Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1930

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1930 were Mary for girls (389 babies) and Joe for boys (171). Joe ranked #27 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 9,062 babies born in New Mexico in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1930

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: 18 babies, 68.3× the national rate
Eloisa: 15 babies, 46.9× the national rate
Josie: 35 babies, 24.3× the national rate
Manuela: 15 babies, 23.7× the national rate
Consuelo: 28 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Antonia: 18 babies, 17.3× the national rate
Aurora: 17 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Isabel: 30 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Maria: 114 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Guadalupe: 17 babies, 9.8× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 21 babies, 91.5× the national rate
Ernesto: 28 babies, 40.7× the national rate
Jose: 154 babies, 23.5× the national rate
Rafael: 20 babies, 22.8× the national rate
Juan: 84 babies, 22.6× the national rate
Luis: 33 babies, 21.6× the national rate
Alfonso: 30 babies, 19.6× the national rate
Pablo: 16 babies, 18.7× the national rate
Lorenzo: 15 babies, 17.3× the national rate
Manuel: 106 babies, 17× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	389	–	1
2	Betty	151	↑1	2
3	Maria	114	↓1	99
4	Helen	94	↑1	4
5	Alice	82	↑1	20
6	Margaret	77	↓2	5
7	Virginia	67	↑5	12
8	Lucy	66	↑3	>100
9	Frances	61	↓1	16
10	Dorothy	59	↑5	3
11	Rose	58	↓4	29
12	Dolores	51	↓3	13
13	Stella	47	↑8	>100
14	Josephine	46	↓4	49
15	Juanita	45	↑1	57
16	Ruth	43	↓2	10
17	Esther	41	↑15	77
18	Emma	40	↓1	73
19	Barbara	39	↓1	6
20	Flora	38	↑14	>100
21	Carmen	37	↓8	>100
22	Annie	36	↑2	40
23	Gloria	36	↑2	30
24	Ruby	36	↑13	36
25	Viola	36	↑14	>100
26	Josie	35	↑5	>100
27	Martha	33	–	27
28	Ramona	33	–	>100
29	Jennie	32	new	>100
30	Eva	31	↑15	86
31	Ida	30	↑5	94
32	Isabel	30	↑1	>100
33	Louise	30	new	31
34	Marie	30	↓14	26
35	Vera	29	new	>100
36	Bertha	28	new	95
37	Consuelo	28	new	>100
38	Beatrice	27	↑6	76
39	Norma	27	new	25
40	Wanda	27	new	56
41	Anita	26	↓12	>100
42	Bessie	26	new	>100
43	Doris	26	↑7	9
44	Elsie	26	new	88
45	Dora	25	↓19	>100
46	Irene	25	↓23	33
47	Billie	24	new	79
48	Clara	24	new	64
49	Grace	24	new	62
50	Julia	24	↓31	90

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Joe	171	–	27
2	Jose	154	–	>100
3	John	140	↑1	3
4	James	120	↑2	2
5	Robert	113	↓2	1
6	Manuel	106	↓1	>100
7	William	97	↑1	4
8	Frank	94	↓1	13
9	Juan	84	–	>100
10	George	81	–	8
11	Charles	67	↑1	6
12	Raymond	61	↑2	16
13	Richard	59	↓2	5
14	David	58	↓1	15
15	Billy	55	↑8	20
16	Antonio	51	–	>100
17	Henry	49	↑11	22
18	Ramon	46	↑4	>100
19	Edward	44	–	10
20	Paul	44	↑9	12
21	Ernest	43	↑11	43
22	Louis	41	↓1	34
23	Tony	41	↓8	>100
24	Johnny	40	new	>100
25	Albert	39	↑9	24
26	Jack	38	↑7	14
27	Gilbert	37	↓10	90
28	Arthur	35	↓10	23
29	Jesus	35	↑11	>100
30	Donald	34	↑1	7
31	Fred	34	↓4	32
32	Luis	33	↑9	>100
33	Thomas	33	↓3	11
34	Harry	31	↑12	28
35	Willie	31	↑9	29
36	Alfonso	30	↑12	>100
37	Pedro	30	↓1	>100
38	Bill	28	new	59
39	Daniel	28	↓13	47
40	Ernesto	28	new	>100
41	Ralph	28	↓17	25
42	Sam	28	new	>100
43	Alfred	27	↓6	46
44	Bennie	27	new	>100
45	Jimmie	27	new	86
46	Leo	27	new	63
47	Mike	27	↑3	>100
48	Roy	25	↓13	33
49	Johnnie	24	new	>100
50	Joseph	24	↓25	9

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