Popular baby names in Texas, 1924

The most popular baby names in Texas in 1924 were Mary for girls (3,528 babies) and James for boys (2,866). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 118,527 babies born in Texas in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Texas in 1924

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: 54 babies, 19.6× the national rate
Elida: 54 babies, 18.3× the national rate
Santos: 88 babies, 17.6× the national rate
Josefa: 63 babies, 16× the national rate
Tomasa: 56 babies, 15.6× the national rate
Hortencia: 46 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Guadalupe: 290 babies, 15× the national rate
Felipa: 42 babies, 14.7× the national rate
Manuela: 147 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Herminia: 59 babies, 14.4× the national rate

Boys

Santos: 92 babies, 16.7× the national rate
Guadalupe: 151 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Ramiro: 37 babies, 14.9× the national rate
Benito: 86 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Reynaldo: 44 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Esteban: 33 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Vicente: 63 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Gilberto: 60 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Alejandro: 38 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Gregorio: 67 babies, 13.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Texas, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	3,528	–	1
2	Dorothy	2,067	–	2
3	Maria	1,119	–	>100
4	Helen	984	–	3
5	Doris	937	↑2	9
6	Frances	868	–	10
7	Margaret	861	↓2	5
8	Betty	860	↑3	4
9	Ruby	800	↓1	26
10	Mildred	740	↓1	8
11	Ruth	739	↓1	6
12	Juanita	726	–	48
13	Virginia	642	–	7
14	Annie	584	↑2	32
15	Evelyn	530	↓1	12
16	Billie	519	↑5	>100
17	Willie	519	↓2	68
18	Martha	487	↓1	21
19	Thelma	401	↑5	33
20	Lois	398	↑5	22
21	Gladys	391	↓2	30
22	Alice	389	↓4	15
23	Marjorie	383	↑3	17
24	Edna	365	↓4	31
25	Elizabeth	360	↓3	11
26	Hazel	359	↑2	42
27	Marie	353	–	14
28	Louise	346	↓5	24
29	Lillian	340	–	23
30	Emma	332	↑1	57
31	Lillie	330	↑7	97
32	Margie	322	–	>100
33	Wanda	317	–	74
34	Anna	314	↑2	13
35	Joyce	302	new	83
36	Pauline	301	↓6	38
37	Gloria	297	new	41
38	Irene	297	↓4	18
39	Guadalupe	290	↑9	>100
40	Eva	283	↓3	66
41	Edith	281	↑2	36
42	Bernice	277	↓7	47
43	Julia	269	↑7	62
44	Rosa	266	↑5	>100
45	Clara	261	↓3	56
46	Josephine	257	↓7	34
47	Norma	254	↓2	40
48	Lucille	249	↓4	37
49	Jessie	248	↓2	91
50	Beatrice	246	↓9	50

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	James	2,866	–	4
2	William	1,977	–	3
3	John	1,968	–	2
4	Robert	1,757	–	1
5	Charles	1,186	–	5
6	George	955	–	6
7	Joe	898	–	35
8	Jack	814	–	17
9	Billy	755	↑7	63
10	Jose	683	↓1	>100
11	Thomas	664	↓1	11
12	Frank	649	↓1	12
13	Henry	589	–	18
14	Willie	568	↓2	30
15	Richard	504	↑2	8
16	Edward	493	↓1	9
17	Raymond	489	↓3	15
18	Manuel	485	↑2	>100
19	Roy	475	↓1	31
20	Juan	467	↑3	>100
21	Walter	454	↓2	16
22	Harold	442	↑2	13
23	Joseph	404	↓1	7
24	David	390	↓3	24
25	Albert	354	–	21
26	Jesus	354	–	>100
27	Louis	350	↑2	28
28	Paul	348	↓1	14
29	Clarence	332	↓1	29
30	Fred	322	↑2	32
31	Arthur	321	–	20
32	Ernest	305	↑3	37
33	Kenneth	300	↑7	19
34	Earl	282	↓1	33
35	Eugene	279	↓1	25
36	Pedro	275	↑8	>100
37	Jesse	271	↓7	86
38	Carl	270	↓1	27
39	Calvin	262	new	44
40	Howard	250	↓1	26
41	Melvin	250	↑4	48
42	Antonio	247	↓6	>100
43	Marvin	244	↓2	50
44	Ralph	234	↓6	23
45	Lee	228	↓3	83
46	Charlie	227	↑1	80
47	Daniel	226	new	47
48	Samuel	226	↓5	45
49	Alfred	221	new	43
50	Johnnie	221	–	>100

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