Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1915

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1915 were Mary for girls (415 babies) and John for boys (326). Social Security records list 8,336 babies born in Rhode Island in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1915

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

Antonetta: 17 babies, 61.6× the national rate
Hope: 20 babies, 20.7× the national rate
Cecile: 23 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Yvonne: 16 babies, 9.2× the national rate
Angelina: 30 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Annette: 18 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 24 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Rita: 70 babies, 5× the national rate
Angela: 16 babies, 5× the national rate
Celia: 19 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Boys

Antonio: 32 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Manuel: 33 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Salvatore: 22 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Roland: 30 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Vincent: 38 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Nicholas: 22 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Alfred: 58 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Anthony: 64 babies, 3× the national rate
Frederick: 42 babies, 3× the national rate
Joseph: 292 babies, 2.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	415	–	1
2	Helen	161	–	2
3	Dorothy	138	↑1	3
4	Anna	137	↑1	7
5	Alice	109	↑1	13
6	Margaret	107	↓3	4
7	Ruth	106	↑1	5
8	Lillian	88	↑1	15
9	Doris	87	↑1	34
10	Florence	85	↑2	14
11	Elizabeth	84	↑2	8
12	Rose	83	↓5	16
13	Evelyn	70	↓2	10
14	Rita	70	–	71
15	Mildred	68	↑1	6
16	Irene	62	↑5	17
17	Eleanor	60	↑11	28
18	Frances	60	↓3	9
19	Beatrice	57	↓1	37
20	Marion	57	↑2	50
21	Catherine	55	↓2	19
22	Josephine	55	↑4	22
23	Marie	55	↓3	11
24	Gertrude	49	–	35
25	Jennie	44	↑16	73
26	Edith	43	↓9	31
27	Grace	42	↓4	27
28	Virginia	40	↑8	12
29	Louise	39	↓4	18
30	Gladys	36	↓1	21
31	Lucy	36	↑16	79
32	Bertha	35	↑3	46
33	Esther	33	↓1	33
34	Lena	33	new	77
35	Theresa	33	↓4	93
36	Ethel	32	↓6	23
37	Ida	32	↑12	54
38	Elsie	31	↓5	41
39	Angelina	30	↑7	>100
40	Barbara	29	↓2	83
41	Agnes	28	↑4	45
42	Clara	28	↓3	38
43	Eva	28	↓3	55
44	Hazel	27	↑4	26
45	Maria	26	new	>100
46	Anne	25	↓9	52
47	Blanche	25	new	87
48	Julia	25	↓14	44
49	Jeannette	24	new	>100
50	Viola	24	new	59

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	John	326	–	1
2	Joseph	292	–	5
3	William	182	–	2
4	Edward	144	↑4	8
5	James	137	↓1	3
6	George	130	↓1	6
7	Frank	115	↓1	9
8	Charles	106	↓1	7
9	Raymond	88	↑3	16
10	Robert	84	↑1	4
11	Albert	82	↓1	17
12	Thomas	82	↑1	10
13	Arthur	81	↑1	18
14	Walter	69	↓5	11
15	Henry	66	↑1	14
16	Anthony	64	↑2	36
17	Louis	61	↓2	23
18	Alfred	58	↓1	42
19	Ernest	55	↑1	35
20	Francis	53	↓1	29
21	Michael	51	–	43
22	Richard	45	↑6	15
23	Frederick	42	↑4	52
24	Leo	40	↑1	47
25	Harold	39	↓3	12
26	Vincent	38	↓2	65
27	Paul	36	↓4	13
28	Manuel	33	↑15	>100
29	Stanley	33	↑3	34
30	Antonio	32	↑12	>100
31	Eugene	32	↑8	41
32	Donald	31	↑6	20
33	Ralph	30	↓7	21
34	Roland	30	↑16	>100
35	David	29	↓4	31
36	Herbert	29	new	40
37	Norman	28	↓7	50
38	Peter	28	↓9	49
39	Daniel	25	new	55
40	Harry	25	↓6	19
41	Russell	25	↑4	51
42	Stephen	23	new	86
43	Kenneth	22	new	28
44	Nicholas	22	↑4	>100
45	Salvatore	22	new	>100
46	Edwin	20	new	53
47	Fred	20	new	26
48	Howard	20	↓12	25
49	Samuel	20	↓12	39
50	Lawrence	19	↓9	37

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