Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1919

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1919 were Mary for girls (410 babies) and John for boys (345). Social Security records list 9,795 babies born in Rhode Island in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1919

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: 20 babies, 86.6× the national rate
Filomena: 16 babies, 20.3× the national rate
Hope: 17 babies, 11.1× the national rate
Concetta: 15 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Angelina: 36 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Claire: 36 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Cecile: 18 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Rita: 160 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Jeannette: 30 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Theresa: 50 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Pasco: 18 babies, 175.2× the national rate
Domenic: 20 babies, 36.9× the national rate
Armando: 24 babies, 28.1× the national rate
Armand: 30 babies, 24.7× the national rate
Antonio: 36 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Lionel: 15 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Manuel: 49 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Angelo: 29 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Roland: 44 babies, 7× the national rate
Salvatore: 22 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	410	–	1
2	Helen	186	–	2
3	Dorothy	183	–	3
4	Rita	160	–	54
5	Margaret	137	–	4
6	Anna	127	↑1	10
7	Alice	118	↑1	13
8	Ruth	117	↑2	5
9	Rose	116	↓3	19
10	Doris	94	↓1	18
11	Elizabeth	94	↑1	8
12	Irene	91	↑1	16
13	Florence	84	↓2	14
14	Evelyn	83	↑9	11
15	Josephine	80	↑7	26
16	Lillian	78	–	17
17	Frances	69	↓3	9
18	Louise	67	↑7	20
19	Barbara	65	↑2	60
20	Mildred	64	↓2	6
21	Catherine	62	↓2	23
22	Virginia	56	↓7	7
23	Beatrice	55	↑1	41
24	Eleanor	53	↓4	30
25	Edith	52	↑3	29
26	Marion	52	↑3	44
27	Marie	51	↓10	12
28	Theresa	50	↑6	>100
29	Gertrude	49	↓2	39
30	Jennie	47	↓4	93
31	Grace	43	↑4	34
32	Gladys	37	new	21
33	Angelina	36	↑6	>100
34	Claire	36	↓3	>100
35	Esther	36	↓5	38
36	Madeline	35	↑4	>100
37	Elsie	34	↑13	47
38	Lucy	32	↓1	91
39	Anne	31	new	63
40	Bertha	31	↑7	52
41	Lucille	31	new	27
42	Edna	30	↑3	22
43	Emily	30	new	>100
44	Jeannette	30	↓6	>100
45	Agnes	28	↓13	50
46	Ethel	28	↓10	28
47	Lena	28	new	94
48	Ann	27	new	49
49	Ida	27	↓3	57
50	Marguerite	27	↓6	96

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	John	345	–	1
2	Joseph	293	–	7
3	William	202	–	2
4	George	152	↑1	6
5	Edward	147	↑1	8
6	James	146	↓2	3
7	Raymond	145	–	14
8	Robert	141	–	4
9	Frank	120	–	9
10	Charles	117	–	5
11	Arthur	104	↑3	19
12	Albert	100	–	18
13	Anthony	93	–	41
14	Thomas	91	↓3	10
15	Henry	81	↑1	16
16	Walter	78	↑3	11
17	Francis	73	↓2	34
18	Louis	71	↓1	28
19	Alfred	68	↓1	42
20	Leo	57	↑3	49
21	Peter	52	↑12	57
22	Manuel	49	↓1	>100
23	Paul	47	↑2	15
24	Roland	44	↑8	>100
25	Harold	43	↓5	13
26	Michael	42	↑5	46
27	Norman	41	↑8	48
28	Richard	41	↑1	12
29	Vincent	41	↓2	72
30	Ernest	40	↓8	36
31	Ralph	39	↓7	22
32	Donald	37	↓4	17
33	Russell	37	↑10	50
34	Antonio	36	–	>100
35	Stanley	34	↓5	37
36	Frederick	33	↓10	64
37	Eugene	32	new	33
38	Harry	32	↓2	20
39	Armand	30	↑10	>100
40	David	30	↑1	27
41	Angelo	29	↓2	>100
42	Kenneth	28	↑2	26
43	Fred	26	↑4	30
44	Howard	26	↑1	24
45	Samuel	25	↑3	43
46	Andrew	24	new	47
47	Armando	24	new	>100
48	Lawrence	24	new	38
49	Stephen	24	new	97
50	Edmund	23	new	>100

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