Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1925

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1925 were Mary for girls (383 babies) and John for boys (413). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 11,075 babies born in Rhode Island in 1925 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1925

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

Yvette: 22 babies, 29.4× the national rate
Therese: 62 babies, 24.9× the national rate
Madeleine: 17 babies, 16.3× the national rate
Cecile: 31 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Hope: 18 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Claire: 73 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Concetta: 17 babies, 8.7× the national rate
Jeannette: 37 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Yolanda: 18 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Theresa: 109 babies, 6.6× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 44 babies, 53.1× the national rate
Domenic: 22 babies, 40.4× the national rate
Lucien: 16 babies, 25.1× the national rate
Rene: 21 babies, 24.5× the national rate
Armand: 24 babies, 17.2× the national rate
Lionel: 17 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Gerard: 21 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Antonio: 23 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Angelo: 22 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Roland: 41 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1925

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	Mary	383	–	1
2	Dorothy	211	–	2
3	Helen	177	–	4
4	Anna	149	–	13
5	Doris	141	↑1	8
6	Margaret	131	↑2	5
7	Rita	129	↓2	48
8	Theresa	109	↑4	80
9	Barbara	108	↑1	22
10	Gloria	107	↑13	20
11	Rose	99	–	26
12	Evelyn	95	↑3	12
13	Irene	94	↑4	19
14	Ruth	94	↓5	6
15	Marie	92	↓1	16
16	Elizabeth	86	↓3	10
17	Florence	83	↓1	24
18	Lillian	83	↑1	25
19	Virginia	81	↓1	7
20	Alice	79	↓13	15
21	Frances	79	↑6	11
22	Claire	73	↑6	>100
23	Shirley	73	↑7	17
24	Catherine	63	–	29
25	Therese	62	new	>100
26	Eleanor	59	↓6	31
27	Josephine	53	↓1	36
28	Louise	51	↓3	27
29	Mildred	51	↓7	9
30	Beatrice	48	↑1	50
31	Marion	46	↓10	47
32	Marjorie	42	↓3	21
33	Pauline	42	↑9	38
34	Jean	41	↑16	14
35	Lucille	40	↑6	41
36	Muriel	39	↓4	>100
37	Grace	38	↓2	44
38	Jeannette	37	new	>100
39	Phyllis	37	new	40
40	Ann	36	↓1	52
41	Anne	36	↑4	85
42	Betty	36	new	3
43	Edith	36	↓6	42
44	Constance	35	–	>100
45	Eileen	34	↓5	96
46	Nancy	34	new	60
47	Norma	34	↓14	34
48	Gertrude	33	↓14	70
49	Elsie	32	new	63
50	Cecile	31	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1924	US rank
1	John	413	–	2
2	Joseph	312	–	7
3	William	276	–	3
4	Robert	254	–	1
5	Edward	184	↑1	9
6	James	173	↑2	4
7	Raymond	171	–	15
8	George	162	↓3	6
9	Thomas	127	↑2	11
10	Charles	125	↓1	5
11	Frank	119	↓1	12
12	Richard	119	↑8	8
13	Anthony	114	↑1	39
14	Albert	108	↓1	21
15	Arthur	106	↓3	20
16	Donald	97	↑6	10
17	Francis	79	↓2	35
18	Alfred	77	↓2	43
19	Louis	77	↑2	29
20	Walter	77	↓2	16
21	Henry	73	↓2	18
22	Leo	71	↓5	54
23	Paul	68	↑7	13
24	Ernest	56	↓1	37
25	Vincent	52	↑6	71
26	Norman	50	↑1	41
27	Ralph	48	↑2	25
28	Peter	47	↑6	60
29	Eugene	46	↑4	24
30	David	44	↑9	22
31	Normand	44	↓3	>100
32	Kenneth	42	↑6	19
33	Harold	41	↓9	14
34	Michael	41	↓8	55
35	Roland	41	↓10	98
36	Frederick	38	↓4	65
37	Harry	37	–	23
38	Manuel	36	↓3	>100
39	Daniel	34	↓3	44
40	Earl	33	↑3	31
41	Roger	33	–	90
42	Maurice	32	↓2	>100
43	Herbert	30	↑5	42
44	Stanley	29	↓2	40
45	Lawrence	26	new	36
46	Andrew	25	new	56
47	Russell	25	↓2	53
48	Armand	24	↓2	>100
49	Fred	24	new	33
50	Leonard	24	new	38

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