Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1919

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1919 were Mary for girls (270 babies) and Jose for boys (168). Jose ranked outside the top 100 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,426 babies born in New Mexico in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1919

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

Adelina: 16 babies, 67.2× the national rate
Eloisa: 16 babies, 55.7× the national rate
Adela: 21 babies, 48.4× the national rate
Petra: 18 babies, 43.2× the national rate
Lupe: 32 babies, 39.8× the national rate
Antonia: 27 babies, 37.3× the national rate
Elena: 17 babies, 33.8× the national rate
Margarita: 17 babies, 31.2× the national rate
Ramona: 30 babies, 30.4× the national rate
Consuelo: 15 babies, 25.7× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 20 babies, 181.2× the national rate
Ernesto: 31 babies, 100.5× the national rate
Jose: 168 babies, 50.4× the national rate
Alberto: 16 babies, 43.2× the national rate
Juan: 73 babies, 42.9× the national rate
Miguel: 19 babies, 42.7× the national rate
Alfredo: 18 babies, 42× the national rate
Luis: 22 babies, 32.4× the national rate
Ramon: 28 babies, 30.8× the national rate
Salvador: 17 babies, 29.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	270	–	1
2	Margaret	81	↑1	4
3	Maria	76	↓1	>100
4	Helen	64	↑1	2
5	Frances	61	↓1	9
6	Josephine	54	–	26
7	Dorothy	52	–	3
8	Rose	50	↑4	19
9	Ruth	49	↓1	5
10	Virginia	44	–	7
11	Lucy	42	↑3	91
12	Juanita	41	↑3	73
13	Emma	40	↓2	45
14	Annie	37	↑4	35
15	Esther	34	↑25	38
16	Pauline	33	↑8	36
17	Lupe	32	↑27	>100
18	Marie	32	↓1	12
19	Carmen	31	↓3	>100
20	Martha	30	↑16	25
21	Ramona	30	↑4	>100
22	Alice	29	↓13	13
23	Jennie	29	↓1	93
24	Nellie	29	new	69
25	Clara	28	↑18	43
26	Evelyn	28	↑3	11
27	Julia	28	↓14	48
28	Antonia	27	↓2	>100
29	Dora	26	↑10	>100
30	Irene	26	new	16
31	Eva	25	↓3	55
32	Isabel	25	↓11	>100
33	Louise	25	↓2	20
34	Mildred	25	↓11	6
35	Viola	25	new	58
36	Beatrice	24	↓9	41
37	Edna	24	new	22
38	Anita	23	new	>100
39	Rosie	23	new	>100
40	Lillian	22	new	17
41	Adela	21	new	>100
42	Anna	20	↓4	10
43	Dolores	20	↓11	>100
44	Lucille	20	↓25	27
45	Rosa	20	new	>100
46	Josie	19	new	>100
47	Betty	18	new	15
48	Elizabeth	18	–	8
49	Flora	18	↓14	>100
50	Petra	18	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Jose	168	–	>100
2	John	146	–	1
3	Joe	133	–	35
4	James	96	↑3	3
5	Robert	90	↑3	4
6	Frank	82	↓2	9
7	William	82	↓2	2
8	Manuel	78	↓2	>100
9	Juan	73	↑2	>100
10	George	59	–	6
11	Ernest	51	↑6	36
12	Raymond	46	↑8	14
13	Charles	43	↓4	5
14	Edward	42	↓1	8
15	Antonio	38	↓1	>100
16	Albert	37	↓1	18
17	Thomas	34	↑7	10
18	Arthur	33	↑3	19
19	David	32	↑8	27
20	Fred	32	↓8	30
21	Ernesto	31	new	>100
22	Henry	31	↓4	16
23	Paul	31	↓4	15
24	Louis	29	↑4	28
25	Jack	28	↑11	21
26	Ramon	28	↓3	>100
27	Tony	28	↓2	>100
28	Jesus	27	↑12	>100
29	Pete	27	↑10	>100
30	Joseph	26	↓14	7
31	Richard	25	↑3	12
32	Francisco	23	↑15	>100
33	Luis	22	new	>100
34	Mike	22	↑7	>100
35	Ralph	22	↓13	22
36	Samuel	22	new	43
37	Alfred	20	↓7	42
38	Carlos	20	↓5	>100
39	Charlie	20	new	66
40	Eloy	20	↑6	>100
41	Harold	20	↑3	13
42	Harry	20	↓13	20
43	Pedro	20	new	>100
44	Roy	20	↓13	32
45	Willie	20	↓3	23
46	Daniel	19	↓20	51
47	Miguel	19	↑2	>100
48	Alfredo	18	new	>100
49	Earl	18	new	31
50	Ben	17	new	>100

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