Popular baby names in Texas, 1928

The most popular baby names in Texas in 1928 were Mary for girls (3,419 babies) and James for boys (2,622). James ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 118,268 babies born in Texas in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Texas in 1928

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: 39 babies, 18.2× the national rate
Elida: 77 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Santos: 48 babies, 16.4× the national rate
Hortencia: 55 babies, 16× the national rate
Ninfa: 43 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Oralia: 33 babies, 15× the national rate
Josefa: 57 babies, 14.7× the national rate
Gregoria: 40 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Tomasa: 56 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Estela: 54 babies, 14.2× the national rate

Boys

Adan: 40 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Fidencio: 43 babies, 16.1× the national rate
Domingo: 130 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Marcos: 40 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Guadalupe: 173 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Ramiro: 54 babies, 14.1× the national rate
Humberto: 30 babies, 13× the national rate
Santos: 75 babies, 12.8× the national rate
Ismael: 34 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Felipe: 83 babies, 12.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Texas, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	3,419	–	1
2	Betty	1,886	↑1	2
3	Dorothy	1,845	↓1	3
4	Maria	1,341	–	>100
5	Doris	881	↑1	7
6	Helen	869	↓1	4
7	Billie	846	–	96
8	Frances	707	–	13
9	Margaret	670	–	5
10	Ruby	624	↑1	34
11	Virginia	585	↑1	9
12	Juanita	571	↓2	58
13	Wanda	569	↑1	63
14	Mildred	546	↓1	15
15	Martha	510	↑1	22
16	Ruth	510	↓1	6
17	Annie	482	↑2	37
18	Joyce	479	↑2	30
19	Evelyn	466	↓1	17
20	Willie	409	↓3	74
21	Gloria	399	↑1	25
22	Alice	388	↓1	19
23	Peggy	378	↑11	76
24	Barbara	363	↑2	8
25	Bobbie	360	↓1	>100
26	Norma	343	↑3	23
27	Lois	338	↓4	18
28	Patsy	335	↑12	>100
29	Emma	333	↑2	67
30	Thelma	322	↑2	40
31	Guadalupe	297	↑4	>100
32	Elizabeth	290	↑4	14
33	Margie	288	↓3	>100
34	Marjorie	287	↓6	29
35	Irene	280	↓2	28
36	Anna	276	↑11	16
37	Gladys	276	↓12	41
38	Hazel	269	–	59
39	Edna	267	↓12	45
40	Lillie	262	↑2	>100
41	Jean	261	↑4	12
42	Patricia	261	new	11
43	Lillian	257	↓2	35
44	Eva	254	↓1	79
45	Pauline	253	↓1	48
46	Julia	251	↑2	80
47	Rosa	251	↑2	>100
48	Louise	249	↓9	31
49	Marie	245	↓12	21
50	Dolores	238	new	20

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	James	2,622	–	3
2	Robert	1,890	↑2	1
3	John	1,801	↓1	2
4	William	1,655	↓1	4
5	Billy	1,576	–	27
6	Charles	1,413	–	5
7	Joe	1,075	–	30
8	Jose	924	↑1	>100
9	George	872	↓1	8
10	Jack	754	–	15
11	Thomas	629	–	11
12	Frank	588	–	12
13	Richard	577	↑2	6
14	Willie	568	–	29
15	Bobby	553	↑6	65
16	Edward	527	↑2	10
17	Henry	517	↓4	21
18	Raymond	511	↓1	16
19	Juan	488	↑1	>100
20	Manuel	485	↓4	>100
21	David	471	↑2	19
22	Kenneth	449	↑6	17
23	Roy	442	↓1	34
24	Harold	440	↓5	14
25	Donald	437	↑2	7
26	Walter	421	↓2	18
27	Jesus	390	↓1	>100
28	Paul	342	↓3	13
29	Albert	339	–	23
30	Joseph	339	↑2	9
31	Clarence	330	↓1	35
32	Eugene	318	↑1	20
33	Billie	308	↑6	>100
34	Herbert	303	new	25
35	Louis	292	↓4	32
36	Arthur	291	↑2	22
37	Jesse	282	↑5	91
38	Marvin	282	↑9	46
39	Pedro	275	↑10	>100
40	Earl	272	↑1	37
41	Antonio	259	↓5	>100
42	Francisco	259	↓5	>100
43	Fred	259	↓8	36
44	Johnnie	256	new	>100
45	Carl	255	↓11	28
46	Ernest	248	↓6	43
47	Alfred	245	new	33
48	Jimmie	245	↓4	100
49	Daniel	236	↓6	47
50	Melvin	230	↓4	48

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