Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1920

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1920 were Mary for girls (452 babies) and John for boys (395). Social Security records list 10,681 babies born in Rhode Island in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1920

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: 15 babies, 18.2× the national rate
Hope: 19 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Cecile: 21 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Carmella: 18 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Claire: 35 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Rita: 149 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Madeline: 48 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Jeannette: 27 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Angelina: 24 babies, 5× the national rate
Teresa: 16 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 23 babies, 56.8× the national rate
Domenic: 20 babies, 36.2× the national rate
Rene: 16 babies, 23.8× the national rate
Antonio: 35 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Gerard: 20 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Armand: 16 babies, 10.3× the national rate
Roland: 40 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Manuel: 35 babies, 5× the national rate
Wilfred: 17 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Angelo: 19 babies, 4.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	452	–	1
2	Dorothy	206	↑1	2
3	Helen	180	↓1	3
4	Margaret	151	↑1	4
5	Rita	149	↓1	52
6	Anna	141	–	10
7	Ruth	129	↑1	5
8	Alice	123	↓1	15
9	Doris	105	↑1	14
10	Elizabeth	102	↑1	8
11	Marie	101	↑16	13
12	Rose	96	↓3	20
13	Barbara	93	↑6	47
14	Irene	90	↓2	17
15	Virginia	90	↑7	7
16	Evelyn	89	↓2	12
17	Florence	86	↓4	16
18	Frances	84	↓1	9
19	Josephine	76	↓4	28
20	Mildred	76	–	6
21	Lillian	65	↓5	18
22	Catherine	64	↓1	21
23	Eleanor	64	↑1	25
24	Gertrude	59	↑5	42
25	Louise	57	↓7	19
26	Beatrice	54	↓3	41
27	Edith	51	↓2	32
28	Marion	49	↓2	43
29	Madeline	48	↑7	>100
30	Jennie	47	–	97
31	Eileen	43	new	100
32	Grace	41	↓1	37
33	Edna	38	↑9	27
34	Theresa	38	↓6	>100
35	Anita	37	new	>100
36	Agnes	35	↑9	54
37	Claire	35	↓3	>100
38	Eva	34	new	58
39	Gladys	34	↓7	22
40	Blanche	33	new	>100
41	Esther	33	↓6	39
42	Julia	33	new	55
43	Lucille	33	↓2	29
44	Marjorie	33	new	24
45	Anne	32	↓6	65
46	Elsie	32	↓9	51
47	Katherine	30	new	45
48	Lena	30	↓1	98
49	Emma	29	new	46
50	Ethel	29	↓4	30

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	John	395	–	1
2	Joseph	330	–	7
3	William	258	–	2
4	James	191	↑2	4
5	Edward	173	–	8
6	George	170	↓2	6
7	Robert	165	↑1	3
8	Raymond	162	↓1	15
9	Charles	138	↑1	5
10	Frank	127	↓1	9
11	Albert	115	↑1	19
12	Arthur	108	↓1	18
13	Henry	104	↑2	17
14	Thomas	104	–	11
15	Anthony	90	↓2	43
16	Ernest	78	↑14	37
17	Walter	78	↓1	13
18	Alfred	72	↑1	42
19	Louis	69	↓1	28
20	Richard	69	↑8	10
21	Harold	63	↑4	12
22	Michael	62	↑4	50
23	Francis	59	↓6	34
24	Ralph	53	↑7	22
25	Leo	48	↓5	48
26	Paul	47	↓3	14
27	Peter	47	↓6	57
28	Vincent	46	↑1	73
29	Norman	45	↓2	47
30	Frederick	44	↑6	60
31	Herbert	41	new	41
32	Roland	40	↓8	>100
33	Antonio	35	↑1	>100
34	Manuel	35	↓12	>100
35	Howard	34	↑9	24
36	Donald	33	↓4	16
37	Kenneth	32	↑5	23
38	Stanley	31	↓3	40
39	Eugene	30	↓2	30
40	Leonard	30	new	38
41	Russell	28	↓8	51
42	Theodore	28	new	63
43	Lawrence	27	↑5	36
44	Daniel	26	new	52
45	Earl	26	new	31
46	Harry	26	↓8	21
47	Bernard	25	new	46
48	Carl	25	new	27
49	Everett	24	new	95
50	Irving	24	new	>100

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