Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1914

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1914 were Mary for girls (350 babies) and John for boys (284). Social Security records list 7,275 babies born in Rhode Island in 1914 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1914

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

Angelina: 20 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Rita: 57 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Jeannette: 16 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Amelia: 21 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Anita: 15 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Theresa: 32 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Madeline: 24 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Doris: 72 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Maria: 18 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Olive: 17 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Boys

Domenic: 15 babies, 36.4× the national rate
Armand: 23 babies, 21.2× the national rate
Pasquale: 18 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Antonio: 19 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Angelo: 24 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Manuel: 18 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Vincent: 35 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Roland: 16 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Alfred: 52 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Joseph: 280 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1914

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	Mary	350	–	1
2	Helen	133	–	2
3	Margaret	124	–	4
4	Dorothy	123	↑1	3
5	Anna	110	↓1	6
6	Alice	106	↑6	12
7	Rose	97	↑1	15
8	Ruth	88	↑1	5
9	Lillian	76	↓2	16
10	Doris	72	↑6	36
11	Evelyn	68	↑4	11
12	Florence	66	↓2	13
13	Elizabeth	59	↓7	8
14	Rita	57	new	87
15	Frances	55	↑10	9
16	Mildred	55	↓2	7
17	Edith	53	↑22	31
18	Beatrice	52	↑5	38
19	Catherine	52	↓8	18
20	Marie	48	↓7	10
21	Irene	47	↓3	22
22	Marion	46	–	50
23	Grace	44	↑8	25
24	Gertrude	42	↓7	32
25	Louise	42	↑11	17
26	Josephine	40	↓6	23
27	Edna	36	↓3	19
28	Eleanor	35	↓9	28
29	Gladys	33	↓8	20
30	Ethel	32	↓3	21
31	Theresa	32	new	93
32	Esther	31	↑8	35
33	Elsie	30	↓3	46
34	Julia	30	↓2	42
35	Bertha	29	↑3	41
36	Virginia	29	↓8	14
37	Anne	28	↑10	53
38	Barbara	28	↓5	82
39	Clara	28	↑2	37
40	Eva	27	↓14	52
41	Jennie	25	↓6	77
42	Madeline	24	new	>100
43	Amelia	21	new	>100
44	Stella	21	new	65
45	Agnes	20	↓1	44
46	Angelina	20	↓1	>100
47	Lucy	20	new	73
48	Hazel	19	new	29
49	Ida	19	↓7	49
50	Katherine	18	new	48

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1913	US rank
1	John	284	–	1
2	Joseph	280	–	5
3	William	170	–	2
4	James	141	–	3
5	George	125	–	6
6	Frank	118	↑1	9
7	Charles	105	↑2	7
8	Edward	104	↓2	8
9	Walter	85	↑4	10
10	Albert	84	↓2	15
11	Robert	82	↑4	4
12	Raymond	80	↑6	16
13	Thomas	77	↓3	11
14	Arthur	76	↓3	18
15	Louis	56	↑4	20
16	Henry	54	↓4	12
17	Alfred	52	–	41
18	Anthony	52	↓4	37
19	Francis	49	↓3	31
20	Ernest	48	↑3	38
21	Michael	48	–	40
22	Harold	38	↓2	14
23	Paul	38	↑7	13
24	Vincent	35	↓2	61
25	Leo	34	↑4	47
26	Ralph	32	↓2	21
27	Frederick	29	↓1	52
28	Richard	28	↑3	17
29	Peter	27	↓2	48
30	Norman	26	↑20	54
31	David	25	↑16	29
32	Stanley	25	↓7	39
33	Angelo	24	↑7	>100
34	Harry	24	↓6	19
35	Armand	23	new	>100
36	Howard	23	–	26
37	Samuel	23	↑9	36
38	Donald	22	new	23
39	Eugene	22	↓2	43
40	Carl	20	new	24
41	Lawrence	20	new	35
42	Antonio	19	↓8	>100
43	Manuel	18	↓11	>100
44	Pasquale	18	new	>100
45	Russell	18	new	49
46	Theodore	18	new	64
47	Irving	17	new	100
48	Nicholas	17	↑1	>100
49	Maurice	16	new	94
50	Roland	16	↓17	>100

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