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stands for the incidence of that name in combina- 

 tion with another name; e. g., Jose 115 + 84 means 

 115 cases of Jos^ alone and 84 cases in combina- 

 tions, and Luis 77 + 6 means 77 cases of Luis alone 

 and 6 times combined with Jos6. 



The incidence of the remaining names was: 22 

 names, four persons; 45 names, three persons; 78 

 names, two persons; and 125 names, one person. 

 Jose, in all combinations, comprised a trifle more 

 than 10 percent of the male population. The first 

 12 names listed covered more than 40 percent of 

 the males; and the first 21 names comprised a little 

 more than one-half of the male population of 

 Quiroga. It will be noted that there is a decided 

 break between the sixteenth- and seventeenth- 

 place names, and that each of the first 16 names, 

 plus Guadalupe, comprises 1 percent or more of the 

 males. 



COMPARISONS 



An attempt was made to determine if there have 

 been any important changes in the popularity of 

 the various baptismal names since colonial times. 

 For lack of extensive lists of Quiroga baptismal 

 names during the sixteenth century, we examined 

 the names of 1,579 males mentioned in O'Gorman's 

 (1945) Catalogo de Pobladores de Nueva Espana. 

 These males were distributed among 99 baptismal 

 names. The first 5 names (Juan, 277; Pedro and 

 Pero, 160; Francisco, 134; Alonso, 112; and Diego, 

 104) comprised approximately half of the males. 

 The first 16 names (the above 5 plus Luis 62, 

 Antonio and Antdn 58, Caspar 40, Cristobal 39, 

 Hernando, Fernando, and Hernan 59, Martin 36, 

 Melchor 26, Miguel 25, Rodrigo 24, Gonzalo 20, 

 Jerdnimo 18) covered more than three-fourths of 

 the males. Other names, in order, were Alvaro, 

 Baltasar, Bartolome, Sancho, Andres, Jorge, 

 Carlos, Sebastian, Bernardino, Gregorio, Manuel, 

 Ruy, Garcia, Gabriel, Felipe, Marcos, Tomas, 

 Agustin, Lorenzo, Santiago, Leonardo, Bias, 

 Domingo, Guillen, Mateo, Esteban, Felix, Gil, and 

 Lope — which includes the top 45 names and all 

 with an incidence of 5 or more. 



Comparison of the two lists shows great differ- 

 ences. In the sixteenth century there was much 

 less variety than at present. Jesiis was not used at 

 all in the sixteenth century ; and Jose was not used 

 in that form although there were 4 Joseph, and 1 

 each of Josepe and Jusepe. Names found in the 

 top 16 of both lists were Juan, Pedro, Francisco, 



Diego, Luis, Antonio, and Miguel. In addition to 

 Jose and Jesds, Rafael, Salvador, Ram6n, Leo- 

 poldo, Trinidad, Isidro, and Guadalupe (from the 

 first 20 on the 1940 list) were completely absent or 

 were not in the first 45 names on the sixteenth 

 century list. On the other hand, from the top 20 

 in the sixteenth century list, Caspar, Crist6bal, 

 Fernando, Martin, Melchor, Rodrigo, Gonzalo, 

 Jer6nimo, Baltasar, Alvaro, Bartolome, and Sancho 

 were absent from the top 50 or were completely 

 lacking on the 1940 list. Clearly the trend has been 

 to minimize the old Hispanic given names (such as 

 Hernando, Rodrigo, Gonzalo, Alvaro, Alonso, 

 Sancho, Ruy, Garcia, and the like), and to stress 

 certain Christian religious first names (such as 

 Jose, Jesiis, Rafael, Salvador, Manuel, Trinidad, 

 etc.). This trend probably was brought about by 

 the Franciscan missionaries working among a 

 people with no European traditions. Also, the 

 Franciscans were the leading protagonists for festi- 

 vals and cults commemorating the Holy Name 

 of Jesus, St. Joseph, and the Blessed Trinity. 

 Another factor involved was the fact that among 

 the Spanish immigrants there were relatively few 

 farmers, fishermen, carpenters, bakers, and mem- 

 bers of other such lowly occupations, since these 

 occupations were held in New Spain chiefly by the 

 Indians and by the mestizos. Consequently, it 

 was chiefly in these two groups that baptismal 

 names derived from the patron saints of these 

 occupations (Isidro, Andres, Jose, Nicolas, et al.) 

 were common. 



Another list was compiled of the baptismal 

 names recorded in the civil register during the 

 years 1941-44. There were 402 names of male 

 infants. It was thought that a comparison of this 

 list with that of 1940 would indicate if the present 

 comparative liberalism and anticlericalism had 

 extended to Christian names. The leading 22 

 names, in order, were Jose, Rafael, Antonio, 

 Luis, Salvador, Jesus, Diego, Ram6n, Manuel, 

 Leopoldo, Francisco, Isidro, Guadalupe, Pedro, 

 Miguel, Ruben, Juan, Nicolas, Carlos, Raul, 

 Roberto, and Carmen. This order, and the per- 

 centages involved, showed no important changes 

 or trends, unless it might be a slight lessening in 

 the use of Jesiis, Diego, and Francisco. The bap- 

 tismal names of 226 fathers of children born in 

 1945 were, in order, Jesiis, Salvador, Jose, Diego, 

 Manuel, Rafael, Pech-o, Antonio, Luis, Leopoldo, 

 Juan, Alfredo, Agustin, Felipe, etc., in descending 



