Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1977

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1977 were Jennifer for girls (293 babies) and Michael for boys (362). Social Security records list 17,533 babies born in New Mexico in 1977 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1977

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

Celina: 15 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Bernadette: 26 babies, 9× the national rate
Roberta: 21 babies, 7× the national rate
Antoinette: 20 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Jolene: 25 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Angelica: 37 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Cecilia: 17 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Yvonne: 35 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Yvette: 27 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Roxanne: 19 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Boys

Santiago: 17 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Marcos: 25 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Abel: 15 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Lorenzo: 18 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Dominic: 38 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Orlando: 24 babies, 6× the national rate
Julian: 25 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Rudy: 17 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Isaac: 36 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Manuel: 47 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1977

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1976	US rank
1	Jennifer	293	–	1
2	Melissa	200	↑1	2
3	Jessica	183	↑1	4
4	Michelle	168	↓2	7
5	Stephanie	116	↑4	14
6	Monica	110	↑2	39
7	Amy	109	↓1	3
8	Amanda	107	↓1	9
9	Kimberly	105	↑3	8
10	Elizabeth	101	↑4	13
11	Sarah	98	↑7	11
12	Heather	97	↓2	5
13	Lisa	96	↓2	12
14	Maria	92	↓1	36
15	Angela	87	↓10	6
16	Christina	84	↓1	16
17	Rebecca	81	↓1	17
18	Valerie	79	↑2	86
19	Crystal	77	↑19	25
20	Andrea	75	↓3	24
21	Mary	73	↑4	21
22	Shannon	69	↓3	19
23	Nicole	67	↑5	15
24	Veronica	62	↑2	73
25	Rachel	61	↑4	26
26	April	60	↑7	29
27	Jamie	59	↑4	18
28	Laura	59	↓5	20
29	Cynthia	56	↑12	48
30	Tanya	56	↓9	67
31	Amber	55	↑9	33
32	Julie	55	↓10	22
33	Kelly	54	↓6	10
34	Melanie	54	↑1	53
35	Vanessa	53	↑15	90
36	Patricia	52	↓12	47
37	Victoria	51	↓7	>100
38	Erica	50	↑1	38
39	Sara	47	new	27
40	Alicia	46	new	60
41	Karen	45	new	32
42	Carrie	44	new	28
43	Misty	42	new	40
44	Tammy	42	↓7	55
45	Denise	40	↓11	78
46	Anna	39	↓3	74
47	Sandra	39	–	61
48	Christine	38	↓16	30
49	Angelica	37	new	>100
50	Brenda	37	new	91

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1976	US rank
1	Michael	362	–	1
2	Jason	282	–	2
3	Christopher	278	–	3
4	David	253	–	4
5	James	198	↑1	5
6	Robert	197	↓1	6
7	John	193	↑2	7
8	Daniel	186	↓1	11
9	Joseph	182	↓1	10
10	Matthew	174	↑2	9
11	Brian	153	↑3	8
12	Jeremy	132	↓1	15
13	Eric	130	↑2	17
14	Anthony	121	↓1	21
15	Joshua	118	↑2	14
16	Richard	118	↓6	20
17	William	97	↓1	12
18	Steven	94	–	23
19	Ryan	93	↑3	16
20	Gabriel	89	–	87
21	Aaron	82	–	32
22	Kevin	82	↑10	13
23	Thomas	82	–	22
24	Jose	81	↑2	45
25	Andrew	80	↓1	24
26	Justin	79	↑8	30
27	Paul	79	↓8	31
28	Adam	78	↓3	33
29	Timothy	77	↑11	18
30	Carlos	75	↓1	74
31	Mark	75	↓4	25
32	Patrick	73	↓4	40
33	Benjamin	69	↑2	29
34	Juan	68	↓3	63
35	Charles	66	↓5	26
36	Jacob	66	↑3	56
37	Jeffrey	66	↓1	19
38	Jonathan	65	↓5	28
39	Nathan	65	↓2	36
40	Shawn	62	↑1	37
41	Adrian	52	↑5	>100
42	Jesse	50	↑3	54
43	Kenneth	50	new	39
44	Raymond	49	↑5	65
45	Antonio	48	new	77
46	Brandon	48	↓3	41
47	Sean	48	new	43
48	Manuel	47	↓6	>100
49	Edward	46	new	47
50	Chad	45	new	34

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