Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1931

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1931 were Mary for girls (389 babies) and Joe for boys (208). Joe ranked #29 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 9,059 babies born in New Mexico in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1931

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, 65.6× the national rate
Josie: 34 babies, 23.7× the national rate
Antonia: 20 babies, 20.3× the national rate
Consuelo: 25 babies, 18.7× the national rate
Lupe: 26 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Isabel: 31 babies, 13× the national rate
Maria: 110 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Cecilia: 19 babies, 9.8× the national rate
Angelina: 25 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Carmen: 36 babies, 9.1× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 26 babies, 106.1× the national rate
Santiago: 15 babies, 33.3× the national rate
Arturo: 20 babies, 29.5× the national rate
Jose: 167 babies, 28.1× the national rate
Luis: 32 babies, 26.6× the national rate
Lorenzo: 21 babies, 24.9× the national rate
Ernesto: 15 babies, 24.1× the national rate
Juan: 78 babies, 24× the national rate
Fernando: 18 babies, 23.2× the national rate
Antonio: 54 babies, 19.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	389	–	1
2	Betty	172	–	2
3	Maria	110	–	>100
4	Frances	92	↑5	18
5	Helen	92	↓1	6
6	Margaret	86	–	7
7	Dorothy	63	↑3	3
8	Virginia	58	↓1	12
9	Alice	55	↓4	21
10	Dolores	54	↑2	14
11	Lucy	53	↓3	>100
12	Rose	48	↓1	30
13	Martha	47	↑14	28
14	Juanita	44	↑1	57
15	Barbara	43	↑4	4
16	Josephine	41	↓2	51
17	Stella	40	↓4	>100
18	Ramona	38	↑10	>100
19	Annie	37	↑3	41
20	Carmen	36	↑1	>100
21	Emma	36	↓3	76
22	Julia	36	↑28	91
23	Ruth	36	↓7	11
24	Esther	34	↓7	79
25	Irene	34	↑21	37
26	Josie	34	–	>100
27	Dora	33	↑18	>100
28	Gloria	33	↓5	23
29	Viola	33	↓4	>100
30	Elsie	32	↑14	86
31	Flora	32	↓11	>100
32	Marie	32	↑2	27
33	Wanda	32	↑7	54
34	Isabel	31	↓2	>100
35	Pauline	31	new	56
36	Rita	31	new	48
37	Billie	29	↑10	81
38	Jennie	29	↓9	>100
39	Patricia	28	new	8
40	Doris	27	↑3	10
41	Lupe	26	new	>100
42	Angelina	25	new	>100
43	Anna	25	new	25
44	Consuelo	25	↓7	>100
45	Patsy	25	new	83
46	Ida	24	↓15	100
47	Joan	24	new	5
48	Rosie	24	new	>100
49	Eva	23	↓19	94
50	Louise	23	↓17	33

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Joe	208	–	29
2	Jose	167	–	>100
3	John	148	–	3
4	Robert	132	↑1	1
5	James	118	↓1	2
6	Frank	92	↑2	16
7	William	87	–	4
8	Manuel	85	↓2	>100
9	George	81	↑1	8
10	Juan	78	↓1	>100
11	Charles	74	–	6
12	Richard	60	↑1	5
13	Billy	58	↑2	19
14	David	56	–	13
15	Antonio	54	↑1	>100
16	Raymond	50	↓4	17
17	Arthur	49	↑11	23
18	Gilbert	49	↑9	92
19	Henry	48	↓2	22
20	Tony	48	↑3	>100
21	Bobby	47	new	32
22	Donald	46	↑8	7
23	Ramon	46	↓5	>100
24	Jack	40	↑2	15
25	Louis	39	↓3	37
26	Ernest	38	↓5	47
27	Paul	37	↓7	12
28	Edward	36	↓9	11
29	Albert	35	↓4	24
30	Jesus	35	↓1	>100
31	Joseph	34	↑19	9
32	Thomas	34	↑1	10
33	Fred	33	↓2	33
34	Daniel	32	↑5	44
35	Luis	32	↓3	>100
36	Bill	31	↑2	57
37	Kenneth	31	new	14
38	Bennie	30	↑6	>100
39	Mike	30	↑8	>100
40	Francisco	29	new	>100
41	Jimmie	27	↑4	81
42	Jimmy	27	new	89
43	Tommy	27	new	>100
44	Alfonso	26	↓8	>100
45	Eloy	26	new	>100
46	Leo	26	–	69
47	Roy	26	↑1	35
48	Johnny	24	↓24	>100
49	Willie	24	↓14	31
50	Benjamin	23	new	>100

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