Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1936

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1936 were Mary for girls (431 babies) and Joe for boys (181). Joe ranked #23 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 10,007 babies born in New Mexico in 1936 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1936

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, 72.7× the national rate
Josie: 32 babies, 20.8× the national rate
Antonia: 19 babies, 18.6× the national rate
Angie: 18 babies, 17.8× the national rate
Lupe: 27 babies, 17.7× the national rate
Cecilia: 39 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Isabel: 24 babies, 13.7× the national rate
Flora: 31 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Maria: 81 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Ramona: 34 babies, 8.5× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 21 babies, 84.6× the national rate
Orlando: 25 babies, 51.9× the national rate
Ernesto: 25 babies, 36.2× the national rate
Jose: 152 babies, 27.4× the national rate
Arturo: 15 babies, 26.5× the national rate
Lorenzo: 21 babies, 22× the national rate
Alfredo: 17 babies, 19.5× the national rate
Luis: 22 babies, 19.4× the national rate
Juan: 53 babies, 18.4× the national rate
Alfonso: 24 babies, 16.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Mary	431	–	1
2	Helen	112	↑2	11
3	Betty	105	↓1	4
4	Barbara	98	↑5	3
5	Frances	84	↑2	19
6	Maria	81	↓3	>100
7	Shirley	81	↓2	2
8	Margaret	79	↑2	9
9	Alice	75	↓3	27
10	Virginia	61	↓2	14
11	Gloria	60	↑2	32
12	Dorothy	59	↑2	6
13	Rose	54	↓1	37
14	Dolores	50	↓3	30
15	Patricia	50	↑6	5
16	Juanita	46	↑17	75
17	Martha	46	–	24
18	Irene	44	↑1	57
19	Ida	43	new	>100
20	Nancy	43	↓2	8
21	Marie	41	↑5	33
22	Cecilia	39	↑25	>100
23	Patsy	39	new	52
24	Ruth	39	↓2	16
25	Dora	37	↑10	>100
26	Grace	36	new	86
27	Julia	36	↑18	>100
28	Lucy	36	↓13	>100
29	Ramona	34	new	>100
30	Viola	34	↑8	>100
31	Peggy	33	↑17	35
32	Josephine	32	↑10	77
33	Josie	32	↑10	>100
34	Joyce	32	new	12
35	Sally	32	new	59
36	Carmen	31	↓5	>100
37	Flora	31	new	>100
38	Pauline	31	↓11	82
39	Wanda	31	new	56
40	Beatrice	30	↓8	>100
41	Nellie	30	new	>100
42	Rita	30	↓8	69
43	Evelyn	29	↑1	34
44	Annie	28	↓21	45
45	Priscilla	28	↓21	>100
46	Elsie	27	↓17	>100
47	Lupe	27	new	>100
48	Carol	26	new	10
49	Clara	26	↓9	91
50	Emma	26	↓34	85

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Joe	181	–	23
2	Robert	172	–	1
3	Jose	152	–	>100
4	James	133	–	2
5	John	133	–	3
6	Richard	98	↑1	5
7	Frank	93	↑1	16
8	David	92	↑3	10
9	Manuel	88	↓3	>100
10	William	87	↑3	4
11	Charles	85	↑4	6
12	Donald	84	↑2	7
13	Henry	68	↑12	28
14	Jerry	67	↑4	18
15	Gilbert	65	↓3	>100
16	George	62	↓7	9
17	Raymond	60	↑3	17
18	Billy	59	↑1	22
19	Tony	58	↓9	>100
20	Ernest	57	↑10	55
21	Paul	55	↓4	15
22	Albert	54	↓6	34
23	Juan	53	↑8	>100
24	Johnny	51	↓1	72
25	Edward	50	↓4	13
26	Jimmy	48	↓4	46
27	Fred	45	↑2	36
28	Bobby	43	↑11	24
29	Louis	42	↓2	44
30	Roy	39	new	42
31	Eddie	38	new	79
32	Jimmie	36	↑5	71
33	Joseph	36	↓7	11
34	Arthur	35	↓10	30
35	Jack	35	new	20
36	Thomas	35	↓4	8
37	Daniel	33	↑11	41
38	Tommy	33	↑2	91
39	Kenneth	32	↑7	14
40	Jesus	31	↑1	>100
41	Leo	30	↑3	94
42	Alfred	29	↑1	60
43	Pete	29	↓10	>100
44	Ramon	28	↓9	>100
45	Mike	27	new	>100
46	Don	26	new	51
47	Herman	26	new	>100
48	Willie	26	↓14	32
49	Antonio	25	↓21	>100
50	Ernesto	25	new	>100

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