Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1924

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1924 were Mary for girls (414 babies) and John for boys (426). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 11,504 babies born in Rhode Island in 1924 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1924

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: 17 babies, 72.1× the national rate
Therese: 31 babies, 22.7× the national rate
Cecile: 29 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Hope: 21 babies, 10.9× the national rate
Angelina: 42 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Claire: 59 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Theresa: 108 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Rita: 141 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Muriel: 50 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Constance: 37 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 52 babies, 68.2× the national rate
Domenic: 19 babies, 26.6× the national rate
Armand: 28 babies, 17.7× the national rate
Gerard: 25 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Antonio: 29 babies, 8.5× the national rate
Roland: 62 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Wilfred: 23 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Manuel: 40 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Angelo: 23 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Leo: 90 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1924

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	Mary	414	–	1
2	Dorothy	208	–	2
3	Helen	169	–	3
4	Anna	143	–	13
5	Rita	141	↑3	49
6	Doris	134	–	9
7	Alice	126	↑4	15
8	Margaret	126	↓3	5
9	Ruth	116	↓2	6
10	Barbara	110	↑7	28
11	Rose	108	↓1	25
12	Theresa	108	↑12	96
13	Elizabeth	100	↓1	11
14	Marie	97	↑2	14
15	Evelyn	91	↑3	12
16	Florence	90	↓2	20
17	Irene	90	↓8	18
18	Virginia	88	↓5	7
19	Lillian	78	↓4	23
20	Eleanor	74	↑1	29
21	Marion	72	↑2	46
22	Mildred	72	–	8
23	Gloria	67	↑3	41
24	Catherine	66	↓4	27
25	Louise	64	↑5	24
26	Josephine	63	↑9	34
27	Frances	61	↓8	10
28	Claire	59	↓3	>100
29	Marjorie	53	↑5	17
30	Shirley	52	↓1	19
31	Beatrice	51	↑1	50
32	Muriel	50	↓1	>100
33	Norma	49	new	40
34	Gertrude	48	↓6	60
35	Grace	44	↑2	43
36	Angelina	42	new	>100
37	Edith	42	↓10	36
38	Agnes	41	new	63
39	Ann	41	↑3	55
40	Eileen	40	new	93
41	Lucille	40	–	37
42	Pauline	40	↓2	38
43	Bertha	37	new	65
44	Constance	37	↓11	>100
45	Anne	36	new	79
46	Ethel	35	new	39
47	Gladys	35	↓11	30
48	Jennie	33	↓9	>100
49	Esther	31	↓11	51
50	Jean	31	new	16

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1923	US rank
1	John	426	–	2
2	Joseph	344	–	7
3	William	278	–	3
4	Robert	258	–	1
5	George	198	↑1	6
6	Edward	188	↓1	9
7	Raymond	179	–	15
8	James	177	–	4
9	Charles	145	↑1	5
10	Frank	132	↑2	12
11	Thomas	127	↓2	11
12	Arthur	122	↑5	20
13	Albert	115	–	21
14	Anthony	107	↓3	39
15	Francis	94	↑6	34
16	Alfred	91	–	43
17	Leo	90	↑12	51
18	Walter	81	↓3	16
19	Henry	80	↓5	18
20	Richard	79	↓2	8
21	Louis	78	↓1	28
22	Donald	72	↓3	10
23	Ernest	65	↓1	37
24	Harold	62	–	13
25	Roland	62	↑7	98
26	Michael	57	–	54
27	Norman	53	↓2	42
28	Normand	52	↑3	>100
29	Ralph	52	↓6	23
30	Paul	50	↓2	14
31	Vincent	50	↑3	78
32	Frederick	48	↑3	62
33	Eugene	42	↓6	25
34	Peter	42	↓4	59
35	Manuel	40	↑3	>100
36	Daniel	39	↑4	47
37	Harry	39	–	22
38	Kenneth	39	↓2	19
39	David	32	↓6	24
40	Maurice	31	↑8	>100
41	Roger	31	new	93
42	Stanley	31	↓3	40
43	Earl	30	↑2	33
44	Antonio	29	new	>100
45	Russell	29	↓3	52
46	Armand	28	new	>100
47	Edwin	26	new	55
48	Herbert	26	↓7	41
49	Gerard	25	↑1	>100
50	Howard	25	new	26

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