Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1927

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1927 were Mary for girls (395 babies) and Joe for boys (190). Joe ranked #30 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 8,370 babies born in New Mexico in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1927

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: 20 babies, 103.6× the national rate
Josie: 28 babies, 19.5× the national rate
Tillie: 15 babies, 19.4× the national rate
Cecilia: 37 babies, 16.1× the national rate
Ramona: 32 babies, 16.1× the national rate
Aurora: 20 babies, 15.8× the national rate
Maria: 137 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Consuelo: 17 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Antonia: 15 babies, 12.8× the national rate
Lupe: 19 babies, 12.2× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 24 babies, 113.4× the national rate
Ernesto: 19 babies, 43× the national rate
Jose: 190 babies, 31.3× the national rate
Orlando: 15 babies, 29.7× the national rate
Arturo: 18 babies, 28.2× the national rate
Miguel: 21 babies, 28.1× the national rate
Roberto: 30 babies, 26.5× the national rate
Luis: 35 babies, 25.3× the national rate
Juan: 67 babies, 23.8× the national rate
Alfredo: 19 babies, 21.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	395	–	1
2	Maria	137	–	>100
3	Betty	107	↑1	3
4	Helen	81	↑1	4
5	Margaret	78	↓2	5
6	Dorothy	67	↑1	2
7	Josephine	59	↑7	39
8	Lucy	56	↓2	>100
9	Virginia	50	↑3	8
10	Alice	49	↓1	17
11	Emma	49	↑12	64
12	Frances	49	↓2	12
13	Juanita	49	↓2	55
14	Rose	46	↓6	23
15	Cecilia	37	new	>100
16	Jennie	36	↑12	>100
17	Viola	36	↑20	>100
18	Dora	35	↑4	>100
19	Ruth	35	↓6	6
20	Dolores	32	↑7	34
21	Ramona	32	↓2	>100
22	Stella	32	↓2	>100
23	Carmen	31	↑15	>100
24	Julia	31	↓7	76
25	Barbara	30	↑24	10
26	Elsie	30	↑13	72
27	Marie	30	↓12	20
28	Martha	30	↓10	24
29	Nellie	30	↑16	>100
30	Josie	28	new	>100
31	Mildred	28	↓1	11
32	Beatrice	27	new	67
33	Esther	27	↓9	65
34	Eva	26	↓9	79
35	Louise	26	↑9	27
36	Wanda	26	new	66
37	Clara	25	↓2	63
38	Doris	25	new	7
39	Annie	24	↓23	36
40	Irene	24	↑3	21
41	Pauline	24	↑5	42
42	Gloria	23	↓2	22
43	Lillian	23	new	32
44	Rosa	23	↑3	>100
45	Anita	22	new	>100
46	Rosie	22	new	>100
47	Theresa	22	new	52
48	Celia	21	new	>100
49	Della	21	new	>100
50	Flora	21	↓17	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Joe	190	–	30
2	Jose	190	–	>100
3	John	170	–	2
4	James	140	↑4	3
5	Robert	114	↑1	1
6	Manuel	96	↓2	>100
7	Frank	88	↓2	12
8	William	83	↑1	4
9	George	67	↓2	7
10	Juan	67	–	>100
11	Charles	56	–	5
12	Richard	56	↑9	6
13	Raymond	49	↑14	15
14	Paul	48	↓1	13
15	Antonio	45	↓3	>100
16	Fred	45	–	35
17	Henry	45	↑5	19
18	Ramon	40	↓4	>100
19	Tony	40	↑11	>100
20	David	39	↓1	21
21	Ernest	39	↑12	41
22	Arthur	37	↓5	22
23	Albert	36	↓8	23
24	Joseph	35	↓4	9
25	Luis	35	↑14	>100
26	Jack	34	↓3	16
27	Louis	34	↑2	29
28	Gilbert	32	–	99
29	Edward	31	↑12	10
30	Tom	31	↑19	>100
31	Pedro	30	new	>100
32	Roberto	30	new	>100
33	Francisco	29	↑3	>100
34	Billy	28	↓8	31
35	Jesus	27	↓11	>100
36	Thomas	27	↓11	11
37	Donald	26	↑13	8
38	Mike	26	new	>100
39	Pete	25	↓5	>100
40	Bennie	24	new	>100
41	Daniel	24	↓23	46
42	Eloy	24	new	>100
43	Roy	24	↓8	34
44	Willie	24	↓12	27
45	Lawrence	23	new	37
46	Alfred	22	↓9	45
47	Carlos	22	↓9	>100
48	Benjamin	21	↓8	>100
49	Miguel	21	new	>100
50	Ralph	21	↓8	24

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