Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1916

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1916 were Mary for girls (414 babies) and John for boys (313). Social Security records list 9,057 babies born in Rhode Island in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1916

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

Filomena: 16 babies, 21.8× the national rate
Hope: 16 babies, 12.9× the national rate
Cecile: 19 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Angelina: 36 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Jeannette: 33 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Claire: 25 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Rita: 101 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Anita: 29 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Angela: 15 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Theresa: 41 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Domenic: 15 babies, 28.5× the national rate
Antonio: 37 babies, 14.5× the national rate
Armand: 16 babies, 14.4× the national rate
Manuel: 29 babies, 6× the national rate
Angelo: 22 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Wilfred: 15 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Anthony: 95 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Edmund: 20 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Vincent: 46 babies, 4× the national rate
Roland: 22 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	414	–	1
2	Helen	193	–	2
3	Dorothy	173	–	3
4	Anna	154	–	7
5	Margaret	121	↑1	4
6	Ruth	120	↑1	5
7	Rose	109	↑5	15
8	Alice	107	↓3	13
9	Rita	101	↑5	67
10	Doris	98	↓1	32
11	Lillian	90	↓3	16
12	Elizabeth	84	↓1	8
13	Evelyn	78	–	11
14	Florence	77	↓4	14
15	Frances	72	↑3	9
16	Josephine	72	↑6	21
17	Mildred	69	↓2	6
18	Eleanor	68	↓1	27
19	Marie	63	↑4	12
20	Irene	62	↓4	17
21	Louise	60	↑8	18
22	Beatrice	51	↓3	38
23	Gertrude	51	↑1	35
24	Virginia	51	↑4	10
25	Marion	49	↓5	47
26	Jennie	48	↓1	79
27	Barbara	46	↑13	74
28	Grace	45	↓1	26
29	Edith	42	↓3	28
30	Edna	42	new	19
31	Theresa	41	↑4	98
32	Catherine	39	↓11	20
33	Eva	37	↑10	55
34	Gladys	37	↓4	22
35	Agnes	36	↑6	50
36	Angelina	36	↑3	>100
37	Elsie	34	↑1	48
38	Hazel	33	↑6	31
39	Ida	33	↓2	54
40	Jeannette	33	↑9	>100
41	Viola	32	↑9	59
42	Anne	31	↑4	53
43	Bertha	30	↓11	49
44	Ethel	30	↓8	25
45	Anita	29	new	>100
46	Lucy	28	↓15	84
47	Sophie	28	new	>100
48	Ann	26	new	40
49	Julia	26	↓1	46
50	Muriel	26	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	313	–	1
2	Joseph	304	–	5
3	William	191	–	2
4	James	130	↑1	3
5	Edward	128	↓1	8
6	Frank	127	↑1	9
7	George	127	↓1	7
8	Charles	120	–	6
9	Albert	116	↑2	17
10	Raymond	107	↓1	16
11	Anthony	95	↑5	37
12	Robert	92	↓2	4
13	Arthur	91	–	18
14	Thomas	86	↓2	10
15	Walter	80	↓1	11
16	Louis	76	↑1	22
17	Henry	74	↓2	14
18	Alfred	67	–	43
19	Harold	53	↑6	13
20	Ernest	51	↓1	36
21	Michael	50	–	44
22	Richard	49	–	15
23	Leo	48	↑1	47
24	Peter	47	↑14	50
25	Vincent	46	↑1	67
26	Frederick	44	↓3	52
27	Norman	42	↑10	48
28	Stanley	39	↑1	34
29	Antonio	37	↑1	>100
30	Francis	37	↓10	31
31	Paul	32	↓4	12
32	Eugene	30	↓1	39
33	Donald	29	↓1	20
34	Manuel	29	↓6	>100
35	Ralph	27	↓2	21
36	Russell	27	↑5	51
37	David	26	↓2	28
38	Herbert	25	↓2	40
39	Earl	23	new	32
40	Howard	23	↑8	25
41	Angelo	22	new	>100
42	Fred	22	↑5	29
43	Roland	22	↓9	>100
44	Andrew	21	new	46
45	Everett	21	new	91
46	Harry	21	↓6	19
47	Milton	21	new	72
48	Samuel	21	↑1	41
49	Carl	20	new	23
50	Edmund	20	new	>100

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