Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1920

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1920 were Mary for girls (307 babies) and Jose for boys (161). Jose ranked outside the top 100 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 7,471 babies born in New Mexico in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1920

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: 24 babies, 97.1× the national rate
Antonia: 28 babies, 28.3× the national rate
Margarita: 20 babies, 24.8× the national rate
Aurora: 21 babies, 24.2× the national rate
Ramona: 26 babies, 21.9× the national rate
Lupe: 18 babies, 20× the national rate
Maria: 119 babies, 19.4× the national rate
Carmen: 42 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Josie: 19 babies, 13.7× the national rate
Elvira: 19 babies, 10.1× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 26 babies, 139.6× the national rate
Arturo: 22 babies, 57.4× the national rate
Andres: 18 babies, 52.7× the national rate
Felipe: 17 babies, 45.6× the national rate
Juan: 79 babies, 37.8× the national rate
Alberto: 16 babies, 37.7× the national rate
Jose: 161 babies, 37.6× the national rate
Miguel: 15 babies, 34.2× the national rate
Luis: 25 babies, 33.5× the national rate
Ramon: 44 babies, 33.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	307	–	1
2	Maria	119	↑1	>100
3	Margaret	77	↓1	4
4	Helen	73	–	3
5	Josephine	68	↑1	28
6	Frances	67	↓1	9
7	Lucy	62	↑4	94
8	Virginia	56	↑2	7
9	Alice	53	↑13	15
10	Dorothy	53	↓3	2
11	Rose	47	↓3	20
12	Ruth	47	↓3	5
13	Juanita	46	↓1	61
14	Julia	43	↑13	55
15	Carmen	42	↑4	>100
16	Elizabeth	37	↑32	8
17	Emma	35	↓4	46
18	Martha	35	↑2	23
19	Dolores	33	↑24	>100
20	Esther	33	↓5	39
21	Jennie	33	↑2	97
22	Annie	32	↓8	35
23	Marie	31	↓5	13
24	Stella	31	new	82
25	Betty	30	↑22	11
26	Pauline	30	↓10	36
27	Antonia	28	↑1	>100
28	Dora	28	↑1	>100
29	Florence	28	new	16
30	Louise	28	↑3	19
31	Beatrice	27	↑5	41
32	Flora	27	↑17	>100
33	Anna	26	↑9	10
34	Irene	26	↓4	17
35	Ramona	26	↓14	>100
36	Evelyn	25	↓10	12
37	Ruby	25	new	26
38	Adelina	24	new	>100
39	Anita	24	↓1	>100
40	Barbara	24	new	47
41	Isabel	24	↓9	>100
42	Sarah	24	new	50
43	Bertha	23	new	57
44	Laura	23	new	63
45	Lola	22	new	>100
46	Lucille	22	↓2	29
47	Mildred	22	↓13	6
48	Agnes	21	new	54
49	Aurora	21	new	>100
50	Bessie	21	new	71

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Jose	161	–	>100
2	Joe	153	↑1	35
3	John	152	↓1	1
4	James	109	–	4
5	Manuel	100	↑3	>100
6	Frank	97	–	9
7	William	93	–	2
8	Robert	80	↓3	3
9	Juan	79	–	>100
10	George	72	–	6
11	Charles	65	↑2	5
12	Joseph	55	↑18	7
13	Antonio	52	↑2	>100
14	Henry	48	↑8	17
15	David	47	↑4	25
16	Louis	46	↑8	28
17	Ramon	44	↑9	>100
18	Tony	43	↑9	>100
19	Thomas	42	↓2	11
20	Ernest	41	↓9	37
21	Jack	41	↑4	20
22	Edward	39	↓8	8
23	Albert	36	↓7	19
24	Arthur	35	↓6	18
25	Raymond	35	↓13	15
26	Paul	34	↓3	14
27	Jesus	32	↑1	>100
28	Richard	30	↑3	10
29	Tom	30	new	>100
30	Daniel	29	↑16	52
31	Harry	28	↑11	21
32	Roy	28	↑12	32
33	Francisco	27	↓1	>100
34	Gilbert	27	new	97
35	Harold	27	↑6	12
36	Eloy	26	↑4	>100
37	Leo	25	new	48
38	Luis	25	↓5	>100
39	Fred	24	↓19	33
40	Willie	23	↑5	29
41	Arturo	22	new	>100
42	Carlos	22	↓4	>100
43	Jim	22	new	>100
44	Ralph	22	↓9	22
45	Ray	22	new	67
46	Max	21	new	>100
47	Alfred	20	↓10	42
48	Benjamin	20	new	83
49	Kenneth	20	new	23
50	Pedro	20	↓7	>100

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