Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1949

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1949 were Mary for girls (522 babies) and Robert for boys (404). Mary ranked #2 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 18,301 babies born in New Mexico in 1949 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1949

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: 27 babies, 31.2× the national rate
Consuelo: 16 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Lupe: 21 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Josie: 16 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Isabel: 21 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Antonia: 15 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Viola: 29 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Margarita: 21 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Ramona: 36 babies, 8.1× the national rate
Lucy: 55 babies, 7.8× the national rate

Boys

Orlando: 27 babies, 38.8× the national rate
Lorenzo: 28 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Ernesto: 19 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Ramon: 36 babies, 12.8× the national rate
Manuel: 110 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Pete: 37 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Rudy: 45 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Felix: 30 babies, 11× the national rate
Louie: 23 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Julian: 30 babies, 10.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1949

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1948	US rank
1	Mary	522	–	2
2	Linda	343	–	1
3	Patricia	191	–	3
4	Gloria	167	–	29
5	Barbara	161	–	4
6	Margaret	130	–	14
7	Maria	125	–	72
8	Nancy	116	↑2	7
9	Betty	111	–	22
10	Susan	109	↑4	5
11	Sharon	104	↓3	10
12	Judy	96	↑4	20
13	Elizabeth	93	↑6	25
14	Martha	89	↑13	34
15	Dolores	88	↓2	>100
16	Sandra	87	↓5	6
17	Rita	84	↑14	54
18	Shirley	82	↑6	18
19	Virginia	82	↓7	39
20	Frances	81	↓5	49
21	Carol	74	↑1	8
22	Donna	73	↓4	12
23	Carolyn	70	–	17
24	Rose	70	↓4	66
25	Theresa	70	↓4	63
26	Alice	68	↑8	53
27	Helen	65	↓10	46
28	Karen	65	↓2	11
29	Rebecca	61	↑11	40
30	Christine	57	↑20	30
31	Dorothy	57	↓6	32
32	Irene	57	↓4	>100
33	Cynthia	56	new	27
34	Kathleen	56	↑2	9
35	Lucy	55	new	>100
36	Connie	54	↓7	43
37	Evelyn	54	new	80
38	Marie	53	new	67
39	Deborah	52	new	15
40	Kathy	51	new	42
41	Priscilla	50	new	>100
42	Sylvia	49	↓1	94
43	Yolanda	49	new	>100
44	Diana	46	↓14	48
45	Lorraine	45	↓6	>100
46	Catherine	44	new	37
47	Eva	44	new	>100
48	Pauline	44	–	>100
49	Teresa	44	new	82
50	Anita	43	↓1	99

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1948	US rank
1	Robert	404	–	2
2	John	318	–	3
3	David	304	↑1	6
4	James	299	↓1	1
5	Richard	256	–	7
6	Michael	240	↑1	5
7	William	230	↑2	4
8	Joe	220	↓2	52
9	Larry	157	↓1	10
10	Jerry	140	↑2	23
11	Raymond	129	↑6	30
12	Charles	128	↓2	9
13	Thomas	124	↑8	8
14	Jose	123	–	>100
15	George	120	↓2	18
16	Frank	116	↓1	27
17	Paul	114	↑9	17
18	Johnny	111	↓7	49
19	Manuel	110	↓1	>100
20	Edward	103	↑3	21
21	Joseph	102	↓2	14
22	Ronald	101	↓2	11
23	Donald	97	↑4	13
24	Daniel	96	↑9	22
25	Gary	91	↓3	12
26	Jimmy	89	↓10	53
27	Kenneth	79	↑4	15
28	Anthony	76	↑7	36
29	Arthur	76	↑1	44
30	Gilbert	76	↓5	>100
31	Stephen	76	new	19
32	Steven	73	new	20
33	Danny	71	↑4	40
34	Albert	69	↓10	56
35	Eddie	68	↑6	80
36	Ernest	65	↓2	76
37	Steve	63	↑12	68
38	Mike	62	↑4	88
39	Dennis	59	↑11	16
40	Tony	58	↓2	>100
41	Henry	56	↓13	46
42	Billy	54	↓6	57
43	Patrick	52	new	39
44	Ralph	52	↑3	50
45	Leroy	51	↓5	>100
46	Phillip	50	–	66
47	Roy	50	↑1	51
48	Juan	49	↓9	>100
49	Tommy	49	↓20	84
50	Lawrence	48	↓18	32

← New Mexico 1948 New Mexico: all years · US 1949 New Mexico 1950 →