Popular baby names in New Mexico, 1985

The most popular baby names in New Mexico in 1985 were Jessica for girls (290 babies) and Christopher for boys (411). Christopher ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 21,218 babies born in New Mexico in 1985 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in New Mexico in 1985

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

Bernadette: 16 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Celina: 15 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Desirae: 16 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Clarissa: 22 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Jolene: 15 babies, 6× the national rate
Antoinette: 22 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Genevieve: 16 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Juanita: 17 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Naomi: 30 babies, 5× the national rate
Guadalupe: 17 babies, 5× the national rate

Boys

Estevan: 16 babies, 20.2× the national rate
Elias: 21 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Tomas: 15 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Isaiah: 26 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Marcos: 29 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Lionel: 15 babies, 6× the national rate
Dominic: 48 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Orlando: 26 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Lorenzo: 28 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Fabian: 15 babies, 5.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in New Mexico, 1985

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1984	US rank
1	Jessica	290	–	1
2	Amanda	253	↑1	4
3	Ashley	228	↑3	2
4	Jennifer	226	↓2	3
5	Stephanie	175	↓1	6
6	Crystal	165	↓1	21
7	Vanessa	164	↑5	42
8	Melissa	162	–	11
9	Nicole	139	↓2	7
10	Amber	130	↑4	16
11	Sarah	125	↓2	5
12	Christina	123	↑5	12
13	Andrea	111	↑3	33
14	Heather	106	↓1	8
15	Michelle	103	↓5	22
16	Kimberly	101	↓5	19
17	Victoria	98	↑6	59
18	Monica	96	↑14	61
19	Rachel	87	↑3	13
20	Rebecca	86	↓2	25
21	Megan	85	↑10	10
22	Danielle	84	↓3	18
23	Erica	84	↑10	34
24	Samantha	83	↑6	29
25	Elizabeth	82	↓10	9
26	Tiffany	79	↓2	23
27	Amy	78	–	20
28	Sara	74	↑6	30
29	Erin	71	↑9	26
30	Felicia	70	new	>100
31	Valerie	70	↓6	71
32	Brittany	69	new	17
33	Maria	69	↓12	52
34	Veronica	69	↓14	72
35	Angela	68	↓7	31
36	Desiree	63	↑5	>100
37	April	62	↓1	47
38	Laura	61	↓9	14
39	Lisa	61	↓2	36
40	Alicia	58	↓14	45
41	Jamie	56	↓6	27
42	Christine	53	new	44
43	Natasha	53	new	79
44	Shannon	51	↓4	41
45	Anna	50	↓2	54
46	Cynthia	50	–	66
47	Lauren	50	↓3	15
48	Krystal	46	new	53
49	Mary	46	↓2	35
50	Patricia	46	↓8	64

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1984	US rank
1	Christopher	411	–	2
2	Michael	383	–	1
3	Matthew	291	↑1	3
4	Daniel	289	↑1	5
5	David	266	↑1	6
6	Joshua	265	↓3	4
7	Robert	228	↑1	8
8	Joseph	225	↑3	10
9	Andrew	186	↑11	11
10	James	180	↓3	7
11	John	178	↓1	9
12	Eric	169	–	21
13	Jason	161	↓4	14
14	Ryan	159	↑4	12
15	Brandon	158	↓2	13
16	Anthony	155	↓2	20
17	Jonathan	138	↓2	17
18	Justin	138	↓2	15
19	Adam	135	↓2	22
20	Steven	131	↑1	24
21	Brian	120	↑1	18
22	Jacob	120	↑7	35
23	Richard	120	↑1	28
24	Aaron	116	↓5	33
25	Kevin	113	↑7	23
26	Gabriel	101	↓3	92
27	William	101	↓2	16
28	Jeremy	99	↓2	30
29	Jose	99	↓1	49
30	Kyle	97	↑11	27
31	Mark	97	↓1	32
32	Nicholas	94	↓5	19
33	Nathan	92	↓2	40
34	Timothy	90	↓1	26
35	Benjamin	88	↑1	31
36	Patrick	83	↑1	37
37	Paul	77	↓3	42
38	Thomas	76	↓3	25
39	Adrian	72	–	93
40	Carlos	72	↓2	74
41	Stephen	71	↑5	36
42	Jeffrey	70	↓2	29
43	Charles	69	new	34
44	Jesse	69	↓2	51
45	Sean	69	↓2	38
46	Cody	65	↑1	52
47	Samuel	62	new	54
48	Juan	61	↓3	65
49	Dustin	60	↓5	41
50	Gregory	57	–	45

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