Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1938

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1938 were Mary for girls (454 babies) and Joe for boys (197). Joe ranked #28 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 11,220 babies born in New Mexico in 1938 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1938

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: 22 babies, 58.4× the national rate
Angie: 27 babies, 24× the national rate
Consuelo: 19 babies, 22.4× the national rate
Antonia: 22 babies, 22.3× the national rate
Cecilia: 42 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Isabel: 26 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Lydia: 42 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Josie: 22 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Lupe: 19 babies, 11× the national rate
Estella: 15 babies, 9× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 19 babies, 80.7× the national rate
Orlando: 21 babies, 42.3× the national rate
Arturo: 21 babies, 28.5× the national rate
Jose: 151 babies, 25.5× the national rate
Alfonso: 35 babies, 23.5× the national rate
Ramon: 48 babies, 21.1× the national rate
Juan: 64 babies, 19.6× the national rate
Alfredo: 17 babies, 19.3× the national rate
Roberto: 24 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Salvador: 15 babies, 16× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1938

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Mary	454	–	1
2	Betty	129	–	4
3	Barbara	115	–	2
4	Margaret	90	↑6	9
5	Helen	89	–	13
6	Maria	87	↓2	>100
7	Frances	81	–	23
8	Dorothy	78	↑3	8
9	Gloria	78	↓3	36
10	Virginia	75	↓2	22
11	Rose	74	↑3	39
12	Patricia	70	↑6	3
13	Martha	62	↓4	26
14	Shirley	62	↑1	5
15	Alice	61	↑1	29
16	Patsy	61	↑22	55
17	Dolores	56	↓4	43
18	Marie	51	↓1	37
19	Nancy	51	↑1	7
20	Ruth	48	↑16	21
21	Cecilia	42	↑6	>100
22	Irene	42	↓1	72
23	Lydia	42	↑2	>100
24	Rita	42	↑9	74
25	Josephine	41	↑7	83
26	Lucy	41	↓14	>100
27	Juanita	38	↓8	80
28	Viola	38	↓6	>100
29	Carol	36	new	6
30	Elizabeth	36	new	17
31	Carmen	35	↓8	>100
32	Priscilla	35	new	>100
33	Dora	34	↑16	>100
34	Evelyn	34	↓5	38
35	Ramona	34	new	>100
36	Ida	33	↓5	>100
37	Anna	32	new	40
38	Sally	32	↑4	54
39	Annie	31	↑1	47
40	Carolyn	31	new	15
41	Esther	31	new	>100
42	Eva	31	↓16	>100
43	Rosalie	31	new	66
44	Elsie	30	↑6	>100
45	Emma	29	new	96
46	Jo	29	new	78
47	Ruby	29	↓8	61
48	Pauline	28	↓20	97
49	Wanda	28	↓12	49
50	Angie	27	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Joe	197	–	28
2	Robert	185	–	1
3	John	165	–	3
4	James	158	–	2
5	Jose	151	–	>100
6	Richard	119	–	5
7	Frank	114	–	18
8	Charles	97	↑2	6
9	David	92	–	8
10	Manuel	85	↓2	>100
11	William	83	↑1	4
12	Jerry	79	↑1	17
13	Raymond	76	↑13	20
14	George	74	↓3	11
15	Donald	66	–	7
16	Gilbert	66	–	>100
17	Juan	64	↑11	>100
18	Johnny	62	↑5	63
19	Jimmy	59	↓2	45
20	Edward	56	↑1	13
21	Paul	56	↑1	15
22	Tony	55	↓8	>100
23	Ernest	54	↑4	55
24	Thomas	53	↓4	9
25	Arthur	51	↑11	32
26	Larry	51	new	16
27	Billy	50	↓9	24
28	Bobby	50	↓3	27
29	Henry	49	↓10	30
30	Kenneth	49	↓6	14
31	Ramon	48	↑17	>100
32	Joseph	47	new	12
33	Ronald	47	↑16	10
34	Eddie	46	–	79
35	Louis	43	↓4	47
36	Albert	42	↓7	37
37	Daniel	42	↓4	39
38	Fred	42	↓8	38
39	Jack	40	↓1	25
40	Antonio	39	↓1	>100
41	Tommy	37	new	77
42	Leo	36	↓7	>100
43	Alfonso	35	↑4	>100
44	Roy	34	new	41
45	Pete	32	↑1	>100
46	Walter	32	new	26
47	Jimmie	31	new	76
48	Rudy	29	new	>100
49	Eugene	28	new	33
50	Felix	27	new	>100

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