Popular baby names in Arizona, 1948

The most popular baby names in Arizona in 1948 were Linda for girls (482 babies) and Robert for boys (421). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 17,900 babies born in Arizona in 1948 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Arizona in 1948

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: 26 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Guadalupe: 30 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Yolanda: 60 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Olivia: 37 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Margarita: 19 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Cecilia: 39 babies, 8× the national rate
Olga: 20 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Carmen: 43 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Stella: 35 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Lena: 16 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Boys

Angel: 18 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Ramon: 32 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Fernando: 20 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Armando: 25 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Manuel: 95 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Ruben: 48 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Hector: 20 babies, 9× the national rate
Miguel: 18 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Rudy: 32 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Francisco: 25 babies, 8.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Arizona, 1948

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1947	US rank
1	Linda	482	–	1
2	Mary	442	–	2
3	Barbara	214	↑1	3
4	Patricia	197	↓1	4
5	Susan	159	↑3	5
6	Sharon	138	↑1	9
7	Sandra	133	↓1	6
8	Gloria	130	↓3	28
9	Nancy	123	–	7
10	Carol	118	↑1	8
11	Margaret	117	↓1	13
12	Donna	114	↑3	11
13	Virginia	97	↑7	36
14	Betty	95	↓2	18
15	Karen	95	↓2	12
16	Judy	91	↑12	16
17	Shirley	86	↑1	20
18	Maria	85	↓2	75
19	Alice	80	↓2	49
20	Carolyn	80	↑1	14
21	Frances	79	↓7	42
22	Martha	78	↑3	32
23	Kathleen	70	↓4	10
24	Pamela	64	↑9	22
25	Sylvia	62	↓3	100
26	Diane	61	↑5	19
27	Janice	61	↓4	23
28	Judith	61	↓4	15
29	Elizabeth	60	↑16	26
30	Irene	60	–	>100
31	Yolanda	60	↓5	>100
32	Helen	58	↑5	40
33	Dorothy	57	↑5	29
34	Cheryl	56	↓5	25
35	Marilyn	56	↑1	33
36	Peggy	56	↑6	38
37	Cynthia	52	↑13	27
38	Deborah	52	new	30
39	Joyce	52	↑2	21
40	Rebecca	52	↑9	50
41	Brenda	51	↑2	17
42	Janet	49	↓8	24
43	Diana	48	new	48
44	Beverly	47	↓9	31
45	Teresa	47	new	82
46	Norma	44	↓7	>100
47	Rose	44	↓20	62
48	Carmen	43	↓16	>100
49	Christine	43	new	35
50	Catherine	42	new	41

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1947	US rank
1	Robert	421	–	2
2	John	369	–	3
3	David	324	↑1	5
4	Richard	300	↓1	7
5	James	292	–	1
6	William	264	–	4
7	Michael	248	–	6
8	Charles	158	↑1	9
9	Thomas	158	↑2	8
10	Larry	154	↓2	11
11	Frank	149	↓1	25
12	Gary	147	–	12
13	George	137	↑1	16
14	Joe	135	↑1	47
15	Edward	121	↑5	19
16	Ronald	119	–	10
17	Kenneth	107	↓4	15
18	Daniel	103	↑1	22
19	Paul	102	↓1	18
20	Donald	101	↓3	14
21	Jerry	99	–	21
22	Manuel	95	–	>100
23	Dennis	92	↑1	17
24	Steven	90	↑9	23
25	Raymond	89	↓2	27
26	Joseph	85	–	13
27	Danny	82	↓2	39
28	Henry	76	↑2	45
29	Stephen	74	↑7	20
30	Jose	67	↑5	>100
31	Johnny	66	↓2	52
32	Roy	66	↓4	49
33	Arthur	65	↑9	44
34	Jack	63	↓2	43
35	Ralph	62	↑12	51
36	Steve	59	new	60
37	Albert	58	↓10	55
38	Terry	56	↑6	26
39	Tony	53	↓1	>100
40	Mike	51	↓9	68
41	Mark	50	new	29
42	Bruce	49	new	28
43	Ernest	49	–	76
44	Ruben	48	↑5	>100
45	Fred	47	↓8	66
46	Gilbert	47	↑2	>100
47	Jimmy	47	↓13	50
48	Ray	46	new	100
49	Eddie	44	↓4	78
50	Gregory	44	new	32

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