Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1917

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1917 were Mary for girls (239 babies) and John for boys (133). Social Security records list 6,215 babies born in New Mexico in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1917

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

Lupe: 26 babies, 53.7× the national rate
Margarita: 18 babies, 39.8× the national rate
Antonia: 27 babies, 34.6× the national rate
Consuelo: 15 babies, 28.7× the national rate
Aurora: 15 babies, 27.4× the national rate
Carmen: 32 babies, 19.4× the national rate
Ramona: 17 babies, 19.4× the national rate
Maria: 68 babies, 16× the national rate
Isabel: 26 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Flora: 25 babies, 5.8× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 15 babies, 170.2× the national rate
Ernesto: 17 babies, 86.8× the national rate
Juan: 69 babies, 51.9× the national rate
Jose: 129 babies, 49.4× the national rate
Ramon: 33 babies, 47.7× the national rate
Alfredo: 18 babies, 44.5× the national rate
Miguel: 15 babies, 42.9× the national rate
Pedro: 23 babies, 30.5× the national rate
Francisco: 18 babies, 24.3× the national rate
Manuel: 89 babies, 23.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	239	–	1
2	Margaret	70	↑2	4
3	Maria	68	–	>100
4	Frances	65	↑5	9
5	Helen	64	↓3	2
6	Dorothy	51	↓1	3
7	Alice	49	↑1	13
8	Juanita	49	↑4	87
9	Ruth	45	↓2	5
10	Emma	41	↑4	46
11	Josephine	41	↓5	21
12	Rose	39	↓2	16
13	Virginia	38	↑7	10
14	Lucy	37	↓3	88
15	Marie	34	↑3	12
16	Carmen	32	new	>100
17	Julia	32	↓2	47
18	Evelyn	29	↑11	11
19	Eva	28	↑7	54
20	Anna	27	↑14	7
21	Antonia	27	↑6	>100
22	Isabel	26	↓3	>100
23	Jennie	26	↑22	81
24	Louise	26	↑12	19
25	Lupe	26	↑13	>100
26	Rita	26	new	63
27	Ruby	26	↓11	27
28	Esther	25	↑3	38
29	Flora	25	new	>100
30	Florence	25	new	14
31	Irene	25	↓10	17
32	Pauline	24	↓7	33
33	Elizabeth	23	↓20	8
34	Beatrice	22	new	39
35	Hazel	22	new	31
36	Annie	21	↓14	35
37	Dolores	21	new	>100
38	Dora	21	↑6	>100
39	Lucille	21	↓2	29
40	Stella	21	↓7	62
41	Anita	20	↓24	>100
42	Mildred	20	↓18	6
43	Clara	19	↓8	41
44	Jessie	19	new	70
45	Martha	19	↓6	22
46	Ethel	18	new	24
47	Grace	18	↓17	30
48	Lillian	18	↓8	15
49	Lola	18	new	>100
50	Margarita	18	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	John	133	–	1
2	Jose	129	↑1	>100
3	Joe	122	↓1	35
4	William	105	↑1	2
5	James	91	↓1	3
6	Manuel	89	↑2	>100
7	Robert	87	↓1	4
8	George	80	↑1	6
9	Juan	69	↑1	>100
10	Frank	64	↓3	9
11	Charles	54	–	7
12	Antonio	41	–	>100
13	Paul	37	↑8	13
14	Henry	36	↑2	15
15	Ernest	35	↑3	37
16	Jack	35	↑1	22
17	Joseph	33	↓4	5
18	Ramon	33	↑11	>100
19	Raymond	32	↑11	16
20	Albert	31	↓5	18
21	Thomas	31	↑6	10
22	Edward	30	↓2	8
23	Arthur	29	↑2	17
24	David	29	↑7	28
25	Tony	28	↓2	>100
26	Fred	27	↓12	29
27	Pete	25	↑1	>100
28	Harry	23	↑8	19
29	Louis	23	↓10	23
30	Pedro	23	↑8	>100
31	Walter	23	↑14	11
32	Carlos	22	new	>100
33	Jesus	22	↓9	>100
34	Ralph	21	↓1	21
35	Richard	21	↓9	14
36	Tom	21	↑3	>100
37	Samuel	19	new	42
38	Alfredo	18	↑10	>100
39	Daniel	18	↓5	54
40	Francisco	18	new	>100
41	Lee	18	new	85
42	Ernesto	17	↓1	>100
43	Sam	17	new	72
44	Willie	17	new	31
45	Ben	16	new	>100
46	Dan	16	new	>100
47	Earl	16	new	32
48	Howard	16	new	26
49	Clarence	15	↓9	25
50	Eloy	15	new	>100

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