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the name, that name was found only in the simple 

 form. A second number indicates the number of 

 cases in which that name appears in combination 

 with some other name, most commonly with 

 Maria, and in a few instances with Ana, Jesus, 

 and Luz. 



Female baptismal names 



1. Maria 



2. Guadalupe- - 



3. Carmen 



4. Teresa 



5. Juana 



6. Salud 



7. Consuelo 



8. Esperanza 



9. Ma. Jesus. -- 



10. Jesus 



11. Ester 



12. Josefina 



13. Sara 



14. Concepcidn. 



15. Antonia 



16. Josefa 



17. Margarita... 



18. Luisa 



19. Dolores 



20. Francisca 



21. Soledad 



22. Isabel 



23. Socorro 



24. Diega 



25. Ma. Carmen. 



26. Angela 



27. Petra 



28. Catalina 



29. Amalia 



30. Elena 



31. Luz 



32. Trinidad 



33. Aurora 



34. Ma. Concep- 



ci6n 



35. Ma. Salud.. 



36. Ma. Guada- 



lupe 



37. Rafaela 



38. Beatriz 



39. Emilia 



40. Elvira 



41. Herminia 



42. Magdalena.- 



43. Lorenza 



44. Ma. Luisa. _ 



45. Ma. Trini- 



dad 



46. Ofelia 



47. Raquel 



48. Agustina 



127 + 187 

 73-t-14 

 53+18 

 53 + 2 

 50 



48 + 15 

 42 + 1 

 37 

 36 



35 + 38 

 27+1 

 27 

 25 



24+15 

 23 

 23 



22 + 1 

 22+11 

 21 + 7 

 21 + 2 

 21+4 

 19 + 6 

 19 + 7 

 18 + 2 

 18 

 17 

 17 

 17 

 16 

 16 



16 + 1 

 16+11 

 15 



15 

 15 



14 

 14 

 13 

 13 

 13 

 13 

 13 

 12 

 11 



11 

 11 

 11 

 10 



49. Ana 



50. Aurelia 



51. Ignacia 



52. Julia 



53. Leonor 



54. Melania 



55. Anita 



56. Carlota 



57. Mercedes 



58. Paula 



59. Rosario 



60. Tr;insito 



61. Virginia 



62. Clotilde 



63. Gracia 



64. Ramona 



65. Refugio 



66. Rosa 



67. Zenaida 



68. Amparo 



69. Angelina 



70. Celia 



71. Irene 



72. Librada 



73. Ma. Dolores. 



74. Natividad... 



75. Susana 



76. Victoria 



77. Delfina 



78. Eulalia 



79. Genoveva 



80. Jo vita 



81. Lucia 



82. Ma. Isabel.. 



83. Ma. Socorro. 



84. Marcelina 



85. Nicolasa 



86. Tomasa 



87. Abigail 



88. Adelaida 



89. Elisa 



90. Enedina 



91. Gregoria 



92. Herlinda 



93. Matilde 



94. Micaela 



95. Modesta 



96. Natalia 



97. Rita 



98. Sabina 



10 + 1 



10 



10+1 



10 



10 



10 



9 



9 



9 + 4 



9 



9 + 2 



9 ■ 



9 



8 



8 + 1 



8 



8 + 1 



8 + 1 



8 



7 



7 



7 



7 



7 



7 



7 



7 



7 



6 



6 



6 



6 



6 



6 



6 



6 



6 



6 



5 



5 



5 



5 



5 



5 



5 



5 



5 



5 



5 



5 



The incidence of the remaining names was: 21 

 names, 4 persons; 19 names, 3 persons; 62 names, 

 2 persons; and 125 names, one individual. Maria, 

 in all listed combinations, comprised about 16 

 percent of the female population. The first 12 

 names (including Ma. Jesiis, but no other com- 

 binations with Alaria) covered somewhat more 

 than 31 percent of the females; the first 21 names 

 comprised a little more than 41 percent; and the 

 top 32 names comprised appro.ximately one-half 

 of the females. It will be noted that, although the 

 male and female populations are comparable, and 

 though there are a few more male names than 

 female, there is a greater dispersal of females in 

 the names having an incidence between 5 and 10 

 persons. 



COMPARISONS 



Comparisons with sixteenth-century female bap- 

 tismal names are not reliable, since we obtained 

 only 32 names covering 231 women from the 

 Catalogo de Pobladores de Nueva Espana. 

 (O 'Gorman, 1945). The leading names were 

 Maria, Isabel, Francisca, and Ana, which com- 

 prised more than half of the women mentioned. 

 Other names, in order, were Catalina, Juana, 

 Leonor, and Beatriz, which, with the first 4, 

 comprised more than three-quarters of the women 

 listed. From this scanty material it seems that 

 only Maria and Juana have maintained their 

 ancient rank, although all eight sbcteenth-century 

 names are represented among the first 50 in 

 Quiroga as of 1940. The outstanding develop- 

 ment is the addition of the strictly religious 

 Christian name of the type exemplified by Guada- 

 lupe, Carmen, Salud, Consuelo, Jesiis, and the like. 

 This accords with the trend determined for male 

 names. 



Other comparisons are afforded by the study of 

 the 323 girls born during the period 1941-44, and 

 the names of the 226 women who were mothers in 

 1945. In the following tabulation we present the 

 leading names for all females in 1940, females 

 born 1941-44, and mothers in 1945: 



