Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1924

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1924 were Mary for girls (400 babies) and Jose for boys (217). Jose ranked outside the top 100 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 8,260 babies born in New Mexico in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1924

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: 19 babies, 95.7× the national rate
Adelina: 20 babies, 63.5× the national rate
Eloisa: 18 babies, 52.1× the national rate
Adela: 17 babies, 38.2× the national rate
Aurelia: 19 babies, 29.7× the national rate
Margarita: 20 babies, 21.3× the national rate
Antonia: 22 babies, 19.2× the national rate
Aurora: 23 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Ramona: 24 babies, 16.3× the national rate
Lupe: 21 babies, 16.3× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 30 babies, 147× the national rate
Jose: 217 babies, 44.3× the national rate
Ernesto: 19 babies, 41.9× the national rate
Santiago: 17 babies, 39.9× the national rate
Luis: 41 babies, 34.9× the national rate
Arturo: 16 babies, 30.7× the national rate
Alfredo: 21 babies, 29.1× the national rate
Ramon: 47 babies, 28.8× the national rate
Antonio: 64 babies, 26.4× the national rate
Juan: 67 babies, 25.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	400	–	1
2	Maria	121	–	>100
3	Margaret	101	↑1	5
4	Helen	93	↓1	3
5	Frances	89	–	10
6	Betty	78	↑5	4
7	Dorothy	69	↑2	2
8	Juanita	66	↑5	48
9	Virginia	61	↓3	7
10	Josephine	54	–	34
11	Lucy	54	↓4	98
12	Emma	53	↑18	57
13	Alice	50	↓5	15
14	Carmen	47	–	>100
15	Ruth	42	↑2	6
16	Marie	40	↑3	14
17	Martha	40	↑10	21
18	Rose	40	↓6	25
19	Stella	40	↓4	>100
20	Isabel	34	–	>100
21	Barbara	32	new	28
22	Annie	30	↑1	32
23	Dora	30	↑6	>100
24	Lillian	30	↑20	23
25	Pauline	30	↓3	38
26	Louise	29	↑9	24
27	Mildred	29	↑9	8
28	Anna	28	↑9	13
29	Julia	28	↑5	62
30	Elvira	27	↑1	>100
31	Doris	26	new	9
32	Dolores	25	↑10	75
33	Elizabeth	25	↓12	11
34	Eva	25	↑9	66
35	Flora	25	↓10	>100
36	Nellie	25	new	92
37	Cecilia	24	↑12	>100
38	Esther	24	↓20	51
39	Ramona	24	↓11	>100
40	Ruby	24	↑6	26
41	Aurora	23	↓2	>100
42	Clara	23	↓9	56
43	Irene	23	new	18
44	Jennie	23	↓28	>100
45	Viola	23	new	82
46	Antonia	22	↑2	>100
47	Beatrice	22	↓23	50
48	Elsie	22	↓10	61
49	Florence	22	new	20
50	Ida	22	↓24	70

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Jose	217	–	>100
2	Joe	156	↑1	35
3	John	155	↓1	2
4	Robert	132	–	1
5	James	109	–	4
6	Frank	105	↑1	12
7	Manuel	105	↓1	>100
8	William	98	↑2	3
9	Charles	71	–	5
10	Juan	67	↑1	>100
11	Antonio	64	↑1	>100
12	George	60	↓4	6
13	Ernest	49	↑8	37
14	Henry	48	↑8	18
15	Louis	48	↑4	28
16	Ramon	47	↑14	>100
17	Joseph	46	↓4	7
18	Paul	45	↑7	14
19	David	42	↓2	24
20	Luis	41	↑3	>100
21	Thomas	41	↓6	11
22	Richard	39	↑4	8
23	Arthur	38	↑1	20
24	Jack	38	↓8	17
25	Albert	37	↓5	21
26	Raymond	37	↓8	15
27	Daniel	36	↑1	47
28	Edward	35	↑1	9
29	Fred	34	↓15	32
30	Eloy	30	new	>100
31	Jesus	30	↑3	>100
32	Pedro	28	↑8	>100
33	Willie	28	↑15	30
34	Roy	27	new	31
35	Pete	26	new	>100
36	Mike	25	↑7	>100
37	Tony	25	↓10	>100
38	Max	24	↑4	>100
39	Ben	23	new	>100
40	Gilbert	23	↓5	100
41	Ray	23	new	60
42	Bennie	22	new	>100
43	Donald	22	new	10
44	Tom	22	↑3	>100
45	Alfredo	21	new	>100
46	Johnnie	21	new	>100
47	Samuel	21	new	45
48	Walter	21	↓11	16
49	Alfonso	20	↓18	>100
50	Harold	20	↓14	13

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