Name Legacy

Baby names in New Mexico, 2010s

2010–2019 · 153,784 recorded births

Noah was the most common name given in New Mexico across the 2010s, with 1,268 births in the decade. The state recorded 153,784 births in total over those years.

Most distinctive to New Mexico in the 2010s

Names given far more often here than nationally in these years. The multiplier is conservative — it is the low end of the plausible range, so a name carried by a handful of births does not outrank one carried by hundreds.

NameBirthsvs national
Female207185×
Male181177×
Yalexa3347×
Estevan13822×
Zia8411×
Nizhoni2211×
Esperanza107
Estrella165

Top 25 in the 2010s

RankNameBirths
#1Noah1,268
#2Sophia1,218
#3Elijah1,150
#4Isabella1,107
#5Mia1,062
#6Liam1,004
#7Jacob983
#8Michael936
#9Jayden900
#10Emma899
#11Josiah885
#12Aiden881
#13Daniel872
#14Olivia862
#15Gabriel834
#16Ethan801
#16Logan801
#18Joshua764
#19Julian750
#20Alexander746
#21Ava742
#22Isaiah735
#23Joseph730
#24Santiago719
#25Mason712

Other decades in New Mexico

All New Mexico names, 2025

Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. State records begin in 1910. Names given to fewer than five babies in a state in a year are withheld at source. namelegacy.org