Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1951

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1951 were Mary for girls (516 babies) and Robert for boys (430). Mary ranked #2 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 19,824 babies born in New Mexico in 1951 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1951

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

Consuelo: 15 babies, 16.1× the national rate
Angie: 16 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Isabel: 27 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Viola: 40 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Cecilia: 40 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Yolanda: 65 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Dolores: 79 babies, 7× the national rate
Ramona: 37 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Stella: 33 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Guadalupe: 19 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Boys

Eloy: 17 babies, 33.2× the national rate
Orlando: 24 babies, 25.2× the national rate
Abel: 16 babies, 16× the national rate
Enrique: 19 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Rudy: 48 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Lorenzo: 25 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Arturo: 23 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Manuel: 100 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Ramon: 32 babies, 10.5× the national rate
Salvador: 18 babies, 9.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1951

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1950	US rank
1	Mary	516	–	2
2	Linda	299	–	1
3	Patricia	256	–	3
4	Barbara	184	–	5
5	Gloria	160	–	31
6	Deborah	146	↑8	4
7	Margaret	131	↓1	17
8	Susan	121	↓1	6
9	Sharon	116	↑12	13
10	Maria	113	↓1	75
11	Karen	110	↑5	8
12	Sandra	110	↑5	9
13	Virginia	106	–	47
14	Elizabeth	104	↓6	23
15	Nancy	103	↓5	7
16	Carol	97	↓5	11
17	Irene	94	↑3	>100
18	Judy	89	↓3	26
19	Betty	88	↓1	29
20	Donna	87	↓1	12
21	Rose	81	↑8	65
22	Theresa	80	↑3	64
23	Dolores	79	↑1	>100
24	Kathleen	76	↑6	10
25	Diana	75	↑6	50
26	Martha	75	↓14	38
27	Christine	71	↑8	24
28	Pamela	70	↓5	16
29	Dorothy	68	↑7	42
30	Shirley	67	↓2	27
31	Katherine	66	↑14	55
32	Rita	66	↓5	61
33	Teresa	66	new	63
34	Yolanda	65	↓2	>100
35	Debra	64	new	18
36	Helen	64	↓14	54
37	Janet	63	↑7	19
38	Rebecca	63	↓4	32
39	Lorraine	62	↑10	>100
40	Marie	62	↓7	78
41	Frances	59	↓15	59
42	Catherine	56	↑5	34
43	Laura	55	new	60
44	Alice	53	↓4	62
45	Connie	53	↑3	44
46	Sylvia	53	new	97
47	Esther	52	new	>100
48	Janice	52	↓10	21
49	Marilyn	52	new	41
50	Kathryn	51	new	45

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1950	US rank
1	Robert	430	–	2
2	Michael	368	↑4	4
3	John	330	–	3
4	David	329	–	5
5	James	318	↓3	1
6	Richard	296	↓1	7
7	William	225	–	6
8	Larry	167	–	11
9	Charles	163	↑2	9
10	Joe	160	↓1	57
11	Gary	139	↑6	10
12	Joseph	138	↑1	14
13	Thomas	130	↓3	8
14	George	126	↑6	22
15	Ronald	123	↑6	12
16	Steven	116	↑12	13
17	Paul	114	↑5	18
18	Jerry	112	↑1	24
19	Daniel	110	↑5	21
20	Johnny	109	↓4	50
21	Donald	106	↑4	15
22	Raymond	104	↓7	32
23	Manuel	100	↓9	>100
24	Edward	97	↑8	23
25	Jimmy	97	↑6	62
26	Frank	94	↓8	31
27	Jose	93	↓15	>100
28	Stephen	91	↑2	19
29	Anthony	89	↑7	34
30	Kenneth	89	↓3	16
31	Lawrence	88	↑3	33
32	Ernest	85	↑1	83
33	Gilbert	84	↓7	>100
34	Arthur	79	↓5	44
35	Mark	79	new	20
36	Dennis	72	↑1	17
37	Henry	67	↑2	47
38	Albert	62	↓15	60
39	Danny	61	↑1	41
40	Patrick	61	↓2	39
41	Samuel	61	new	67
42	Leroy	57	↑1	>100
43	Leonard	55	new	80
44	Tommy	54	new	94
45	Antonio	49	↑2	>100
46	Bobby	49	↓4	77
47	Martin	49	new	81
48	Jack	48	new	48
49	Ralph	48	↓4	51
50	Rudy	48	↓4	>100

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