Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1925

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1925 were Mary for girls (392 babies) and Jose for boys (196). Jose ranked outside the top 100 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 8,269 babies born in New Mexico in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1925

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: 23 babies, 74.4× the national rate
Eloisa: 17 babies, 65.7× the national rate
Emilia: 18 babies, 38.5× the national rate
Ramona: 41 babies, 25.3× the national rate
Manuela: 17 babies, 24× the national rate
Antonia: 23 babies, 22.8× the national rate
Margarita: 20 babies, 19.9× the national rate
Lupe: 23 babies, 17.4× the national rate
Aurora: 19 babies, 15.5× the national rate
Guadalupe: 21 babies, 15.2× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 16 babies, 99.7× the national rate
Arturo: 19 babies, 42.2× the national rate
Jose: 196 babies, 38.8× the national rate
Ernesto: 15 babies, 36.1× the national rate
Alfredo: 22 babies, 30.6× the national rate
Luis: 27 babies, 28.8× the national rate
Ramon: 46 babies, 27× the national rate
Juan: 59 babies, 23.6× the national rate
Lorenzo: 19 babies, 23.6× the national rate
Antonio: 50 babies, 20.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	392	–	1
2	Maria	122	–	>100
3	Helen	101	↑1	4
4	Margaret	89	↓1	5
5	Frances	79	–	11
6	Josephine	77	↑4	36
7	Betty	75	↓1	3
8	Dorothy	68	↓1	2
9	Alice	60	↑4	15
10	Juanita	56	↓2	49
11	Emma	54	↑1	57
12	Virginia	54	↓3	7
13	Ruth	47	↑2	6
14	Carmen	45	–	>100
15	Julia	43	↑14	65
16	Lucy	43	↓5	>100
17	Marie	43	↓1	16
18	Ramona	41	↑21	>100
19	Elizabeth	40	↑14	10
20	Isabel	38	–	>100
21	Rose	35	↓3	26
22	Beatrice	34	↑25	50
23	Jennie	34	↑21	>100
24	Anna	32	↑4	13
25	Clara	32	↑17	55
26	Irene	32	↑17	19
27	Stella	31	↓8	>100
28	Anita	30	new	>100
29	Eva	30	↑5	71
30	Ida	30	↑20	82
31	Flora	29	↑4	>100
32	Martha	29	↓15	23
33	Cecilia	28	↑4	>100
34	Dolores	28	↓2	64
35	Esther	28	↑3	56
36	Louise	27	↓10	27
37	Annie	26	↓15	32
38	Gloria	25	new	20
39	Rita	25	new	48
40	Viola	25	↑5	84
41	Grace	24	new	44
42	Mildred	24	↓15	9
43	Ruby	24	↓3	30
44	Adelina	23	new	>100
45	Antonia	23	↑1	>100
46	Elvira	23	↓16	>100
47	Lupe	23	new	>100
48	Nellie	23	↓12	98
49	Bertha	22	new	74
50	Elsie	22	↓2	63

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Jose	196	–	>100
2	John	171	↑1	2
3	Joe	154	↓1	34
4	Robert	128	–	1
5	James	95	–	4
6	William	91	↑2	3
7	Manuel	87	–	>100
8	Frank	79	↓2	12
9	George	71	↑3	6
10	Jack	63	↑14	17
11	Charles	60	↓2	5
12	Juan	59	↓2	>100
13	Henry	57	↑1	18
14	Antonio	50	↓3	>100
15	Daniel	47	↑12	44
16	Ramon	46	–	>100
17	Richard	44	↑5	8
18	Paul	43	–	13
19	Albert	42	↑6	21
20	Edward	42	↑8	9
21	Raymond	42	↑5	15
22	Joseph	41	↓5	7
23	Tony	40	↑14	>100
24	Jesus	37	↑7	>100
25	Louis	36	↓10	29
26	Arthur	35	↓3	20
27	David	33	↓8	22
28	Ernest	33	↓15	37
29	Fred	33	–	33
30	Willie	32	↑3	27
31	Carlos	27	new	>100
32	Luis	27	↓12	>100
33	Thomas	27	↓12	11
34	Gilbert	26	↑6	>100
35	Leo	25	new	54
36	Samuel	25	↑11	46
37	Pete	24	↓2	>100
38	Francisco	23	new	>100
39	Sam	23	new	91
40	Alfredo	22	↑5	>100
41	Bennie	22	↑1	>100
42	Billy	22	new	49
43	Martin	21	new	83
44	Max	21	↓6	>100
45	Roy	21	↓11	32
46	Kenneth	20	new	19
47	Ralph	20	new	25
48	Tom	20	↓4	>100
49	Arturo	19	new	>100
50	Donald	19	↓7	10

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