Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1946

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1946 were Mary for girls (559 babies) and Robert for boys (335). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 14,956 babies born in New Mexico in 1946 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1946

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: 22 babies, 22.2× the national rate
Josie: 29 babies, 18.8× the national rate
Isabel: 27 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Consuelo: 15 babies, 16× the national rate
Antonia: 15 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Lupe: 21 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Viola: 39 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Margarita: 15 babies, 9× the national rate
Estella: 15 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Olivia: 29 babies, 8.6× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 33 babies, 81.4× the national rate
Orlando: 29 babies, 53.5× the national rate
Ernesto: 17 babies, 18.6× the national rate
Jake: 15 babies, 16.5× the national rate
Ramon: 36 babies, 16.4× the national rate
Manuel: 112 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Alfonso: 19 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Louie: 22 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Luis: 24 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Jose: 108 babies, 12.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1946

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1945	US rank
1	Mary	559	–	1
2	Linda	166	–	2
3	Patricia	163	↑2	3
4	Gloria	154	↓1	26
5	Barbara	129	↓1	4
6	Maria	111	↑1	88
7	Margaret	103	↑1	17
8	Betty	100	↓2	14
9	Sharon	91	↑4	9
10	Virginia	91	↑5	31
11	Dolores	87	↑9	>100
12	Nancy	86	↓3	7
13	Sandra	81	↓1	6
14	Judy	79	↑3	11
15	Elizabeth	77	↑9	25
16	Frances	77	–	39
17	Rose	75	↑2	60
18	Carol	73	↓8	5
19	Helen	73	↓5	36
20	Dorothy	70	↓9	23
21	Shirley	67	↑20	18
22	Susan	64	↑3	8
23	Karen	63	–	15
24	Donna	62	↑4	13
25	Rita	61	↑1	56
26	Martha	60	↓5	32
27	Carolyn	56	↑2	12
28	Connie	52	↓1	45
29	Patsy	51	↑7	85
30	Marie	50	↓8	54
31	Priscilla	50	new	>100
32	Theresa	50	new	96
33	Irene	48	↓3	>100
34	Janet	47	↑13	21
35	Lucy	47	↑5	>100
36	Yolanda	45	new	>100
37	Alice	44	↓19	44
38	Evelyn	43	new	65
39	Juanita	42	↓6	>100
40	Rosemary	42	new	74
41	Beverly	40	new	30
42	Sylvia	39	↓11	82
43	Viola	39	↑1	>100
44	Christine	38	new	50
45	Joyce	38	↑1	20
46	Carmen	37	↓9	>100
47	Kathleen	37	new	16
48	Ruby	37	new	>100
49	Julia	36	↓15	>100
50	Phyllis	36	new	41

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1945	US rank
1	Robert	335	–	2
2	John	245	↑1	3
3	Joe	224	↑1	37
4	James	223	↓2	1
5	Richard	217	↑1	5
6	David	198	↓1	6
7	William	145	–	4
8	Michael	141	↑9	7
9	Larry	126	↑7	11
10	Frank	125	↑3	22
11	Charles	118	–	9
12	Jerry	114	–	20
13	Manuel	112	↑1	>100
14	Jose	108	↓4	>100
15	George	101	↓6	16
16	Johnny	101	↓8	47
17	Gary	96	↑1	12
18	Raymond	93	↑2	25
19	Thomas	92	↑4	8
20	Paul	88	↑5	18
21	Gilbert	84	↓2	>100
22	Tony	84	↑5	>100
23	Henry	79	↑6	41
24	Joseph	79	–	14
25	Ronald	78	↓4	10
26	Jimmy	77	↓11	42
27	Albert	73	↑3	52
28	Ernest	71	–	71
29	Donald	69	↓7	13
30	Eddie	64	↑10	85
31	Daniel	61	↑6	21
32	Kenneth	61	↓6	15
33	Leroy	61	↑1	90
34	Mike	60	↑1	64
35	Danny	57	↓2	46
36	Edward	55	↑5	19
37	Tommy	55	↑7	77
38	Arthur	52	↓7	36
39	Billy	52	↓3	45
40	Fred	52	↑2	51
41	Juan	49	new	>100
42	Bobby	47	↓10	53
43	Ronnie	44	new	54
44	Ralph	43	↑2	48
45	Ray	41	↓7	95
46	Dennis	40	↓7	17
47	Roy	38	new	43
48	Steve	38	new	69
49	Alfred	37	new	94
50	Ramon	36	new	>100

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