Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1921

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1921 were Mary for girls (416 babies) and Jose for boys (198). Jose ranked outside the top 100 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 8,106 babies born in New Mexico in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1921

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

Erlinda: 15 babies, 98.1× the national rate
Eloisa: 22 babies, 71.9× the national rate
Adelina: 15 babies, 64.4× the national rate
Adela: 16 babies, 29.3× the national rate
Petra: 15 babies, 26× the national rate
Ramona: 29 babies, 21.3× the national rate
Lupe: 21 babies, 20× the national rate
Aurora: 22 babies, 19.2× the national rate
Antonia: 21 babies, 17.9× the national rate
Margarita: 17 babies, 17.8× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 22 babies, 129.5× the national rate
Benito: 19 babies, 73× the national rate
Arturo: 21 babies, 64.4× the national rate
Jose: 198 babies, 47.2× the national rate
Miguel: 19 babies, 42.8× the national rate
Alfredo: 23 babies, 41.7× the national rate
Ernesto: 15 babies, 41.2× the national rate
Juan: 80 babies, 40.4× the national rate
Luis: 32 babies, 38.3× the national rate
Alberto: 19 babies, 37× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	416	–	1
2	Maria	112	–	>100
3	Helen	95	↑1	3
4	Margaret	90	↓1	4
5	Frances	75	↑1	9
6	Josephine	68	↓1	28
7	Dorothy	62	↑3	2
8	Ruth	61	↑4	5
9	Virginia	59	↓1	6
10	Juanita	56	↑3	57
11	Lucy	53	↓4	93
12	Rose	49	↓1	20
13	Martha	48	↑5	21
14	Emma	47	↑3	52
15	Alice	44	↓6	15
16	Marie	44	↑7	14
17	Betty	42	↑8	8
18	Irene	37	↑16	18
19	Annie	35	↑3	36
20	Carmen	34	↓5	>100
21	Mildred	34	↑26	7
22	Evelyn	33	↑14	12
23	Jennie	33	↓2	99
24	Dora	32	↑4	>100
25	Pauline	32	↑1	37
26	Anita	30	↑13	>100
27	Clara	30	new	45
28	Julia	30	↓14	58
29	Ramona	29	↑6	>100
30	Anna	28	↑3	11
31	Elvira	28	new	>100
32	Eva	28	new	63
33	Isabel	28	↑8	>100
34	Stella	28	↓10	86
35	Flora	27	↓3	>100
36	Lola	27	↑9	>100
37	Viola	27	new	66
38	Nellie	26	new	80
39	Beatrice	24	↓8	41
40	Dolores	24	↓21	>100
41	Elizabeth	24	↓25	10
42	Marjorie	24	new	16
43	Aurora	22	↑6	>100
44	Bertha	22	↓1	59
45	Eloisa	22	new	>100
46	Lois	22	new	38
47	Louise	22	↓17	22
48	Antonia	21	↓21	>100
49	Edith	21	new	33
50	Elsie	21	new	55

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Jose	198	–	>100
2	Joe	161	–	36
3	John	158	–	1
4	William	113	↑3	3
5	Robert	109	↑3	2
6	Frank	105	–	9
7	James	96	↓3	4
8	Manuel	89	↓3	>100
9	George	85	↑1	6
10	Juan	80	↓1	>100
11	Antonio	63	↑2	>100
12	Charles	58	↓1	5
13	Henry	56	↑1	17
14	Jack	48	↑7	18
15	Raymond	48	↑10	16
16	Arthur	43	↑8	19
17	Richard	43	↑11	10
18	Thomas	43	↑1	11
19	Joseph	41	↓7	7
20	Albert	40	↑3	20
21	Ernest	39	↓1	38
22	Edward	38	–	8
23	Tony	38	↓5	>100
24	David	37	↓9	25
25	Paul	37	↑1	14
26	Jesus	36	↑1	>100
27	Ramon	35	↓10	>100
28	Luis	32	↑10	>100
29	Roy	32	↑3	32
30	Willie	32	↑10	34
31	Alfonso	27	new	>100
32	Louis	26	↓16	29
33	Fred	25	↑6	33
34	Alfred	24	↑13	43
35	Daniel	24	↓5	49
36	Gilbert	24	↓2	>100
37	Alfredo	23	new	>100
38	Carlos	22	↑4	>100
39	Eloy	22	↓3	>100
40	Lorenzo	22	new	>100
41	Max	22	↑5	>100
42	Arturo	21	↓1	>100
43	Ralph	21	↑1	23
44	Samuel	21	new	44
45	Tom	21	↓16	>100
46	Walter	21	new	15
47	Sam	20	new	85
48	Alberto	19	new	>100
49	Benito	19	new	>100
50	Benjamin	19	↓2	82

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