Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1917

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1917 were Mary for girls (442 babies) and John for boys (353). Social Security records list 9,559 babies born in Rhode Island in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1917

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

Cecile: 18 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Rita: 137 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Angelina: 24 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Jeannette: 24 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Celia: 17 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Barbara: 62 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Maria: 24 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Madeline: 27 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Jennie: 47 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Amelia: 18 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Boys

Armand: 28 babies, 22.1× the national rate
Antonio: 31 babies, 11.3× the national rate
Gerard: 20 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Manuel: 45 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Angelo: 19 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Nicholas: 29 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Alfred: 83 babies, 4× the national rate
Roland: 24 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Anthony: 83 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Edmund: 16 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	442	–	1
2	Helen	186	–	2
3	Dorothy	160	–	3
4	Rita	137	↑5	63
5	Anna	134	↓1	7
6	Margaret	131	↓1	4
7	Alice	122	↑1	13
8	Ruth	115	↓2	5
9	Rose	110	↓2	16
10	Lillian	93	↑1	15
11	Elizabeth	89	↑1	8
12	Doris	82	↓2	25
13	Irene	82	↑7	17
14	Josephine	79	↑2	21
15	Mildred	74	↑2	6
16	Evelyn	72	↓3	11
17	Florence	71	↓3	14
18	Frances	67	↓3	9
19	Virginia	67	↑5	10
20	Barbara	62	↑7	67
21	Edith	61	↑8	28
22	Louise	61	↓1	19
23	Beatrice	60	↓1	39
24	Marie	59	↓5	12
25	Catherine	57	↑7	18
26	Marion	53	↓1	45
27	Grace	51	↑1	30
28	Jennie	47	↓2	81
29	Eleanor	45	↓11	26
30	Gertrude	41	↓7	37
31	Marjorie	41	new	36
32	Ann	37	↑16	44
33	Theresa	37	↓2	97
34	Esther	36	new	38
35	Gladys	36	↓1	23
36	Bertha	35	↑7	51
37	Julia	35	↑12	47
38	Lena	35	new	85
39	Edna	33	↓9	20
40	Viola	33	↑1	59
41	Emily	30	new	>100
42	Ethel	30	↑2	24
43	Anne	29	↓1	53
44	Stella	29	new	62
45	Ida	28	↓6	56
46	Agnes	27	↓11	48
47	Genevieve	27	new	77
48	Madeline	27	new	>100
49	Marguerite	27	new	78
50	Elsie	26	↓13	50

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	John	353	–	1
2	Joseph	320	–	5
3	William	238	–	2
4	Edward	152	↑1	8
5	James	147	↓1	3
6	George	144	↑1	6
7	Robert	123	↑5	4
8	Charles	122	–	7
9	Raymond	115	↑1	16
10	Frank	108	↓4	9
11	Albert	103	↓2	18
12	Thomas	99	↑2	10
13	Arthur	84	–	17
14	Alfred	83	↑4	43
15	Anthony	83	↓4	38
16	Henry	78	↑1	15
17	Francis	76	↑13	30
18	Walter	74	↓3	11
19	Louis	65	↓3	23
20	Paul	55	↑11	13
21	Leo	53	↑2	47
22	Richard	53	–	14
23	Manuel	45	↑11	>100
24	Michael	44	↓3	44
25	Stanley	44	↑3	34
26	Frederick	42	–	51
27	Norman	40	–	46
28	Eugene	38	↑4	39
29	Ralph	38	↑6	21
30	Peter	37	↓6	50
31	Ernest	36	↓11	37
32	Harold	36	↓13	12
33	Donald	33	–	20
34	Vincent	33	↓9	65
35	Antonio	31	↓6	>100
36	Russell	31	–	52
37	Nicholas	29	new	>100
38	Armand	28	new	>100
39	David	28	↓2	28
40	Herbert	28	↓2	40
41	Samuel	28	↑7	42
42	Bernard	25	new	49
43	Stephen	25	new	89
44	Harry	24	↑2	19
45	Lawrence	24	new	36
46	Milton	24	↑1	75
47	Roland	24	↓4	>100
48	Leonard	22	new	41
49	Earl	21	↓10	32
50	Fred	20	↓8	29

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