Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1967

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1967 were Lisa for girls (186 babies) and Michael for boys (378). Social Security records list 17,110 babies born in New Mexico in 1967 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1967

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

Geraldine: 33 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Bernadette: 47 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Dolores: 24 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Josephine: 25 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Priscilla: 27 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Pauline: 18 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Ruby: 19 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Nadine: 17 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Yvonne: 64 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Lillian: 18 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Delbert: 15 babies, 9× the national rate
Rudy: 25 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Gilbert: 47 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Julian: 16 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Frankie: 22 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Gabriel: 21 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Manuel: 49 babies, 6× the national rate
Adrian: 22 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Ramon: 22 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Leroy: 33 babies, 5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1967

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1966	US rank
1	Lisa	186	–	1
2	Michelle	177	↑1	3
3	Mary	145	↓1	4
4	Melissa	116	↑5	9
5	Karen	114	↑3	6
6	Patricia	114	↓2	11
7	Kimberly	111	↑23	2
8	Sandra	99	↓2	20
9	Cynthia	97	↑1	18
10	Elizabeth	97	↓5	13
11	Angela	85	↑2	7
12	Rebecca	83	↑11	39
13	Donna	82	↓2	19
14	Linda	78	↑3	26
15	Laura	77	↑10	15
16	Stephanie	75	↑34	25
17	Brenda	74	↓10	31
18	Theresa	74	↑11	43
19	Deborah	73	↑1	22
20	Jennifer	73	↓4	10
21	Susan	73	↓7	5
22	Valerie	69	↑16	73
23	Maria	68	↓11	42
24	Sharon	68	↓3	30
25	Denise	67	↓3	34
26	Christine	64	↓11	14
27	Lori	64	↑8	24
28	Yvonne	64	↑11	>100
29	Debra	63	↓1	38
30	Monica	63	↑3	70
31	Anna	59	↑1	91
32	Annette	58	↓1	85
33	Tammy	58	↓9	8
34	Barbara	57	↓16	33
35	Pamela	57	↓16	17
36	Julie	56	↓9	16
37	Amy	55	new	12
38	Margaret	55	↓1	58
39	Paula	53	↑6	46
40	Tina	52	↑2	21
41	Christina	51	↑7	53
42	Cheryl	50	↑4	35
43	Renee	50	new	62
44	Gloria	49	↑5	>100
45	Veronica	49	new	>100
46	Bernadette	47	↓3	>100
47	Carol	47	↓7	47
48	Rhonda	47	new	41
49	Debbie	46	↓13	90
50	Cindy	45	new	59

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1966	US rank
1	Michael	378	↑1	1
2	David	319	↓1	2
3	John	285	–	4
4	Robert	277	–	5
5	James	274	–	3
6	Richard	207	–	8
7	Mark	160	↑2	7
8	Paul	149	–	18
9	Christopher	141	↑6	9
10	Joseph	141	↓3	15
11	Anthony	140	↑1	21
12	Steven	133	↓2	14
13	Daniel	123	–	19
14	William	109	↓3	6
15	Ronald	105	↑7	24
16	Patrick	103	↓2	30
17	Brian	99	↑1	10
18	Thomas	97	↓2	12
19	Timothy	97	↑9	11
20	Charles	92	↓1	20
21	Jeffrey	82	↑9	13
22	Kenneth	80	↓5	22
23	Gary	79	↓2	32
24	Raymond	75	–	48
25	Eric	74	↑6	23
26	Jerry	74	↑7	41
27	Kevin	74	↓1	17
28	Johnny	73	↑9	70
29	Andrew	72	↓9	35
30	Matthew	68	↓3	28
31	Joe	66	↓6	85
32	Edward	65	↓9	31
33	Gregory	61	↑6	25
34	Stephen	61	↑4	26
35	Larry	60	↓3	38
36	Donald	56	↓2	27
37	Martin	55	↓1	80
38	Scott	55	↓9	16
39	Frank	54	↑2	45
40	Jose	54	↑10	64
41	Chris	51	↑1	60
42	Danny	51	↑1	68
43	George	50	↓8	36
44	Manuel	49	↑2	>100
45	Dennis	47	↑2	43
46	Gilbert	47	new	>100
47	Randy	46	↓7	49
48	Peter	45	new	39
49	Victor	45	new	97
50	Jimmy	44	new	74

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