Popular baby names in California, 1930

The most popular baby names in California in 1930 were Mary for girls (1,850 babies) and Robert for boys (2,460). Social Security records list 75,293 babies born in California in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in California in 1930

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

Girls

Hortensia: 19 babies, 13.4× the national rate
Armida: 34 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Concha: 26 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Lupe: 154 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Catalina: 41 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Esperanza: 57 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Consuelo: 111 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Raquel: 32 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Angie: 58 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Elisa: 31 babies, 7.3× the national rate

Boys

Salvador: 94 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Joaquin: 23 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Angel: 51 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Aurelio: 28 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Fernando: 45 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Lupe: 28 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Eduardo: 24 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Roberto: 86 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Enrique: 38 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Manuel: 323 babies, 6.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in California, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	1,850	–	1
2	Barbara	1,411	–	6
3	Betty	1,172	–	2
4	Patricia	865	–	7
5	Dorothy	834	–	3
6	Shirley	711	–	11
7	Joan	603	↑6	8
8	Dolores	589	–	13
9	Virginia	589	↑1	12
10	Beverly	582	↑1	34
11	Helen	573	↓4	4
12	Margaret	549	↓3	5
13	Marilyn	520	↑5	22
14	Gloria	484	↓2	30
15	Alice	441	–	20
16	Nancy	422	↑7	24
17	Ruth	410	–	10
18	Joyce	385	↑2	18
19	Jean	384	–	14
20	Frances	369	↓4	16
21	Doris	342	↓7	9
22	Lois	319	–	17
23	Maria	315	↓2	99
24	Norma	292	↑9	25
25	Carol	270	–	54
26	Evelyn	269	↓2	19
27	Marjorie	265	↑1	32
28	Donna	254	↑16	37
29	Elizabeth	253	↑3	15
30	Phyllis	245	↓4	28
31	Rose	230	↑3	29
32	Josephine	228	↓3	49
33	Marie	228	↑3	26
34	June	226	↓7	47
35	Eleanor	223	↓5	39
36	Carmen	215	↓1	>100
37	Jacqueline	215	↑2	74
38	Lorraine	206	↓7	46
39	Esther	202	↓2	77
40	Joanne	202	↑5	81
41	Irene	196	↓1	33
42	Louise	196	↓4	31
43	Sally	195	↑3	98
44	Geraldine	193	↓3	43
45	Janet	189	new	53
46	Florence	171	↓4	38
47	Marian	169	↑1	80
48	Carolyn	160	new	72
49	Lillian	159	–	44
50	Mildred	159	↓7	21

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Robert	2,460	–	1
2	Richard	1,601	↑1	5
3	John	1,558	↓1	3
4	William	1,321	–	4
5	Donald	1,282	–	7
6	James	1,169	–	2
7	Charles	842	↑1	6
8	George	777	↓1	8
9	Frank	681	↑1	13
10	David	638	↑1	15
11	Jack	637	↓2	14
12	Edward	563	–	10
13	Joe	513	–	27
14	Raymond	478	–	16
15	Thomas	441	↑2	11
16	Joseph	396	↓1	9
17	Paul	390	↑1	12
18	Kenneth	387	↑1	17
19	Ronald	346	↑10	37
20	Harold	343	↑1	18
21	Albert	339	↓1	24
22	Arthur	324	↑1	23
23	Manuel	323	↓7	>100
24	Henry	318	↓2	22
25	Ralph	294	↓1	25
26	Walter	262	↓1	19
27	Don	261	↑8	68
28	Fred	261	↑3	32
29	Jose	257	↑1	>100
30	Eugene	251	↓4	21
31	Bill	242	↓4	59
32	Louis	240	↑5	34
33	Bob	235	↓1	88
34	Gerald	228	↓1	30
35	Norman	219	↑5	40
36	Ernest	217	↑8	43
37	Harry	214	↓9	28
38	Daniel	212	↑1	47
39	Gilbert	207	↑3	90
40	Roy	205	↓4	33
41	Alfred	203	–	46
42	Stanley	200	↓8	49
43	Jerry	199	↑3	51
44	Howard	197	↑5	31
45	Lawrence	194	↓2	36
46	Tony	182	↑1	>100
47	Peter	179	↑1	56
48	Leonard	158	new	45
49	Ray	152	new	57
50	Juan	146	new	>100

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