Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1929

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1929 were Mary for girls (394 babies) and Joe for boys (193). Joe ranked #30 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 8,395 babies born in New Mexico in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1929

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: 23 babies, 98.9× the national rate
Eloisa: 15 babies, 49× the national rate
Manuela: 15 babies, 23.5× the national rate
Josie: 29 babies, 21.6× the national rate
Antonia: 22 babies, 20.6× the national rate
Cecilia: 29 babies, 15.7× the national rate
Consuelo: 16 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Maria: 116 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Carmen: 46 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Isabel: 27 babies, 10.9× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 21 babies, 96.1× the national rate
Ernesto: 18 babies, 31× the national rate
Ignacio: 15 babies, 29× the national rate
Miguel: 25 babies, 25.7× the national rate
Jose: 167 babies, 24.8× the national rate
Juan: 71 babies, 20.4× the national rate
Francisco: 40 babies, 19× the national rate
Luis: 28 babies, 18.7× the national rate
Arturo: 15 babies, 18.5× the national rate
Rodolfo: 15 babies, 18.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	394	–	1
2	Maria	116	–	100
3	Betty	111	–	2
4	Margaret	69	↑1	5
5	Helen	68	↓1	4
6	Alice	60	↑1	21
7	Rose	59	↑8	26
8	Frances	57	↓2	16
9	Dolores	53	↑5	14
10	Josephine	52	↑1	45
11	Lucy	49	↓3	>100
12	Virginia	49	↓2	11
13	Carmen	46	↑4	>100
14	Ruth	46	↑20	8
15	Dorothy	45	↓6	3
16	Juanita	45	↓4	60
17	Emma	41	↓4	69
18	Barbara	39	↑24	7
19	Julia	39	↑8	88
20	Marie	39	↓4	22
21	Stella	37	↓3	>100
22	Pauline	35	↑26	50
23	Irene	34	↑6	29
24	Annie	32	↑1	37
25	Gloria	31	↑22	28
26	Dora	30	↓6	>100
27	Martha	30	↑5	27
28	Ramona	30	↑3	>100
29	Anita	29	↑17	>100
30	Cecilia	29	↑19	>100
31	Josie	29	↑14	>100
32	Esther	28	↓13	71
33	Isabel	27	↓9	>100
34	Flora	26	↑16	>100
35	Elizabeth	25	↓14	15
36	Ida	25	↑7	96
37	Ruby	25	↑4	36
38	Priscilla	24	new	>100
39	Viola	24	new	>100
40	Erlinda	23	new	>100
41	Rosa	23	↓8	>100
42	Anna	22	new	20
43	Antonia	22	new	>100
44	Beatrice	22	–	72
45	Eva	22	↓22	83
46	Rita	22	↓18	52
47	Sally	22	new	>100
48	Jean	21	new	12
49	Theresa	21	new	49
50	Doris	20	↓12	6

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Joe	193	↑1	30
2	Jose	167	↓1	>100
3	Robert	130	↑2	1
4	John	125	↓1	3
5	Manuel	117	↑1	>100
6	James	110	↓2	2
7	Frank	108	–	12
8	William	90	–	4
9	Juan	71	↑1	>100
10	George	66	↓1	8
11	Richard	66	↑13	6
12	Charles	61	↓1	5
13	David	60	–	17
14	Raymond	52	↑7	15
15	Tony	51	↑3	>100
16	Antonio	49	↓4	>100
17	Gilbert	48	↓2	91
18	Arthur	47	↑24	22
19	Edward	44	↑8	10
20	Francisco	40	new	>100
21	Louis	40	↑2	32
22	Ramon	39	↓2	>100
23	Billy	38	↓1	23
24	Ralph	38	↑12	26
25	Joseph	37	↑10	9
26	Daniel	36	↑3	47
27	Fred	36	↑13	34
28	Henry	36	↓12	21
29	Paul	36	↓15	13
30	Thomas	36	↑1	11
31	Donald	35	↑7	7
32	Ernest	35	↓6	43
33	Jack	35	↓16	14
34	Albert	31	↓9	24
35	Roy	31	new	35
36	Pedro	29	↑3	>100
37	Alfred	28	↓3	41
38	Bobby	28	new	50
39	Carlos	28	↑6	>100
40	Jesus	28	↓21	>100
41	Luis	28	↑7	>100
42	Pete	28	↓1	>100
43	Tom	27	new	>100
44	Willie	27	↓16	29
45	Felix	26	new	>100
46	Harry	25	↓16	27
47	Miguel	25	new	>100
48	Alfonso	24	↓11	>100
49	Max	24	new	>100
50	Mike	24	new	>100

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