Popular baby names in Texas, 1918

The most popular baby names in Texas in 1918 were Mary for girls (2,589 babies) and James for boys (2,222). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 92,001 babies born in Texas in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Texas in 1918

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

Girls

Jesusa: 31 babies, 23.4× the national rate
Santos: 36 babies, 19.1× the national rate
Francisca: 88 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Josefa: 49 babies, 18.2× the national rate
Ofelia: 32 babies, 18.2× the national rate
Dominga: 60 babies, 18× the national rate
Guadalupe: 178 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Felipa: 27 babies, 16.6× the national rate
Hortencia: 27 babies, 16.6× the national rate
Petra: 94 babies, 16.4× the national rate

Boys

Pablo: 75 babies, 18.3× the national rate
Eugenio: 22 babies, 16.9× the national rate
Santos: 45 babies, 16.8× the national rate
Guadalupe: 77 babies, 16.7× the national rate
Gilberto: 28 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Rodolfo: 35 babies, 15.8× the national rate
Roberto: 62 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Eduardo: 30 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Raul: 64 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Trinidad: 48 babies, 14.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Texas, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	2,589	–	1
2	Dorothy	1,070	–	3
3	Frances	757	↑5	8
4	Ruby	745	↓1	27
5	Margaret	727	–	4
6	Helen	702	↓2	2
7	Mildred	702	–	6
8	Ruth	662	↓2	5
9	Maria	591	↑1	>100
10	Annie	533	↓1	36
11	Willie	515	↑2	70
12	Juanita	466	↓1	85
13	Evelyn	457	↓1	11
14	Virginia	453	↑1	7
15	Gladys	410	↑2	22
16	Hazel	410	↑2	33
17	Louise	395	↑7	18
18	Thelma	382	↓2	32
19	Edna	380	↓5	23
20	Lois	379	↑1	42
21	Alice	376	↑2	13
22	Doris	371	↑7	19
23	Pauline	367	↓1	35
24	Elizabeth	345	↑2	9
25	Martha	336	↓5	25
26	Lucille	334	↓7	29
27	Lillian	330	↓2	15
28	Marie	328	↓1	12
29	Opal	305	↑9	94
30	Lillie	299	↓2	89
31	Jessie	298	↓1	75
32	Ethel	293	↑3	28
33	Anna	283	↑1	10
34	Bessie	279	↑7	61
35	Irene	279	↓2	16
36	Clara	276	↑4	43
37	Edith	259	↓5	30
38	Eva	256	↑5	55
39	Emma	246	↓8	46
40	Myrtle	245	↓3	62
41	Vera	245	↑4	68
42	Bernice	241	↓3	41
43	Minnie	240	↓7	88
44	Josephine	233	↑4	24
45	Beatrice	226	↓3	40
46	Ella	218	↓2	84
47	Julia	214	new	48
48	Ida	209	new	57
49	Mattie	209	–	100
50	Velma	209	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	James	2,222	–	3
2	John	1,781	↑1	1
3	William	1,751	↓1	2
4	Robert	1,293	–	4
5	George	847	↑1	6
6	Charles	846	↓1	5
7	Joe	745	–	34
8	Thomas	611	–	10
9	Jack	580	↑1	21
10	Henry	543	↑1	16
11	Frank	524	↓2	9
12	Willie	504	↑1	29
13	Edward	422	↑1	8
14	Jose	418	↓2	>100
15	Raymond	411	↑3	15
16	Walter	406	↑1	11
17	Roy	397	↓1	32
18	Joseph	393	↓3	7
19	Albert	360	↑1	19
20	Woodrow	340	↑3	58
21	Manuel	307	↑4	>100
22	Arthur	300	↑4	17
23	David	296	↓1	28
24	Richard	287	↓3	12
25	Fred	268	↓6	33
26	Clarence	261	↑1	23
27	Louis	261	↓3	24
28	Charlie	258	↑5	70
29	Paul	257	–	14
30	Ernest	251	↑5	37
31	Juan	249	↓3	>100
32	Harold	237	–	13
33	Earl	231	↓3	31
34	Carl	229	↑8	25
35	Jesse	226	↑2	78
36	Cecil	215	↓5	82
37	Jesus	209	↑2	>100
38	Herbert	199	↑10	40
39	Marvin	199	↑1	68
40	Johnnie	197	new	>100
41	Harry	192	↓5	20
42	Alfred	188	new	42
43	Lee	188	↑1	86
44	Eugene	186	↑3	35
45	Ralph	185	↓2	22
46	Howard	181	↓12	26
47	Leon	181	new	77
48	Floyd	178	↓10	61
49	Clyde	175	new	67
50	Jessie	171	new	>100

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