Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1926

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1926 were Mary for girls (342 babies) and Joe for boys (164). Joe ranked #33 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 7,669 babies born in New Mexico in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1926

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, 78.4× the national rate
Manuela: 21 babies, 33.2× the national rate
Antonia: 26 babies, 23.8× the national rate
Consuelo: 26 babies, 22.8× the national rate
Ramona: 35 babies, 22.5× the national rate
Lupe: 28 babies, 21.9× the national rate
Margarita: 18 babies, 18× the national rate
Maria: 110 babies, 14× the national rate
Guadalupe: 17 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Josie: 17 babies, 12.6× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 15 babies, 128× the national rate
Vicente: 16 babies, 60.5× the national rate
Ignacio: 16 babies, 35.9× the national rate
Ernesto: 16 babies, 34.6× the national rate
Orlando: 17 babies, 34.1× the national rate
Arturo: 16 babies, 32.7× the national rate
Jose: 160 babies, 32.4× the national rate
Juan: 68 babies, 31.4× the national rate
Pablo: 21 babies, 31.4× the national rate
Miguel: 16 babies, 24.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	342	–	1
2	Maria	110	–	>100
3	Margaret	84	↑1	5
4	Betty	80	↑3	3
5	Helen	76	↓2	4
6	Lucy	65	↑10	>100
7	Dorothy	64	↑1	2
8	Rose	58	↑13	25
9	Alice	53	–	17
10	Frances	50	↓5	10
11	Juanita	48	↓1	52
12	Virginia	48	–	8
13	Ruth	46	–	6
14	Josephine	41	↓8	37
15	Marie	36	↑2	18
16	Annie	35	↑21	34
17	Julia	35	↓2	75
18	Martha	35	↑14	24
19	Ramona	35	↓1	>100
20	Stella	34	↑7	>100
21	Ida	30	↑9	82
22	Dora	29	new	>100
23	Emma	29	↓12	59
24	Esther	29	↑11	62
25	Eva	29	↑4	79
26	Isabel	29	↓6	>100
27	Dolores	28	↑7	49
28	Jennie	28	↓5	>100
29	Lupe	28	↑18	>100
30	Mildred	28	↑12	9
31	Antonia	26	↑14	>100
32	Consuelo	26	new	>100
33	Flora	26	↓2	>100
34	Bessie	25	new	89
35	Clara	25	↓10	61
36	Elizabeth	25	↓17	11
37	Viola	25	↑3	97
38	Carmen	24	↓24	>100
39	Elsie	24	↑11	69
40	Gloria	24	↓2	20
41	Adelina	23	↑3	>100
42	Grace	23	↓1	46
43	Irene	22	↓17	21
44	Louise	22	↓8	27
45	Nellie	22	↑3	>100
46	Pauline	22	new	39
47	Rosa	22	new	>100
48	Ruby	22	↓5	30
49	Barbara	21	new	16
50	Elvira	21	↓4	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Joe	164	↑2	33
2	Jose	160	↓1	>100
3	John	143	↓1	2
4	Manuel	108	↑3	>100
5	Frank	104	↑3	12
6	Robert	101	↓2	1
7	George	83	↑2	6
8	James	82	↓3	3
9	William	77	↓3	4
10	Juan	68	↑2	>100
11	Charles	62	–	5
12	Antonio	48	↑2	>100
13	Paul	44	↑5	13
14	Ramon	43	↑2	>100
15	Albert	42	↑4	21
16	Fred	41	↑13	31
17	Arthur	36	↑9	20
18	Daniel	36	↓3	46
19	David	36	↑8	22
20	Joseph	36	↑2	8
21	Richard	36	↓4	7
22	Henry	35	↓9	19
23	Jack	35	↓13	16
24	Jesus	32	–	>100
25	Thomas	32	↑8	11
26	Billy	30	↑16	40
27	Raymond	30	↓6	15
28	Gilbert	29	↑6	>100
29	Louis	29	↓4	30
30	Tony	29	↓7	>100
31	Leo	28	↑4	54
32	Willie	28	↓2	28
33	Ernest	27	↓5	37
34	Pete	27	↑3	>100
35	Roy	26	↑10	34
36	Francisco	25	↑2	>100
37	Alfred	24	new	45
38	Carlos	24	↓7	>100
39	Luis	24	↓7	>100
40	Benjamin	23	new	98
41	Edward	23	↓21	10
42	Ralph	23	↑5	24
43	Harry	22	new	25
44	Alfonso	21	new	>100
45	Ben	21	new	>100
46	Bill	21	new	74
47	Felix	21	new	>100
48	Pablo	21	new	>100
49	Tom	21	↓1	>100
50	Donald	20	–	9

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