	↑2	5
5	William	130	–	4
6	Frank	120	↑1	18
7	Joe	119	↓3	28
8	David	101	↑1	8
9	Charles	94	↓1	6
10	Manuel	82	↑1	>100
11	Donald	80	↑1	7
12	Jerry	75	↑6	17
13	George	74	↓3	11
14	Henry	66	↑3	30
15	Edward	64	↓1	13
16	Paul	63	↑4	15
17	Larry	57	↓1	16
18	Raymond	53	↓5	20
19	Ronald	53	↑4	10
20	Kenneth	51	↑8	14
21	Joseph	46	↑23	12
22	Thomas	46	↓7	9
23	Jose	44	↓4	>100
24	Albert	40	↑2	37
25	Arthur	40	↑8	32
26	Billy	40	↓5	24
27	Fred	38	↓5	38
28	Gilbert	38	↑3	>100
29	Tony	38	↑10	>100
30	Bobby	36	↑5	27
31	Jimmy	36	↑3	45
32	Bill	35	↓5	67
33	Eddie	35	new	79
34	Jack	35	↓2	25
35	Johnny	35	↓6	63
36	Harry	34	new	44
37	Ralph	34	↑1	35
38	Gary	31	↑10	22
39	Roy	31	↓9	41
40	Carlos	30	new	>100
41	Walter	30	new	26
42	Carl	29	↓6	29
43	Daniel	29	↑3	39
44	Don	29	↓7	52
45	Norman	29	new	43
46	Ramon	29	↓5	>100
47	Juan	28	↑2	>100
48	Jim	27	↑2	81
49	Ray	27	↓2	72
50	Ernest	26	↓26	55

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