Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1944

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1944 were Mary for girls (509 babies) and Robert for boys (274). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 13,153 babies born in New Mexico in 1944 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1944

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: 24 babies, 26.2× the national rate
Isabel: 32 babies, 21.7× the national rate
Antonia: 20 babies, 15.8× the national rate
Cecilia: 47 babies, 14× the national rate
Josie: 23 babies, 13.7× the national rate
Lupe: 24 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Carmen: 42 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Marcella: 27 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Ramona: 27 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Viola: 31 babies, 8.1× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 19 babies, 70.4× the national rate
Fidel: 17 babies, 40× the national rate
Orlando: 16 babies, 38.5× the national rate
Luis: 35 babies, 20× the national rate
Jose: 134 babies, 17.7× the national rate
Ramon: 40 babies, 17.4× the national rate
Manuel: 108 babies, 15.4× the national rate
Pete: 47 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Antonio: 35 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Lorenzo: 19 babies, 13.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1944

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	Mary	509	–	1
2	Barbara	129	↑2	2
3	Linda	118	↑2	3
4	Gloria	114	↓2	25
5	Patricia	114	↑1	4
6	Betty	104	↓3	10
7	Margaret	93	↑1	14
8	Maria	88	↓1	80
9	Sharon	88	↑5	8
10	Dorothy	87	↑6	19
11	Nancy	81	↑2	7
12	Virginia	81	↑6	26
13	Helen	76	↓2	31
14	Carol	75	↑5	5
15	Frances	74	↓6	33
16	Martha	71	↑5	29
17	Judy	69	–	12
18	Sandra	61	↑2	6
19	Carolyn	60	↓4	11
20	Rita	59	↑13	54
21	Rose	59	↓9	52
22	Shirley	57	↑3	15
23	Alice	56	↓13	38
24	Patsy	55	↓2	72
25	Dolores	54	↓2	92
26	Karen	53	new	16
27	Marie	49	↓3	48
28	Cecilia	47	↓2	>100
29	Elizabeth	47	–	23
30	Susan	45	↑12	13
31	Theresa	45	↑7	96
32	Carmen	42	↓5	>100
33	Donna	41	↑6	17
34	Irene	41	↓6	91
35	Ruth	41	↑2	32
36	Julia	39	↑8	>100
37	Lucy	39	↓7	>100
38	Esther	38	↑7	>100
39	Judith	38	↑8	9
40	Joyce	36	↓9	18
41	Connie	34	↓9	51
42	Josephine	33	↓8	>100
43	Priscilla	33	↓8	>100
44	Diana	32	new	60
45	Isabel	32	new	>100
46	Janet	32	new	21
47	Juanita	32	↓7	94
48	Kathleen	32	new	20
49	Lorraine	31	new	93
50	Marilyn	31	new	27

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1943	US rank
1	Robert	274	–	2
2	Joe	234	–	33
3	James	205	↑1	1
4	John	202	↓1	3
5	Richard	201	–	5
6	David	143	–	6
7	Jose	134	↑2	>100
8	William	132	↓1	4
9	Manuel	108	↑2	>100
10	Johnny	106	↑4	45
11	Charles	103	↓1	7
12	Gilbert	98	↑4	>100
13	Frank	97	↓5	21
14	Jerry	96	↓2	19
15	Michael	94	↑10	9
16	George	92	↓3	14
17	Raymond	87	↑3	22
18	Larry	84	–	12
19	Gary	81	↑18	15
20	Jimmy	76	↓3	41
21	Henry	75	↓2	35
22	Donald	71	↑2	11
23	Joseph	67	↓2	13
24	Kenneth	65	↑12	16
25	Thomas	65	↑4	8
26	Tony	64	↓4	>100
27	Billy	63	↑6	38
28	Arthur	61	↑7	29
29	Paul	61	↓14	17
30	Fred	56	↓3	47
31	Juan	53	↑15	>100
32	Tommy	53	–	70
33	Bobby	48	↑5	50
34	Edward	47	↓3	18
35	Ernest	47	↓12	59
36	Leroy	47	↑4	78
37	Pete	47	new	>100
38	Ronald	47	↓10	10
39	Roy	46	↑6	39
40	Eddie	44	↑1	79
41	Daniel	43	↑2	25
42	Mike	41	↓16	80
43	Albert	40	↓13	44
44	Louis	40	new	54
45	Ramon	40	new	>100
46	Bill	38	↑2	66
47	Ralph	37	↓3	42
48	Antonio	35	↓14	>100
49	Jack	35	–	30
50	Jim	35	new	68

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