Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1926

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1926 were Mary for girls (309 babies) and John for boys (420). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 10,759 babies born in Rhode Island in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1926

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: 21 babies, 101.7× the national rate
Therese: 75 babies, 20.9× the national rate
Filomena: 16 babies, 20× the national rate
Hope: 16 babies, 11.2× the national rate
Claire: 80 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Cecile: 18 babies, 10.4× the national rate
Jeannette: 32 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Angela: 20 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Theresa: 125 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Angelina: 23 babies, 5.8× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 57 babies, 62.3× the national rate
Lucien: 18 babies, 26.5× the national rate
Armand: 27 babies, 22.8× the national rate
Rene: 21 babies, 22.2× the national rate
Gerard: 31 babies, 11× the national rate
Antonio: 30 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Angelo: 26 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Roland: 51 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Anthony: 135 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Roger: 43 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	309	–	1
2	Dorothy	198	–	2
3	Helen	149	–	4
4	Barbara	132	↑5	16
5	Anna	129	↓1	15
6	Doris	127	↓1	7
7	Theresa	125	↑1	64
8	Margaret	121	↓2	5
9	Rita	116	↓2	50
10	Alice	102	↑10	17
11	Ruth	100	↑3	6
12	Irene	96	↑1	21
13	Gloria	95	↓3	20
14	Elizabeth	88	↑2	11
15	Rose	84	↓4	25
16	Shirley	82	↑7	14
17	Claire	80	↑5	>100
18	Marie	80	↓3	18
19	Florence	79	↓2	26
20	Lillian	78	↓2	28
21	Therese	75	↑4	>100
22	Evelyn	73	↓10	13
23	Virginia	73	↓4	8
24	Mildred	65	↑5	9
25	Louise	63	↑3	27
26	Josephine	61	↑1	37
27	Frances	60	↓6	10
28	Eleanor	56	↓2	32
29	Catherine	52	↓5	31
30	Pauline	51	↑3	39
31	Muriel	49	↑5	>100
32	Nancy	48	↑14	57
33	Lucille	47	↑2	43
34	Marjorie	45	↓2	22
35	Beatrice	44	↓5	58
36	Jean	44	↓2	12
37	Eileen	42	↑8	92
38	Constance	40	↑6	>100
39	Marion	40	↓8	47
40	Phyllis	38	↓1	33
41	Edith	36	↑2	42
42	Ann	34	↓2	55
43	Gertrude	34	↑5	71
44	Gladys	34	new	35
45	Grace	33	↓8	46
46	Jeannette	32	↓8	>100
47	Anne	31	↓6	86
48	Lucy	31	new	>100
49	Norma	29	↓2	29
50	Patricia	29	new	23

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	John	420	–	2
2	Joseph	300	–	8
3	Robert	268	↑1	1
4	William	255	↓1	4
5	George	192	↑3	6
6	Raymond	185	↑1	15
7	James	168	↓1	3
8	Edward	158	↓3	10
9	Anthony	135	↑4	42
10	Charles	125	–	5
11	Richard	117	↑1	7
12	Thomas	108	↓3	11
13	Frank	107	↓2	12
14	Arthur	104	↑1	20
15	Albert	98	↓1	21
16	Louis	84	↑3	30
17	Donald	83	↓1	9
18	Francis	80	↓1	35
19	Walter	78	↑1	17
20	Norman	74	↑6	39
21	Paul	69	↑2	13
22	Henry	68	↓1	19
23	Alfred	65	↓5	45
24	Leo	61	↓2	54
25	Ernest	60	↓1	37
26	Peter	59	↑2	58
27	Normand	57	↑4	>100
28	Roland	51	↑7	>100
29	Kenneth	48	↑3	18
30	Ralph	44	↓3	24
31	Roger	43	↑10	89
32	Frederick	40	↑4	64
33	Vincent	39	↓8	77
34	Bernard	37	new	49
35	Harold	37	↓2	14
36	Michael	37	↓2	56
37	Daniel	36	↑2	46
38	David	36	↓8	22
39	Eugene	32	↓10	23
40	Gerard	31	new	>100
41	Antonio	30	new	>100
42	Everett	30	new	>100
43	Maurice	30	↓1	>100
44	Herbert	29	↓1	44
45	Manuel	29	↓7	>100
46	Russell	29	↑1	52
47	Earl	28	↓7	32
48	Armand	27	–	>100
49	Lawrence	27	↓4	36
50	Samuel	27	new	48

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