Popular baby names in Texas, 1915

The most popular baby names in Texas in 1915 were Mary for girls (2,051 babies) and James for boys (1,780). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 80,135 babies born in Texas in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Texas in 1915

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

Girls

Santos: 42 babies, 21.3× the national rate
Enriqueta: 25 babies, 20.4× the national rate
Beatriz: 22 babies, 20.1× the national rate
Gregoria: 33 babies, 19.8× the national rate
Manuela: 96 babies, 19.7× the national rate
Josefa: 49 babies, 19.6× the national rate
Felipa: 28 babies, 19.4× the national rate
Herlinda: 25 babies, 18.4× the national rate
Tomasa: 23 babies, 18.1× the national rate
Hortencia: 22 babies, 17.9× the national rate

Boys

Margarito: 19 babies, 20.7× the national rate
Pablo: 51 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Lupe: 25 babies, 18.5× the national rate
Domingo: 61 babies, 18.2× the national rate
Arturo: 38 babies, 18.1× the national rate
Guadalupe: 70 babies, 17.6× the national rate
Jesus: 185 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Gregorio: 52 babies, 17.3× the national rate
Gilberto: 30 babies, 17.2× the national rate
Benito: 24 babies, 16.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Texas, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	2,051	–	1
2	Dorothy	683	↑1	3
3	Ruby	677	↓1	24
4	Ruth	627	↑1	5
5	Mildred	614	↑3	6
6	Maria	536	↓2	>100
7	Margaret	527	–	4
8	Helen	524	↓2	2
9	Frances	520	–	9
10	Annie	507	–	36
11	Gladys	453	↑1	21
12	Willie	451	↓1	72
13	Edna	393	↑5	20
14	Evelyn	386	↑9	10
15	Elizabeth	369	↑2	8
16	Thelma	368	–	30
17	Pauline	366	↓3	32
18	Juanita	356	↓3	92
19	Marie	354	↑8	11
20	Lois	353	↑4	47
21	Hazel	339	↓8	26
22	Lucille	339	↓3	29
23	Lillian	326	↓2	15
24	Louise	320	↑1	18
25	Alice	316	↑1	13
26	Virginia	307	↓6	12
27	Lillie	294	↑1	84
28	Ethel	292	↑2	23
29	Opal	287	↓7	90
30	Martha	285	↑2	25
31	Clara	270	↑4	38
32	Jessie	255	↑2	66
33	Emma	252	↑3	40
34	Anna	251	↑5	7
35	Irene	245	↓2	17
36	Bessie	244	↓7	57
37	Minnie	242	↓6	68
38	Edith	241	↓1	31
39	Doris	234	↑1	34
40	Bernice	229	↑2	42
41	Myrtle	229	↑3	58
42	Mattie	228	↓4	91
43	Beatrice	212	↑2	37
44	Josephine	207	↓1	22
45	Vera	206	↓4	65
46	Eva	203	–	55
47	Ella	202	↑3	75
48	Ida	198	new	54
49	Velma	198	new	94
50	Bertha	196	↓2	46

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	James	1,780	–	3
2	William	1,527	↑1	2
3	John	1,471	↓1	1
4	Robert	1,064	–	4
5	Charles	710	↑1	7
6	George	692	↓1	6
7	Joe	552	–	38
8	Frank	511	↑3	9
9	Thomas	500	↓1	10
10	Jack	480	↓1	27
11	Henry	470	↓1	14
12	Willie	455	–	30
13	Walter	370	↑2	11
14	Jose	361	–	>100
15	Albert	347	↑4	17
16	Roy	346	↑2	32
17	Edward	342	↓1	8
18	Raymond	340	↓1	16
19	Joseph	338	↓6	5
20	Fred	261	–	26
21	Louis	259	↑2	23
22	Arthur	256	↑3	18
23	Paul	247	↑5	13
24	Clarence	245	↓3	24
25	Richard	244	↑1	15
26	David	236	↑7	31
27	Manuel	232	↓5	>100
28	Juan	231	↓1	>100
29	Ernest	230	↓5	35
30	Jesse	230	↑6	77
31	Carl	216	↓2	22
32	Charlie	203	–	75
33	Woodrow	194	↓3	83
34	Eugene	192	–	41
35	Herman	191	↑4	56
36	Marvin	191	↑12	72
37	Harold	190	↑5	12
38	Earl	189	↓3	33
39	Harry	186	↑4	19
40	Cecil	185	↓9	76
41	Jesus	185	↑6	>100
42	Lee	180	↑4	84
43	Clyde	170	↓5	63
44	Ralph	170	↓3	21
45	Johnnie	169	new	>100
46	Herbert	167	↓1	40
47	Howard	163	new	25
48	Jessie	159	new	>100
49	Sam	158	↓9	68
50	Samuel	157	↓6	39

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