Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1940

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1940 were Mary for girls (481 babies) and Joe for boys (215). Joe ranked #28 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 11,831 babies born in New Mexico in 1940 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1940

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

Angie: 25 babies, 20.6× the national rate
Lupe: 25 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Josie: 24 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Delia: 15 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Guadalupe: 17 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Cecilia: 35 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Viola: 47 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Isabel: 16 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Lydia: 34 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Maria: 95 babies, 8.7× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 20 babies, 64.8× the national rate
Orlando: 35 babies, 59.2× the national rate
Vicente: 18 babies, 44.9× the national rate
Ernesto: 18 babies, 28.7× the national rate
Pablo: 16 babies, 28.5× the national rate
Arturo: 20 babies, 23.9× the national rate
Alberto: 17 babies, 23.6× the national rate
Armando: 20 babies, 20.1× the national rate
Lorenzo: 20 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Jose: 111 babies, 18.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1940

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Mary	481	–	1
2	Betty	121	↑1	5
3	Barbara	107	↓1	2
4	Gloria	101	↑7	30
5	Maria	95	–	>100
6	Margaret	91	–	11
7	Frances	84	↑2	28
8	Helen	80	↓4	18
9	Patricia	75	↑1	3
10	Dorothy	74	↑3	12
11	Martha	68	↑7	26
12	Rose	62	↑2	44
13	Virginia	61	↓1	21
14	Nancy	60	↑1	7
15	Dolores	59	↓8	67
16	Patsy	57	↑6	57
17	Linda	55	new	8
18	Alice	54	↓10	32
19	Lucy	51	↓3	>100
20	Shirley	50	↑1	9
21	Irene	49	↑14	73
22	Carol	47	↑25	6
23	Viola	47	↑3	>100
24	Sandra	44	↑22	10
25	Pauline	42	↑15	>100
26	Judy	41	new	16
27	Marie	41	↓10	41
28	Sylvia	40	new	62
29	Carolyn	39	new	15
30	Wanda	39	↑8	52
31	Priscilla	38	↓6	>100
32	Beatrice	37	new	>100
33	Juanita	37	↓13	78
34	Elsie	36	↓6	>100
35	Anita	35	new	87
36	Cecilia	35	↓2	>100
37	Ruth	35	↓7	24
38	Annie	34	new	56
39	Carmen	34	new	>100
40	Elizabeth	34	↓21	20
41	Lydia	34	↑1	>100
42	Peggy	34	↓13	37
43	Ramona	34	↑2	>100
44	Connie	33	↑4	88
45	Norma	32	↓1	43
46	Rebecca	32	new	96
47	Esther	31	↓14	>100
48	Julia	31	new	91
49	Donna	30	new	23
50	Nellie	30	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Joe	215	–	28
2	Robert	211	–	2
3	James	167	↑1	1
4	John	145	↓1	3
5	Richard	131	–	5
6	Jose	111	–	>100
7	George	102	↑5	11
8	David	101	↑2	7
9	Frank	98	↑2	20
10	William	96	↑3	4
11	Jerry	94	↓2	14
12	Manuel	84	↓4	>100
13	Donald	83	↑5	9
14	Jimmy	83	↑10	44
15	Charles	82	↓8	6
16	Johnny	79	↑5	51
17	Paul	78	↓1	17
18	Gilbert	71	↓1	>100
19	Raymond	70	↓5	22
20	Tony	70	↓5	>100
21	Billy	63	↑4	27
22	Larry	63	↑5	13
23	Fred	62	↑11	40
24	Henry	62	↓4	31
25	Kenneth	58	↑1	15
26	Thomas	54	↓4	8
27	Tommy	54	↑10	76
28	Ernest	52	↓9	58
29	Edward	48	↑4	16
30	Arthur	47	↑14	33
31	Eddie	46	–	81
32	Juan	45	↓9	>100
33	Carlos	44	new	>100
34	Albert	43	↓5	41
35	Bobby	41	↑1	30
36	Pete	40	new	>100
37	Leo	39	↓9	>100
38	Roy	39	↓8	42
39	Leroy	38	↑1	66
40	Ronald	38	new	10
41	Jim	37	new	78
42	Daniel	36	↑7	34
43	Jack	36	↓5	29
44	Joseph	36	↑1	12
45	Michael	36	new	18
46	Ralph	36	new	37
47	Bill	35	new	67
48	Don	35	new	62
49	Louis	35	new	50
50	Orlando	35	↓2	>100

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