Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1932

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1932 were Mary for girls (402 babies) and Joe for boys (214). Joe ranked #29 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 9,486 babies born in New Mexico in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1932

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: 16 babies, 73.7× the national rate
Angie: 25 babies, 24.3× the national rate
Consuelo: 23 babies, 21.1× the national rate
Aurora: 23 babies, 20.3× the national rate
Evangeline: 18 babies, 18.7× the national rate
Josie: 24 babies, 18.6× the national rate
Margarita: 20 babies, 17.7× the national rate
Lupe: 25 babies, 15× the national rate
Maria: 123 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Isabel: 30 babies, 13.1× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 22 babies, 98.6× the national rate
Ernesto: 18 babies, 31.4× the national rate
Arturo: 21 babies, 29.4× the national rate
Jose: 168 babies, 28× the national rate
Alfonso: 37 babies, 25.1× the national rate
Miguel: 18 babies, 23.1× the national rate
Alfredo: 23 babies, 22.6× the national rate
Pablo: 16 babies, 20× the national rate
Luis: 26 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Ramon: 53 babies, 18.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	402	–	1
2	Betty	144	–	2
3	Maria	123	–	>100
4	Helen	82	↑1	8
5	Margaret	75	↑1	7
6	Alice	72	↑3	21
7	Lucy	60	↑4	>100
8	Dorothy	57	↓1	4
9	Virginia	57	↓1	14
10	Barbara	55	↑5	3
11	Frances	54	↓7	19
12	Rose	50	–	33
13	Dolores	47	↓3	18
14	Juanita	47	–	58
15	Dora	46	↑12	>100
16	Emma	42	↑5	76
17	Ruth	42	↑6	11
18	Annie	40	↑1	41
19	Stella	39	↓2	>100
20	Martha	37	↓7	27
21	Ramona	37	↓3	>100
22	Gloria	36	↑6	25
23	Josephine	36	↓7	57
24	Joan	35	↑23	5
25	Viola	35	↑4	>100
26	Eva	33	↑23	98
27	Marie	31	↑5	31
28	Nancy	31	new	13
29	Nellie	31	new	>100
30	Isabel	30	↑4	>100
31	Louise	30	↑19	36
32	Pauline	29	↑3	59
33	Carmen	27	↓13	>100
34	Elizabeth	27	new	17
35	Evelyn	27	new	23
36	Flora	27	↓5	>100
37	Jennie	27	↑1	>100
38	Rosa	27	new	>100
39	Teresa	27	new	>100
40	Angelina	26	↑2	>100
41	Ida	26	↑5	>100
42	Irene	26	↓17	43
43	Patsy	26	↑2	77
44	Sally	26	new	84
45	Angie	25	new	>100
46	Anna	25	↓3	24
47	Bertha	25	new	>100
48	Clara	25	new	70
49	Lupe	25	↓8	>100
50	Norma	25	new	22

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Joe	214	–	29
2	Jose	168	–	>100
3	Robert	158	↑1	1
4	John	141	↓1	3
5	James	110	–	2
6	Manuel	105	↑2	>100
7	Frank	81	↓1	15
8	William	80	↓1	4
9	Charles	78	↑2	6
10	Richard	77	↑2	5
11	David	74	↑3	12
12	George	66	↓3	8
13	Tony	64	↑7	>100
14	Donald	58	↑8	7
15	Raymond	58	↑1	19
16	Billy	56	↓3	20
17	Ramon	53	↑6	>100
18	Henry	52	↑1	23
19	Juan	52	↓9	>100
20	Thomas	49	↑12	10
21	Edward	47	↑7	11
22	Antonio	42	↓7	>100
23	Arthur	42	↓6	25
24	Fred	42	↑9	33
25	Paul	41	↑2	13
26	Albert	40	↑3	26
27	Gilbert	40	↓9	97
28	Alfonso	37	↑16	>100
29	Louis	37	↓4	39
30	Ernest	36	↓4	47
31	Jesus	35	↓1	>100
32	Leo	35	↑14	74
33	Johnny	34	↑15	96
34	Jack	33	↓10	17
35	Bobby	31	↓14	30
36	Jimmy	30	↑6	76
37	Bill	29	↓1	58
38	Jerry	29	new	34
39	Joseph	29	↓8	9
40	Pete	29	new	>100
41	Jimmie	28	–	75
42	Tommy	28	↑1	>100
43	Willie	28	↑6	31
44	Lawrence	27	new	35
45	Daniel	26	↓11	42
46	Eugene	26	new	22
47	Luis	26	↓12	>100
48	Roy	26	↓1	38
49	Carlos	25	new	>100
50	Harold	25	new	18

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