Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1935

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1935 were Mary for girls (475 babies) and Joe for boys (216). Joe ranked #25 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 10,029 babies born in New Mexico in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1935

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: 27 babies, 82.1× the national rate
Angie: 21 babies, 21.7× the national rate
Isabel: 42 babies, 20.1× the national rate
Consuelo: 17 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Antonia: 19 babies, 18.2× the national rate
Josie: 32 babies, 17.3× the national rate
Aurora: 15 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Lupe: 25 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Cecilia: 29 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Angelina: 21 babies, 11.6× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 21 babies, 84.6× the national rate
Orlando: 20 babies, 42.7× the national rate
Ernesto: 20 babies, 32.8× the national rate
Emilio: 16 babies, 30.2× the national rate
Jose: 152 babies, 27.8× the national rate
Pablo: 17 babies, 26.7× the national rate
Salvador: 15 babies, 19.3× the national rate
Luis: 24 babies, 19× the national rate
Lorenzo: 18 babies, 18× the national rate
Manuel: 94 babies, 17.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Mary	475	–	1
2	Betty	129	–	4
3	Maria	108	–	>100
4	Helen	104	–	10
5	Shirley	92	↑12	2
6	Alice	87	↑1	25
7	Frances	81	↓1	19
8	Virginia	79	–	16
9	Barbara	73	↑2	3
10	Margaret	73	↓5	8
11	Dolores	67	↑2	26
12	Rose	67	↑2	37
13	Gloria	56	↓1	32
14	Dorothy	54	↓4	6
15	Lucy	49	↓6	>100
16	Emma	48	↑15	89
17	Martha	47	↑7	24
18	Nancy	47	↑17	9
19	Irene	43	↑10	52
20	Isabel	42	↑12	>100
21	Patricia	42	↑16	5
22	Ruth	41	↓1	15
23	Annie	40	↑21	38
24	Priscilla	40	↑15	>100
25	Elizabeth	38	new	17
26	Marie	38	↓6	33
27	Pauline	38	↑15	80
28	Ruby	38	new	41
29	Elsie	37	↑11	>100
30	Rosie	37	new	>100
31	Carmen	36	↓13	>100
32	Beatrice	35	↓2	>100
33	Juanita	35	↓18	72
34	Rita	35	↓18	63
35	Dora	34	new	>100
36	Norma	34	↑11	29
37	Stella	34	↓15	>100
38	Viola	34	↓13	>100
39	Esther	33	↓16	94
40	Clara	32	↑10	81
41	Eva	32	new	>100
42	Josephine	32	↓23	75
43	Josie	32	↓7	>100
44	Evelyn	30	new	31
45	Julia	30	↓12	>100
46	Bessie	29	↓3	>100
47	Cecilia	29	new	>100
48	Peggy	29	↓21	36
49	Jennie	28	new	>100
50	Theresa	28	new	86

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Joe	216	–	25
2	Robert	167	↑1	1
3	Jose	152	↓1	>100
4	James	126	–	2
5	John	119	–	3
6	Manuel	94	↑1	>100
7	Richard	93	↑2	5
8	Frank	85	↓2	16
9	George	85	↑5	8
10	Tony	70	↑5	>100
11	David	69	–	11
12	Gilbert	67	↑1	>100
13	William	66	↓3	4
14	Donald	64	↑3	7
15	Charles	63	↓7	6
16	Albert	61	↑18	31
17	Paul	59	↑16	14
18	Jerry	55	↑22	22
19	Billy	51	↓1	19
20	Raymond	50	↓8	17
21	Edward	46	–	13
22	Jimmy	44	↑3	47
23	Johnny	44	↑1	74
24	Arthur	43	↓4	29
25	Henry	43	↓3	27
26	Joseph	42	↑18	10
27	Louis	42	↓8	42
28	Antonio	41	↓2	>100
29	Fred	41	↓1	34
30	Ernest	40	↓7	55
31	Juan	40	↓15	>100
32	Thomas	38	↓2	9
33	Pete	36	↑9	>100
34	Willie	35	↑13	30
35	Ramon	34	↓6	>100
36	Carlos	33	new	>100
37	Jimmie	33	new	69
38	Larry	33	new	33
39	Bobby	32	↓2	24
40	Tommy	32	new	95
41	Jesus	30	↑4	>100
42	Ruben	30	↓6	>100
43	Alfred	29	new	63
44	Leo	29	↓12	92
45	Ray	29	new	64
46	Kenneth	28	↓19	15
47	Bill	27	↓12	60
48	Daniel	27	↓17	43
49	Rudy	27	–	>100
50	Harold	26	new	20

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