Popular baby names in Texas, 1931

The most popular baby names in Texas in 1931 were Mary for girls (3,300 babies) and James for boys (2,606). James ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 111,399 babies born in Texas in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Texas in 1931

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: 34 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Elida: 90 babies, 18× the national rate
Santos: 29 babies, 17.2× the national rate
Josefa: 61 babies, 16.3× the national rate
Oralia: 52 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Dominga: 57 babies, 15.7× the national rate
Genoveva: 31 babies, 15.5× the national rate
Gregoria: 39 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Hortencia: 62 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Francisca: 100 babies, 14.2× the national rate

Boys

Noe: 29 babies, 16.1× the national rate
Adan: 28 babies, 15.5× the national rate
Esteban: 36 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Domingo: 104 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Gilberto: 109 babies, 14× the national rate
Humberto: 44 babies, 13.6× the national rate
Ramiro: 68 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Pablo: 103 babies, 12.5× the national rate
Guadalupe: 208 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Gonzalo: 31 babies, 12.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Texas, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	3,300	–	1
2	Betty	2,174	–	2
3	Dorothy	1,477	–	3
4	Maria	1,197	–	>100
5	Billie	807	–	81
6	Doris	751	–	10
7	Joyce	686	↑4	15
8	Helen	682	↓1	6
9	Barbara	652	↑6	4
10	Margaret	616	↓2	7
11	Wanda	615	↓2	54
12	Patsy	593	↑5	83
13	Frances	585	↓3	18
14	Virginia	557	↓2	12
15	Peggy	546	↑6	42
16	Juanita	513	↓3	57
17	Martha	507	↓1	28
18	Bobbie	483	↑2	>100
19	Ruby	449	↓5	39
20	Gloria	445	↑2	23
21	Mildred	414	↓3	26
22	Ruth	401	↓3	11
23	Patricia	398	↑4	8
24	Annie	374	↓1	41
25	Norma	371	↑1	22
26	Alice	360	↓1	21
27	Evelyn	343	↓3	24
28	Jo	339	↑4	>100
29	Dolores	322	↓1	14
30	Elizabeth	296	↑4	16
31	Shirley	284	new	9
32	Nancy	275	↑15	17
33	Joan	270	↑12	5
34	Emma	269	↓4	76
35	Lois	267	↓2	20
36	Edna	265	↑7	52
37	Margie	262	↑1	>100
38	Jean	261	↓2	13
39	Willie	259	↓10	93
40	Eva	253	↓5	94
41	Thelma	247	↓2	53
42	Guadalupe	243	↓11	>100
43	Bonnie	230	↑6	73
44	Clara	226	↓2	61
45	Julia	225	↑5	91
46	Anna	223	↓6	25
47	Gladys	210	↓10	55
48	Rosa	210	new	>100
49	Marjorie	207	new	34
50	Wilma	206	new	69

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	James	2,606	–	2
2	Robert	1,730	↑1	1
3	Billy	1,706	↓1	19
4	John	1,564	–	3
5	Charles	1,560	–	6
6	William	1,440	–	4
7	Joe	1,038	–	29
8	Bobby	883	↑2	32
9	George	770	–	8
10	Jose	735	↓2	>100
11	Donald	655	↑3	7
12	Richard	640	↑1	5
13	Thomas	639	↓1	10
14	Jack	613	↓3	15
15	Kenneth	536	↑2	14
16	Frank	526	–	16
17	David	514	↓2	13
18	Henry	468	↑1	22
19	Willie	467	↑1	31
20	Raymond	450	↑6	17
21	Edward	436	–	11
22	Juan	432	↓4	>100
23	Roy	417	↓1	35
24	Harold	411	–	18
25	Manuel	382	↓2	>100
26	Jesus	372	↓1	>100
27	Paul	353	↑1	12
28	Walter	346	↓1	20
29	Jerry	329	↑11	43
30	Antonio	304	↑1	>100
31	Albert	298	↓2	24
32	Jimmy	298	↑6	89
33	Jimmie	292	↓1	81
34	Clarence	282	↑2	39
35	Joseph	268	↓5	9
36	Marvin	267	↑8	45
37	Don	261	↑13	59
38	Arthur	260	↓1	23
39	Fred	254	↑3	33
40	Carl	251	↑3	28
41	Louis	249	↓8	37
42	Jesse	248	↓3	97
43	Eugene	246	↓8	21
44	Daniel	245	new	44
45	Francisco	229	↑2	>100
46	Ramon	229	↑2	>100
47	Tommy	224	new	>100
48	Howard	222	new	34
49	Ernest	221	↓4	47
50	Johnny	220	↓4	>100

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