Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1921

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1921 were Mary for girls (485 babies) and John for boys (387). Social Security records list 11,152 babies born in Rhode Island in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1921

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: 18 babies, 68.9× the national rate
Filomena: 15 babies, 17.7× the national rate
Hope: 20 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Cecile: 26 babies, 11.7× the national rate
Concetta: 19 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Angelina: 38 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Claire: 35 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Rita: 136 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Yvonne: 17 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Jeannette: 24 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 17 babies, 40.8× the national rate
Domenic: 16 babies, 23× the national rate
Lucien: 15 babies, 21.7× the national rate
Armando: 17 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Armand: 16 babies, 11× the national rate
Lionel: 17 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Antonio: 35 babies, 9.6× the national rate
Gerard: 20 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Mario: 16 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Angelo: 33 babies, 6.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	485	–	1
2	Dorothy	218	–	2
3	Helen	203	–	3
4	Margaret	146	–	4
5	Anna	140	↑1	11
6	Alice	137	↑2	15
7	Rita	136	↓2	48
8	Ruth	123	↓1	5
9	Doris	122	–	13
10	Rose	118	↑2	20
11	Florence	99	↑6	17
12	Virginia	98	↑3	6
13	Irene	96	↑1	18
14	Barbara	89	↓1	40
15	Evelyn	89	↑1	12
16	Marie	87	↓5	14
17	Elizabeth	82	↓7	10
18	Lillian	79	↑3	19
19	Beatrice	68	↑7	41
20	Eleanor	64	↑3	29
21	Louise	62	↑4	22
22	Mildred	62	↓2	7
23	Frances	61	↓5	9
24	Marjorie	55	↑20	16
25	Catherine	54	↓3	23
26	Gertrude	53	↓2	46
27	Josephine	50	↓8	28
28	Edith	48	↓1	33
29	Gladys	47	↑10	24
30	Marion	43	↓2	43
31	Theresa	43	↑3	>100
32	Ethel	41	↑18	32
33	Agnes	40	↑3	56
34	Anita	39	↑1	>100
35	Ida	39	new	67
36	Angelina	38	new	>100
37	Gloria	38	new	>100
38	Lucy	37	new	93
39	Bertha	36	new	59
40	Claire	35	↓3	>100
41	Grace	34	↓9	35
42	Marguerite	33	new	98
43	Ann	32	new	53
44	Clara	31	new	45
45	Constance	31	new	>100
46	Edna	31	↓13	27
47	Esther	31	↓6	42
48	Shirley	31	new	44
49	Muriel	30	new	>100
50	Lucille	28	↓7	31

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	John	387	–	1
2	Joseph	346	–	7
3	William	269	–	3
4	James	189	–	4
5	George	187	↑1	6
6	Robert	182	↑1	2
7	Edward	175	↓2	8
8	Raymond	166	–	16
9	Frank	144	↑1	9
10	Charles	135	↓1	5
11	Arthur	114	↑1	19
12	Albert	113	↓1	20
13	Anthony	110	↑2	40
14	Thomas	110	–	11
15	Henry	108	↓2	17
16	Walter	96	↑1	15
17	Francis	91	↑6	35
18	Louis	79	↑1	29
19	Vincent	63	↑9	70
20	Alfred	61	↓2	43
21	Richard	60	↓1	10
22	Leo	59	↑3	50
23	Michael	59	↓1	47
24	Norman	58	↑5	46
25	Harold	57	↓4	12
26	Ernest	56	↓10	38
27	Peter	56	–	57
28	Paul	50	↓2	14
29	Ralph	50	↓5	23
30	Manuel	48	↑4	>100
31	Kenneth	45	↑6	22
32	Donald	41	↑4	13
33	Roland	40	↓1	>100
34	Lawrence	38	↑9	37
35	Frederick	37	↓5	61
36	Earl	36	↑9	31
37	Antonio	35	↓4	>100
38	Stanley	35	–	41
39	David	34	new	25
40	Eugene	34	↓1	26
41	Angelo	33	new	>100
42	Russell	32	↓1	52
43	Fred	29	new	33
44	Warren	29	new	24
45	Herbert	28	↓14	42
46	Howard	28	↓11	27
47	Philip	28	new	72
48	Maurice	27	new	>100
49	Leonard	25	↓9	39
50	Bernard	23	↓3	45

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