Popular baby names in Arizona, 1940

The most popular baby names in Arizona in 1940 were Mary for girls (320 babies) and Robert for boys (242). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 9,860 babies born in Arizona in 1940 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arizona in 1940

Names given at least 15 times in Arizona that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Lupe: 28 babies, 19.8× the national rate
Angie: 15 babies, 15× the national rate
Olga: 19 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Lydia: 37 babies, 12× the national rate
Carmen: 41 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Josie: 15 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Cecilia: 23 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Olivia: 15 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Maria: 52 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Lucy: 32 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Boys

Kee: 16 babies, 119.3× the national rate
Fernando: 19 babies, 26.8× the national rate
Rudy: 37 babies, 20× the national rate
Armando: 16 babies, 19.2× the national rate
Francisco: 21 babies, 16× the national rate
Ruben: 30 babies, 15.7× the national rate
Ramon: 25 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Manuel: 66 babies, 13× the national rate
Jesus: 26 babies, 13× the national rate
Carlos: 36 babies, 12.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arizona, 1940

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Mary	320	–	1
2	Barbara	129	–	2
3	Betty	98	–	5
4	Patricia	98	↑1	3
5	Linda	87	↑13	8
6	Margaret	85	–	11
7	Carol	82	↑1	6
8	Helen	72	↑1	18
9	Alice	70	↓5	32
10	Frances	70	↑1	28
11	Gloria	70	↑1	30
12	Nancy	65	↓2	7
13	Virginia	63	↑3	21
14	Shirley	62	–	9
15	Judith	61	↑28	4
16	Sharon	57	↑8	17
17	Dorothy	55	–	12
18	Maria	52	↓11	>100
19	Martha	50	↑7	26
20	Rose	50	↑8	44
21	Sandra	50	↓1	10
22	Irene	48	↓9	73
23	Carolyn	47	↑2	15
24	Sylvia	43	↓2	62
25	Carmen	41	↓10	>100
26	Joyce	40	↑10	13
27	Norma	39	↓4	43
28	Sally	38	new	61
29	Judy	37	↑11	16
30	Lydia	37	new	>100
31	Ruth	37	↓10	24
32	Marie	36	↓1	41
33	Elizabeth	35	↑14	20
34	Evelyn	35	↑8	48
35	Beverly	33	↑9	27
36	Dolores	33	↓17	67
37	Esther	33	new	>100
38	Anita	32	new	87
39	Lucy	32	↑2	>100
40	Patsy	30	↓13	57
41	Phyllis	30	↓4	33
42	Janice	29	new	22
43	Lupe	28	↓4	>100
44	Peggy	28	new	37
45	Rita	28	new	70
46	Josephine	27	↓16	89
47	Anna	26	new	51
48	Marilyn	26	↓19	25
49	Nellie	26	↓17	>100
50	Wanda	26	↓16	52

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Robert	242	–	2
2	John	189	↑1	3
3	James	172	↓1	1
4	Richard	151	–	5
5	Charles	137	↑3	6
6	William	132	↓1	4
7	Frank	119	↓1	20
8	David	115	↑1	7
9	Joe	112	↓2	28
10	George	89	–	11
11	Jerry	77	↑1	14
12	Thomas	75	↑8	8
13	Ronald	68	↑4	10
14	Donald	66	↓1	9
15	Manuel	66	↓4	>100
16	Raymond	60	↓1	22
17	Edward	59	↑1	16
18	Larry	57	↓4	13
19	Paul	56	↓3	17
20	Ernest	55	↑8	58
21	Johnny	53	↑1	51
22	Henry	52	↓1	31
23	Kenneth	47	↓4	15
24	Arthur	46	↓1	33
25	Michael	45	↑14	18
26	Tony	44	↑4	>100
27	Albert	43	↓1	41
28	Billy	43	↑22	27
29	Jimmy	42	↑14	44
30	Jose	42	↓1	>100
31	Daniel	41	↑2	34
32	Roy	37	new	42
33	Rudy	37	new	>100
34	Carlos	36	↑3	>100
35	Eddie	36	↓1	81
36	Jack	36	↓12	29
37	Joseph	35	↓12	12
38	Ralph	35	↑7	37
39	Gilbert	34	↑7	>100
40	Bill	33	↓13	67
41	Bobby	33	↑8	30
42	Gary	33	↓1	19
43	Danny	31	new	>100
44	Fred	30	↓13	40
45	Ruben	30	new	>100
46	Alfred	29	↓11	69
47	Don	29	new	62
48	Walter	28	new	25
49	Jesus	26	↓13	>100
50	Juan	26	new	>100

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