Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1916

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1916 were Mary for girls (250 babies) and John for boys (123). Social Security records list 5,717 babies born in New Mexico in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1916

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

Girls

Amalia: 16 babies, 76.4× the national rate
Adelina: 15 babies, 74.7× the national rate
Lupe: 20 babies, 52× the national rate
Aurora: 17 babies, 32.5× the national rate
Antonia: 23 babies, 32.3× the national rate
Maria: 65 babies, 18× the national rate
Josie: 15 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Carmen: 15 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Isabel: 28 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Elvira: 16 babies, 9.8× the national rate

Boys

Ernesto: 17 babies, 97.6× the national rate
Luis: 23 babies, 71.7× the national rate
Miguel: 17 babies, 62.5× the national rate
Juan: 59 babies, 57.1× the national rate
Jose: 107 babies, 51× the national rate
Alfredo: 15 babies, 39.9× the national rate
Ramon: 24 babies, 34.6× the national rate
Antonio: 54 babies, 32.1× the national rate
Jesus: 26 babies, 31.5× the national rate
Pedro: 19 babies, 31.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	250	–	1
2	Helen	65	↑2	2
3	Maria	65	↓1	>100
4	Margaret	64	↑2	4
5	Dorothy	54	↑3	3
6	Josephine	50	↑1	21
7	Ruth	49	↓2	5
8	Alice	47	↑10	13
9	Frances	46	↓6	9
10	Rose	44	↑4	15
11	Lucy	43	↑1	84
12	Juanita	42	↓1	90
13	Elizabeth	39	↑6	8
14	Emma	39	↑2	41
15	Julia	39	↑25	46
16	Ruby	34	↑7	23
17	Anita	32	↑27	>100
18	Marie	32	↓5	12
19	Isabel	28	↑13	>100
20	Virginia	28	↓11	10
21	Irene	27	↑22	17
22	Annie	26	↓1	36
23	Bessie	26	↓1	56
24	Mildred	26	↓7	6
25	Pauline	25	↓5	33
26	Eva	24	↑1	55
27	Antonia	23	↑2	>100
28	Della	23	new	>100
29	Evelyn	23	↑7	11
30	Grace	23	↑3	26
31	Esther	22	new	34
32	Ida	21	new	54
33	Stella	21	new	63
34	Anna	20	↓24	7
35	Clara	20	↓10	39
36	Louise	20	↑2	18
37	Lucille	20	new	30
38	Lupe	20	↑9	>100
39	Martha	20	↓5	24
40	Lillian	19	new	16
41	Victoria	19	new	>100
42	Bertha	18	↑3	49
43	Betty	18	↓4	44
44	Dora	18	new	>100
45	Jennie	18	↓30	79
46	Lena	18	↑4	85
47	Thelma	18	new	29
48	Aurora	17	new	>100
49	Edith	17	new	28
50	Elsie	17	new	48

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	123	–	1
2	Joe	120	↑1	35
3	Jose	107	↓1	>100
4	James	88	↑3	3
5	William	81	↓1	2
6	Robert	80	–	4
7	Frank	75	↓2	9
8	Manuel	71	–	>100
9	George	68	–	7
10	Juan	59	–	>100
11	Charles	57	↑2	6
12	Antonio	54	–	>100
13	Joseph	43	↓2	5
14	Fred	38	↑7	29
15	Albert	35	↑4	17
16	Henry	35	↑1	14
17	Jack	35	↑7	26
18	Ernest	34	↓4	36
19	Louis	33	↑15	22
20	Edward	31	↓5	8
21	Paul	30	↑7	12
22	Roy	29	new	33
23	Tony	28	↓1	>100
24	Jesus	26	new	>100
25	Arthur	25	↓2	18
26	Richard	25	↑9	15
27	Thomas	25	↓7	10
28	Pete	24	↑15	>100
29	Ramon	24	↓13	>100
30	Raymond	24	↓4	16
31	David	23	↓13	28
32	Luis	23	↑7	>100
33	Ralph	22	↑7	21
34	Daniel	21	↓5	55
35	Alfred	19	new	43
36	Harry	19	↑11	19
37	Leo	19	↑8	47
38	Pedro	19	↓13	>100
39	Tom	19	new	>100
40	Clarence	17	↓9	24
41	Ernesto	17	new	>100
42	Harold	17	new	13
43	Max	17	↓16	>100
44	Miguel	17	↑5	>100
45	Walter	17	↓4	11
46	Carl	16	new	23
47	Lorenzo	16	new	>100
48	Alfredo	15	↓4	>100
49	Benjamin	15	↓16	79
50	Kenneth	14	new	27

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