Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1922

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1922 were Mary for girls (378 babies) and Jose for boys (183). Jose ranked outside the top 100 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 8,311 babies born in New Mexico in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1922

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

Manuelita: 18 babies, 194.8× the national rate
Adelina: 21 babies, 70.3× the national rate
Eloisa: 19 babies, 53.5× the national rate
Adela: 17 babies, 39.9× the national rate
Antonia: 29 babies, 29.1× the national rate
Ramona: 31 babies, 25.7× the national rate
Carmen: 60 babies, 21.6× the national rate
Lupe: 23 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Aurora: 17 babies, 17× the national rate
Tillie: 18 babies, 15.5× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 29 babies, 153× the national rate
Santiago: 22 babies, 65.1× the national rate
Ernesto: 18 babies, 46.1× the national rate
Alfredo: 27 babies, 43× the national rate
Pablo: 22 babies, 42.6× the national rate
Arturo: 18 babies, 42.5× the national rate
Jose: 183 babies, 39.2× the national rate
Ignacio: 16 babies, 36.2× the national rate
Juan: 76 babies, 33× the national rate
Miguel: 19 babies, 31.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	378	–	1
2	Helen	107	↑1	3
3	Margaret	100	↑1	4
4	Maria	95	↓2	>100
5	Frances	74	–	10
6	Alice	73	↑9	15
7	Lucy	71	↑4	93
8	Dorothy	64	↓1	2
9	Carmen	60	↑11	>100
10	Josephine	58	↓4	27
11	Virginia	56	↓2	7
12	Rose	53	–	23
13	Juanita	52	↓3	57
14	Emma	51	–	50
15	Ruth	49	↓7	5
16	Betty	46	↑1	6
17	Julia	45	↑11	60
18	Mildred	44	↑3	8
19	Marie	43	↓3	14
20	Ruby	41	new	26
21	Elsie	40	↑29	59
22	Martha	40	↓9	21
23	Stella	40	↑11	88
24	Eva	38	↑8	64
25	Flora	38	↑10	>100
26	Jennie	38	↓3	>100
27	Annie	34	↓8	30
28	Beatrice	32	↑11	43
29	Elizabeth	31	↑12	9
30	Ramona	31	↓1	>100
31	Bessie	30	new	81
32	Isabel	30	↑1	>100
33	Antonia	29	↑15	>100
34	Pauline	28	↓9	36
35	Louise	27	↑12	22
36	Rosie	27	new	>100
37	Bertha	25	↑7	63
38	Lucille	25	new	33
39	Nellie	25	↓1	83
40	Anna	24	↓10	12
41	Dolores	24	↓1	>100
42	Doris	24	new	11
43	Grace	23	new	38
44	Ida	23	new	65
45	Irene	23	↓27	17
46	Lupe	23	new	>100
47	Susie	23	new	>100
48	Dora	22	↓24	>100
49	Edna	22	new	29
50	Esther	22	new	44

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Jose	183	–	>100
2	John	167	↑1	1
3	Joe	152	↓1	35
4	James	117	↑3	4
5	Frank	110	↑1	10
6	Robert	110	↓1	2
7	William	107	↓3	3
8	Manuel	89	–	>100
9	George	84	–	6
10	Juan	76	–	>100
11	Charles	70	↑1	5
12	Antonio	66	↓1	>100
13	Joseph	50	↑6	7
14	Edward	47	↑8	8
15	Arthur	44	↑1	19
16	David	42	↑8	24
17	Fred	42	↑16	33
18	Thomas	42	–	11
19	Ernest	41	↑2	37
20	Albert	40	–	20
21	Henry	40	↓8	17
22	Jack	40	↓8	18
23	Paul	39	↑2	14
24	Ramon	37	↑3	>100
25	Raymond	37	↓10	16
26	Richard	34	↓9	9
27	Tony	34	↓4	>100
28	Willie	33	↑2	28
29	Daniel	31	↑6	47
30	Louis	30	↑2	27
31	Eloy	29	↑8	>100
32	Jesus	29	↓6	>100
33	Roy	28	↓4	32
34	Alfredo	27	↑3	>100
35	Tom	27	↑10	>100
36	Alfonso	26	↓5	>100
37	Lawrence	26	new	36
38	Ralph	26	↑5	23
39	Bennie	25	new	>100
40	Julian	25	new	>100
41	Luis	25	↓13	>100
42	Gilbert	24	↓6	100
43	Pete	24	new	>100
44	Carl	22	new	30
45	Clarence	22	new	29
46	Eugene	22	new	25
47	Pablo	22	new	>100
48	Santiago	22	new	>100
49	Donald	21	new	12
50	Harold	21	new	13

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