Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1928

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1928 were Mary for girls (380 babies) and Jose for boys (199). Jose ranked outside the top 100 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 8,713 babies born in New Mexico in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1928

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: 15 babies, 69.6× the national rate
Socorro: 15 babies, 27.7× the national rate
Tillie: 20 babies, 27.3× the national rate
Lupe: 26 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Consuelo: 25 babies, 17.8× the national rate
Josie: 23 babies, 17× the national rate
Antonia: 17 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Isabel: 32 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Maria: 114 babies, 12× the national rate
Aurora: 16 babies, 11.9× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 26 babies, 127.5× the national rate
Andres: 17 babies, 35.1× the national rate
Ernesto: 19 babies, 33.2× the national rate
Santiago: 18 babies, 31.9× the national rate
Jose: 199 babies, 28.1× the national rate
Ignacio: 15 babies, 26.8× the national rate
Alfredo: 30 babies, 26.7× the national rate
Miguel: 21 babies, 23.2× the national rate
Alfonso: 28 babies, 20.9× the national rate
Juan: 71 babies, 20.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	380	–	1
2	Maria	114	–	>100
3	Betty	110	–	2
4	Helen	95	–	4
5	Margaret	89	–	5
6	Frances	85	↑6	13
7	Alice	71	↑3	19
8	Lucy	67	–	>100
9	Dorothy	57	↓3	3
10	Virginia	54	↓1	9
11	Josephine	49	↓4	42
12	Juanita	49	↑1	58
13	Emma	47	↓2	67
14	Dolores	46	↑6	20
15	Rose	46	↓1	24
16	Marie	43	↑11	21
17	Carmen	41	↑6	>100
18	Stella	39	↑4	>100
19	Esther	38	↑14	66
20	Dora	33	↓2	>100
21	Elizabeth	33	new	14
22	Elsie	33	↑4	73
23	Eva	32	↑11	79
24	Isabel	32	new	>100
25	Annie	30	↑14	37
26	Evelyn	30	new	17
27	Julia	30	↓3	80
28	Rita	30	new	57
29	Irene	29	↑11	28
30	Jennie	29	↓14	>100
31	Ramona	29	↓10	>100
32	Martha	28	↓4	22
33	Rosa	28	↑11	>100
34	Ruth	27	↓15	6
35	Lupe	26	new	>100
36	Clara	25	↑1	65
37	Consuelo	25	new	>100
38	Doris	25	–	7
39	Patricia	25	new	11
40	Rosie	25	↑6	>100
41	Ruby	25	new	34
42	Barbara	24	↓17	8
43	Ida	24	new	87
44	Beatrice	23	↓12	70
45	Josie	23	↓15	>100
46	Anita	22	↓1	>100
47	Gloria	22	↓5	25
48	Pauline	22	↓7	48
49	Cecilia	21	↓34	>100
50	Flora	21	–	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Jose	199	↑1	>100
2	Joe	176	↓1	30
3	John	157	–	2
4	James	119	–	3
5	Robert	119	–	1
6	Manuel	106	–	>100
7	Frank	102	–	12
8	William	80	–	4
9	George	78	–	8
10	Juan	71	–	>100
11	Charles	66	–	5
12	Antonio	59	↑3	>100
13	David	53	↑7	19
14	Paul	52	–	13
15	Gilbert	50	↑13	96
16	Henry	49	↑1	21
17	Jack	48	↑9	15
18	Tony	48	↑1	>100
19	Jesus	45	↑16	>100
20	Ramon	44	↓2	>100
21	Raymond	44	↓8	16
22	Billy	43	↑12	27
23	Louis	43	↑4	32
24	Richard	43	↓12	6
25	Albert	42	↓2	23
26	Ernest	36	↓5	43
27	Edward	35	↑2	10
28	Willie	34	↑16	29
29	Daniel	33	↑12	47
30	Harry	32	new	26
31	Thomas	32	↑5	11
32	Leo	31	new	61
33	Alfredo	30	new	>100
34	Alfred	29	↑12	33
35	Joseph	29	↓11	9
36	Ralph	29	↑14	24
37	Alfonso	28	new	>100
38	Donald	28	↓1	7
39	Pedro	28	↓8	>100
40	Fred	27	↓24	36
41	Pete	27	↓2	>100
42	Arthur	26	↓20	22
43	Eloy	26	↓1	>100
44	Ray	26	new	57
45	Carlos	25	↑2	>100
46	Jimmie	25	new	100
47	Kenneth	24	new	17
48	Luis	24	↓23	>100
49	Bennie	23	↓9	>100
50	Johnnie	22	new	>100

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