Popular baby names in California, 1925

The most popular baby names in California in 1925 were Mary for girls (1,890 babies) and Robert for boys (2,507). Social Security records list 73,491 babies born in California in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in California in 1925

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

Girls

Yoshiko: 34 babies, 17.8× the national rate
Toshiko: 19 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Socorro: 44 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Catalina: 29 babies, 10× the national rate
Lupe: 110 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Esperanza: 49 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Consuelo: 86 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Ofelia: 37 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Carmen: 213 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Margarita: 55 babies, 6.5× the national rate

Boys

Minoru: 21 babies, 16.9× the national rate
Kazuo: 19 babies, 14.9× the national rate
Hiroshi: 31 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Kiyoshi: 23 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Hideo: 23 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Joaquin: 20 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Fidel: 19 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Salvador: 92 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Angel: 37 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Lupe: 23 babies, 7.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in California, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	1,890	–	1
2	Betty	1,529	–	3
3	Barbara	1,073	↑1	22
4	Dorothy	1,053	↓1	2
5	Helen	757	–	4
6	Virginia	754	↑1	7
7	Margaret	727	↓1	5
8	Patricia	727	–	28
9	Ruth	589	–	6
10	Gloria	545	↑9	20
11	Frances	506	↓1	11
12	Shirley	484	↑3	17
13	Jean	457	↓1	14
14	Alice	410	–	15
15	Doris	405	↓2	8
16	Marjorie	402	↓5	21
17	June	369	↑3	39
18	Lois	367	–	18
19	Evelyn	356	↓3	12
20	Elizabeth	321	↓3	10
21	Maria	302	↑7	>100
22	Lorraine	298	↑2	51
23	Marie	295	↓1	16
24	Eleanor	286	↓3	31
25	Josephine	276	–	36
26	Phyllis	274	↑1	40
27	Beverly	252	↑6	>100
28	Mildred	251	↓5	9
29	Norma	236	↑1	34
30	Rose	235	↓1	26
31	Dolores	234	↑12	64
32	Florence	234	↓6	24
33	Irene	225	↓2	19
34	Marilyn	222	↑5	83
35	Esther	219	↓3	56
36	Carmen	213	↑4	>100
37	Marian	210	↓2	67
38	Lillian	203	↓4	25
39	Nancy	202	new	60
40	Lucille	197	↓3	41
41	Louise	193	↓3	27
42	Anna	186	↑5	13
43	Joyce	184	new	59
44	Martha	181	↑5	23
45	Katherine	179	new	61
46	Jeanne	177	–	89
47	Jane	175	↓3	53
48	Jacqueline	171	↑2	>100
49	Geraldine	164	↓7	54
50	Grace	164	↓14	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Robert	2,507	–	1
2	John	1,702	–	2
3	William	1,589	–	3
4	James	1,251	–	4
5	Richard	1,153	↑1	8
6	George	1,042	↓1	6
7	Donald	863	↑1	10
8	Charles	794	↑1	5
9	Frank	772	↓2	12
10	Jack	752	–	17
11	Edward	598	–	9
12	Joseph	446	–	7
13	Thomas	437	↑5	11
14	David	430	↑2	22
15	Raymond	424	↓1	15
16	Harold	422	↓1	14
17	Joe	419	↓4	34
18	Arthur	413	↑2	20
19	Kenneth	400	–	19
20	Paul	398	↑1	13
21	Manuel	370	↑1	>100
22	Albert	354	↓5	21
23	Henry	330	–	18
24	Walter	327	–	16
25	Ralph	317	–	25
26	Harry	293	–	23
27	Eugene	279	↑2	24
28	Fred	258	↓1	33
29	Ernest	249	↓1	37
30	Roy	249	↑1	32
31	Alfred	237	↑2	43
32	Bill	224	↑14	84
33	Louis	224	↓3	29
34	Stanley	222	↑2	40
35	Howard	218	–	26
36	Norman	205	↑3	41
37	Daniel	193	↑7	44
38	Jose	192	↓4	>100
39	Lawrence	180	↓7	36
40	Earl	171	↓3	31
41	Tony	170	↑2	>100
42	Carl	164	↓2	28
43	Bob	156	new	>100
44	Gerald	156	new	45
45	Jesus	156	↓4	>100
46	Peter	152	↑4	60
47	Herbert	148	new	42
48	Ray	148	–	64
49	Leonard	147	↓4	38
50	Clarence	140	↓12	30

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