Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1941

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1941 were Mary for girls (504 babies) and Robert for boys (227). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 11,883 babies born in New Mexico in 1941 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1941

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, 47.1× the national rate
Josie: 31 babies, 18.5× the national rate
Cecilia: 59 babies, 18.1× the national rate
Lupe: 25 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Angie: 18 babies, 16.4× the national rate
Isabel: 26 babies, 16× the national rate
Elvira: 16 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Jennie: 33 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Viola: 40 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Carmen: 41 babies, 8.8× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 26 babies, 106.1× the national rate
Orlando: 37 babies, 64.5× the national rate
Abel: 15 babies, 25.3× the national rate
Alfonso: 32 babies, 24.9× the national rate
Elias: 16 babies, 23.7× the national rate
Jose: 122 babies, 20.8× the national rate
Gabriel: 17 babies, 16.8× the national rate
Juan: 53 babies, 16.4× the national rate
Rudy: 35 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Antonio: 34 babies, 15.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1941

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Mary	504	–	1
2	Barbara	105	↑1	2
3	Gloria	103	↑1	26
4	Betty	102	↓2	7
5	Patricia	95	↑4	3
6	Dolores	92	↑9	57
7	Frances	88	–	31
8	Helen	86	–	24
9	Margaret	85	↓3	12
10	Virginia	85	↑3	23
11	Maria	81	↓6	>100
12	Dorothy	78	↓2	14
13	Nancy	68	↑1	8
14	Martha	67	↓3	25
15	Priscilla	62	↑16	>100
16	Rose	61	↓4	49
17	Patsy	60	↓1	52
18	Alice	59	–	34
19	Cecilia	59	↑17	>100
20	Linda	59	↓3	5
21	Marie	59	↑6	42
22	Irene	53	↓1	74
23	Lucy	52	↓4	>100
24	Elizabeth	50	↑16	21
25	Judy	50	↑1	16
26	Sandra	49	↓2	9
27	Juanita	48	↑6	84
28	Ruth	45	↑9	28
29	Julia	43	↑19	88
30	Rita	43	new	63
31	Carmen	41	↑8	>100
32	Sharon	41	new	15
33	Shirley	40	↓13	10
34	Viola	40	↓11	>100
35	Dora	38	new	>100
36	Anna	37	new	56
37	Stella	37	new	>100
38	Anita	36	↓3	91
39	Carol	36	↓17	4
40	Joyce	35	new	13
41	Donna	34	↑8	20
42	Eva	34	new	>100
43	Pauline	34	↓18	>100
44	Jennie	33	new	>100
45	Sylvia	33	↓17	65
46	Beatrice	31	↓14	>100
47	Carolyn	31	↓18	11
48	Josie	31	new	>100
49	Rebecca	31	↓3	86
50	Esther	30	↓3	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Robert	227	↑1	2
2	Joe	223	↓1	30
3	John	173	↑1	3
4	James	168	↓1	1
5	Richard	141	–	5
6	David	137	↑2	7
7	Jose	122	↓1	>100
8	Jerry	109	↑3	14
9	Johnny	95	↑7	55
10	William	94	–	4
11	Frank	90	↓2	21
12	George	85	↓5	13
13	Manuel	85	↓1	>100
14	Gilbert	80	↑4	>100
15	Charles	72	–	6
16	Henry	72	↑8	28
17	Tony	69	↑3	>100
18	Paul	68	↓1	18
19	Raymond	65	–	22
20	Larry	63	↑2	11
21	Albert	62	↑13	40
22	Arthur	60	↑8	33
23	Jimmy	59	↓9	45
24	Tommy	59	↑3	71
25	Billy	58	↓4	27
26	Bobby	57	↑9	35
27	Thomas	56	↓1	8
28	Juan	53	↑4	>100
29	Donald	52	↓16	10
30	Ernest	51	↓2	61
31	Eddie	47	–	78
32	Edward	47	↓3	17
33	Joseph	46	↑11	12
34	Mike	45	new	>100
35	Leo	44	↑2	>100
36	Ronald	42	↑4	9
37	Leroy	41	↑2	67
38	Kenneth	39	↓13	15
39	Louis	39	↑10	50
40	Fred	37	↓17	43
41	Orlando	37	↑9	>100
42	Jimmie	36	new	89
43	Rudy	35	new	>100
44	Antonio	34	new	>100
45	Gary	34	new	19
46	Jim	33	↓5	80
47	Alfonso	32	new	>100
48	Carlos	32	↓15	>100
49	Daniel	32	↓7	31
50	Jack	32	↓7	32

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