Popular baby names in Texas, 1930

The most popular baby names in Texas in 1930 were Mary for girls (3,395 babies) and James for boys (2,730). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 118,497 babies born in Texas in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Texas in 1930

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

Girls

Elida: 88 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Ninfa: 34 babies, 16.9× the national rate
Jesusa: 40 babies, 16.8× the national rate
Santos: 42 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Herminia: 64 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Oralia: 47 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Josefa: 48 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Genoveva: 31 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Gregoria: 30 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Tomasa: 42 babies, 13.9× the national rate

Boys

Adan: 41 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Reymundo: 36 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Domingo: 106 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Ramiro: 85 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Guadalupe: 181 babies, 13.7× the national rate
Raymundo: 34 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Santos: 66 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Rogelio: 31 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Alejandro: 67 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Maria: 36 babies, 12.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Texas, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	3,395	–	1
2	Betty	2,259	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,702	–	3
4	Maria	1,359	–	99
5	Billie	938	–	79
6	Doris	863	–	9
7	Helen	737	–	4
8	Margaret	637	↑2	5
9	Wanda	637	↑3	56
10	Frances	634	↓2	16
11	Joyce	633	↓2	18
12	Virginia	564	↑1	12
13	Juanita	546	↑1	57
14	Ruby	535	↓3	36
15	Barbara	526	↑5	6
16	Martha	518	–	27
17	Patsy	517	↑4	97
18	Mildred	485	↓3	21
19	Ruth	463	↓2	10
20	Bobbie	460	↓2	>100
21	Peggy	442	↑2	67
22	Gloria	421	↑2	30
23	Annie	420	↓1	40
24	Evelyn	403	↓5	19
25	Alice	366	–	20
26	Norma	351	↑1	25
27	Patricia	341	↑6	7
28	Dolores	330	new	13
29	Willie	330	↓3	87
30	Emma	307	↓1	73
31	Guadalupe	305	↑6	>100
32	Jo	305	↑6	>100
33	Lois	301	↓3	17
34	Elizabeth	295	↓6	15
35	Eva	288	↓1	86
36	Jean	284	↑6	14
37	Gladys	281	↓6	48
38	Margie	277	↓3	>100
39	Thelma	273	↓7	45
40	Anna	253	↓4	23
41	Hazel	247	↑2	71
42	Clara	246	↑2	64
43	Edna	245	↓4	51
44	Irene	243	new	33
45	Joan	239	new	8
46	Anita	237	new	>100
47	Nancy	235	new	24
48	Louise	230	↓7	31
49	Bonnie	229	new	78
50	Julia	227	new	90

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	James	2,730	–	2
2	Billy	1,845	↑2	20
3	Robert	1,812	–	1
4	John	1,741	↓2	3
5	Charles	1,593	↑1	6
6	William	1,555	↓1	4
7	Joe	1,117	–	27
8	Jose	882	–	>100
9	George	874	–	8
10	Bobby	852	↑1	41
11	Jack	730	↓1	14
12	Thomas	663	–	11
13	Richard	660	–	5
14	Donald	593	↑2	7
15	David	575	↑9	15
16	Frank	550	↓2	13
17	Kenneth	540	↑4	17
18	Juan	532	↓1	>100
19	Henry	528	↑3	22
20	Willie	525	↓5	29
21	Edward	491	↓3	10
22	Roy	476	↑4	33
23	Manuel	472	↓3	>100
24	Harold	466	↓1	18
25	Jesus	436	–	>100
26	Raymond	400	↓7	16
27	Walter	379	–	19
28	Paul	355	–	12
29	Albert	343	↑6	24
30	Joseph	331	↑1	9
31	Antonio	309	↑1	>100
32	Jimmie	307	↑17	86
33	Louis	307	↑4	34
34	Pedro	302	↑4	>100
35	Eugene	298	↓1	21
36	Clarence	294	↓7	39
37	Arthur	293	↓7	23
38	Jimmy	283	new	>100
39	Jesse	278	↑7	94
40	Jerry	277	new	51
41	Billie	275	↓8	>100
42	Fred	275	↓6	32
43	Carl	273	↑2	26
44	Marvin	270	↓3	48
45	Ernest	267	↓2	43
46	Johnny	265	new	>100
47	Francisco	260	↓7	>100
48	Ramon	258	↓1	>100
49	Melvin	234	new	50
50	Don	231	new	68

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