Popular baby names in Texas, 1911

The most popular baby names in Texas in 1911 were Mary for girls (906 babies) and James for boys (435). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 28,678 babies born in Texas in 1911 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Texas in 1911

Names given at least 15 times in Texas that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Tomasa: 21 babies, 19.6× the national rate
Petra: 53 babies, 18.3× the national rate
Leonor: 22 babies, 18.1× the national rate
Josefa: 31 babies, 17× the national rate
Guadalupe: 52 babies, 16.4× the national rate
Francisca: 36 babies, 15.7× the national rate
Juana: 33 babies, 15× the national rate
Herminia: 17 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Margarita: 47 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Manuela: 37 babies, 14.2× the national rate

Boys

Santos: 16 babies, 23.2× the national rate
Guadalupe: 23 babies, 19.6× the national rate
Pablo: 23 babies, 18.3× the national rate
Jesus: 52 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Felipe: 16 babies, 15.8× the national rate
Alberto: 17 babies, 15× the national rate
Pedro: 45 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Francisco: 48 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Miguel: 21 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Luis: 25 babies, 13.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Texas, 1911

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	Mary	906	–	1
2	Ruby	379	–	22
3	Annie	284	–	24
4	Ruth	253	↑1	5
5	Gladys	243	↑1	18
6	Maria	242	↑1	>100
7	Frances	224	↑1	10
8	Mildred	215	↑4	8
9	Dorothy	213	↑9	4
10	Margaret	209	↓1	3
11	Helen	208	↓1	2
12	Thelma	206	↓1	27
13	Lillie	194	↑4	60
14	Edna	192	↑1	17
15	Willie	192	↓11	61
16	Lucille	166	↑3	32
17	Alice	165	↑6	11
18	Louise	163	↑19	19
19	Lois	157	↑12	68
20	Opal	155	↑6	81
21	Ethel	154	↓5	15
22	Juanita	154	↑11	>100
23	Lillian	154	↓9	13
24	Minnie	154	↓4	52
25	Marie	149	↑4	9
26	Hazel	145	↓4	25
27	Emma	139	↑1	35
28	Mattie	137	↑2	65
29	Martha	136	↑11	28
30	Pauline	136	↑2	38
31	Elizabeth	135	↓10	7
32	Irene	133	↓5	21
33	Bessie	130	↓20	40
34	Velma	127	–	90
35	Evelyn	123	↑10	16
36	Ida	121	↑8	45
37	Clara	120	↓2	33
38	Grace	120	↑5	23
39	Myrtle	120	↓15	50
40	Josephine	119	new	29
41	Beatrice	114	↓3	37
42	Julia	114	↓3	44
43	Virginia	112	↑4	26
44	Anna	111	↓3	6
45	Jessie	111	↓9	66
46	Vera	109	–	67
47	Alma	105	↓5	62
48	Bertha	100	↓23	36
49	Eva	100	↓1	46
50	Elsie	96	new	41

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1910	US rank
1	James	435	↑1	3
2	John	374	↓1	1
3	William	371	–	2
4	Robert	285	–	5
5	George	177	↑2	4
6	Willie	167	–	14
7	Joe	158	↓2	29
8	Charles	154	↑3	7
9	Jack	145	↓1	25
10	Henry	139	–	11
11	Thomas	139	↑2	10
12	Frank	133	↓3	8
13	Jose	131	↓1	>100
14	Joseph	101	–	6
15	Manuel	99	↑9	>100
16	Walter	98	–	12
17	Albert	94	↓2	15
18	Edward	90	–	9
19	Fred	89	↑2	22
20	Roy	82	↓3	31
21	Charlie	81	↑2	45
22	Juan	80	↓3	>100
23	Raymond	78	↓1	19
24	Clarence	69	↑1	23
25	Louis	69	↓5	21
26	Paul	67	↑3	17
27	David	65	↑3	27
28	Jessie	62	↑16	79
29	Richard	62	↓3	20
30	Sam	59	↑5	47
31	Ernest	56	↑5	32
32	Floyd	56	↓5	57
33	Arthur	53	↓1	18
34	Cecil	52	↑9	76
35	Herman	52	new	49
36	Jesus	52	↑9	>100
37	Ralph	51	new	24
38	Jesse	50	↑12	72
39	Tom	50	new	>100
40	Francisco	48	new	>100
41	Lee	48	↓13	67
42	Eugene	47	new	43
43	Howard	46	↑3	28
44	Earl	45	↓5	34
45	Pedro	45	↓5	>100
46	Carl	44	↓12	26
47	Clyde	44	↓9	61
48	Harry	44	↑1	13
49	Oscar	44	↓1	68
50	Alvin	43	new	89

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