Popular baby names in Texas, 1925

The most popular baby names in Texas in 1925 were Mary for girls (3,535 babies) and James for boys (2,836). James ranked #4 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 117,016 babies born in Texas in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Texas in 1925

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: 37 babies, 17.8× the national rate
Refugia: 32 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Elida: 60 babies, 16.7× the national rate
Santos: 67 babies, 16.1× the national rate
Josefa: 67 babies, 15.7× the national rate
Enriqueta: 47 babies, 15.5× the national rate
Genoveva: 40 babies, 15.5× the national rate
Gregoria: 40 babies, 14.9× the national rate
Dominga: 76 babies, 14.7× the national rate
Estela: 49 babies, 14.4× the national rate

Boys

Ramiro: 58 babies, 16× the national rate
Lucio: 33 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Guadalupe: 156 babies, 14.9× the national rate
Gilberto: 71 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Pablo: 114 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Domingo: 98 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Santos: 85 babies, 13.7× the national rate
Esteban: 35 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Guillermo: 57 babies, 13.1× the national rate
Pedro: 271 babies, 12.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Texas, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	3,535	–	1
2	Dorothy	2,134	–	2
3	Maria	1,183	–	>100
4	Betty	1,096	↑4	3
5	Helen	960	↓1	4
6	Doris	897	↓1	8
7	Frances	795	↓1	11
8	Margaret	771	↓1	5
9	Ruby	749	–	30
10	Juanita	684	↑2	49
11	Ruth	678	–	6
12	Mildred	660	↓2	9
13	Billie	607	↑3	>100
14	Virginia	569	↓1	7
15	Annie	541	↓1	32
16	Evelyn	522	↓1	12
17	Willie	455	–	68
18	Martha	448	–	23
19	Alice	432	↑3	15
20	Gladys	407	↑1	33
21	Gloria	384	↑16	20
22	Lois	376	↓2	18
23	Edna	369	↑1	37
24	Wanda	361	↑9	72
25	Louise	351	↑3	27
26	Hazel	329	–	45
27	Thelma	324	↓8	35
28	Emma	320	↑2	57
29	Marie	317	↓2	16
30	Margie	315	↑2	99
31	Joyce	311	↑4	59
32	Elizabeth	307	↓7	10
33	Anna	302	↑1	13
34	Eva	301	↑6	71
35	Pauline	299	↑1	38
36	Lillian	296	↓7	25
37	Lillie	289	↓6	91
38	Norma	289	↑9	34
39	Marjorie	286	↓16	21
40	Irene	273	↓2	19
41	Clara	272	↑4	55
42	Johnnie	268	new	>100
43	Edith	262	↓2	42
44	Jessie	262	↑5	97
45	Guadalupe	261	↓6	>100
46	Bernice	258	↓4	46
47	Ethel	249	new	43
48	Julia	249	↓5	65
49	Rosa	242	↓5	>100
50	Vera	239	new	86

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	James	2,836	–	4
2	William	1,986	–	3
3	John	1,906	–	2
4	Robert	1,726	–	1
5	Charles	1,222	–	5
6	Joe	976	↑1	34
7	George	917	↓1	6
8	Billy	895	↑1	49
9	Jack	845	↓1	17
10	Jose	775	–	>100
11	Thomas	680	–	11
12	Frank	603	–	12
13	Willie	595	↑1	27
14	Henry	518	↓1	18
15	Raymond	504	↑2	15
16	Edward	489	–	9
17	Richard	489	↓2	8
18	Harold	464	↑4	14
19	Roy	432	–	32
20	Juan	430	–	>100
21	Manuel	420	↓3	>100
22	Walter	417	↓1	16
23	David	409	↑1	22
24	Joseph	400	↓1	7
25	Jesus	388	↑1	>100
26	Paul	364	↑2	13
27	Albert	354	↓2	21
28	Clarence	335	↑1	30
29	Kenneth	319	↑4	19
30	Louis	317	↓3	29
31	Eugene	315	↑4	24
32	Fred	308	↓2	33
33	Ernest	291	↓1	37
34	Jesse	291	↑3	85
35	Earl	288	↓1	31
36	Carl	281	↑2	28
37	Arthur	275	↓6	20
38	Pedro	271	↓2	>100
39	Lee	262	↑6	82
40	Marvin	262	↑3	51
41	Antonio	247	↑1	>100
42	Francisco	243	new	>100
43	Donald	242	new	10
44	Floyd	238	new	58
45	Howard	237	↓5	26
46	Ray	236	new	64
47	Calvin	232	↓8	47
48	Cecil	225	new	87
49	Daniel	224	↓2	44
50	Johnnie	221	–	100

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