Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1912

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1912 were Mary for girls (266 babies) and John for boys (172). Social Security records list 4,389 babies born in Rhode Island in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1912

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

Girls

Loretta: 19 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Doris: 39 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Jennie: 22 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Emily: 15 babies, 3× the national rate
Theresa: 16 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Marion: 29 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Marguerite: 18 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Alice: 65 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Rose: 57 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Lillian: 51 babies, 2.1× the national rate

Boys

Antonio: 15 babies, 12.4× the national rate
Anthony: 45 babies, 4× the national rate
Leo: 25 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Vincent: 17 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Francis: 30 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Albert: 53 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Ernest: 30 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Frederick: 18 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Milton: 15 babies, 2.5× the national rate
Raymond: 48 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	266	–	1
2	Helen	111	–	2
3	Dorothy	88	↑2	3
4	Margaret	78	–	4
5	Anna	72	↓2	7
6	Alice	65	↑1	11
7	Rose	57	↑1	15
8	Ruth	53	↓2	5
9	Lillian	51	↑3	14
10	Florence	50	↓1	12
11	Mildred	47	↑11	6
12	Elizabeth	44	↓2	8
13	Catherine	40	↑1	21
14	Doris	39	↑3	48
15	Frances	36	↑11	9
16	Gertrude	34	↑2	30
17	Irene	33	↓6	22
18	Marie	30	↑6	10
19	Emma	29	↑14	35
20	Evelyn	29	↓7	13
21	Josephine	29	↓2	28
22	Marion	29	↑6	55
23	Beatrice	28	↑2	37
24	Edith	28	↓4	31
25	Esther	28	↑9	33
26	Grace	27	↑5	24
27	Eleanor	26	↑3	39
28	Louise	26	↓12	17
29	Edna	25	↓8	16
30	Eva	22	↑11	49
31	Jennie	22	↑6	81
32	Agnes	21	↑16	40
33	Hazel	21	↑2	25
34	Loretta	19	↑9	>100
35	Virginia	19	↓12	20
36	Marguerite	18	↑10	79
37	Bertha	17	↓5	36
38	Elsie	16	new	42
39	Theresa	16	new	97
40	Viola	16	new	52
41	Ann	15	↓12	47
42	Anne	15	new	58
43	Blanche	15	↑6	75
44	Emily	15	new	>100
45	Jean	15	new	64
46	Martha	15	new	29
47	Barbara	14	new	>100
48	Gladys	14	↓33	19
49	Jeannette	14	↓22	>100
50	Katherine	14	new	53

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	John	172	–	1
2	Joseph	123	–	5
3	William	117	–	2
4	Edward	80	↑2	8
5	James	75	–	3
6	Charles	69	↑2	7
7	George	68	↓3	6
8	Thomas	55	↑1	10
9	Albert	53	↑3	17
10	Robert	52	↑1	4
11	Raymond	48	↓1	18
12	Anthony	45	↑1	37
13	Frank	45	↓6	9
14	Arthur	40	↑1	15
15	Harold	35	↑8	13
16	Walter	35	↑8	11
17	Louis	33	↑1	20
18	Henry	32	↓4	12
19	Ernest	30	↑3	32
20	Francis	30	↓1	35
21	Leo	25	↓4	49
22	Ralph	24	new	23
23	Michael	23	↑4	42
24	Alfred	19	↓3	40
25	Frederick	18	–	51
26	Harry	18	↓10	16
27	Paul	17	↑5	14
28	Vincent	17	↑8	72
29	Antonio	15	↑8	>100
30	Fred	15	↑3	26
31	Milton	15	↑13	64
32	Norman	14	new	61
33	Peter	14	↓13	48
34	Richard	14	↑6	19
35	Everett	13	new	96
36	Howard	13	new	25
37	Samuel	13	↓2	30
38	Philip	12	↑1	69
39	Angelo	11	new	>100
40	Daniel	11	↑8	53
41	Eugene	11	↓11	41
42	Kenneth	11	new	33
43	Manuel	11	↓17	>100
44	Nicholas	11	new	>100
45	Russell	11	↓11	56
46	Salvatore	11	new	>100
47	Stanley	11	new	43
48	Theodore	11	↓3	52
49	Edmund	10	new	>100
50	Herbert	10	↓19	39

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