Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1927

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1927 were Mary for girls (338 babies) and John for boys (392). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 10,699 babies born in Rhode Island in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1927

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: 16 babies, 82.8× the national rate
Madeleine: 17 babies, 18.7× the national rate
Therese: 54 babies, 14.3× the national rate
Cecile: 22 babies, 13.2× the national rate
Hope: 18 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Claire: 89 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Carmela: 19 babies, 8× the national rate
Angelina: 30 babies, 7.4× the national rate
Jeannette: 29 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Theresa: 120 babies, 5.2× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 58 babies, 62.8× the national rate
Domenic: 19 babies, 34× the national rate
Rene: 23 babies, 22.9× the national rate
Armand: 17 babies, 12.7× the national rate
Gerard: 29 babies, 9.7× the national rate
Roland: 65 babies, 8× the national rate
Mario: 16 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Antonio: 21 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Wilfred: 18 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Angelo: 21 babies, 5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Mary	338	–	1
2	Dorothy	197	–	2
3	Anna	153	↑2	16
4	Barbara	152	–	10
5	Helen	132	↓2	4
6	Doris	122	–	7
7	Theresa	120	–	52
8	Margaret	113	–	5
9	Rita	102	–	54
10	Virginia	96	↑13	8
11	Alice	94	↓1	17
12	Rose	94	↑3	23
13	Marie	90	↑5	20
14	Claire	89	↑3	>100
15	Evelyn	89	↑7	15
16	Ruth	84	↓5	6
17	Irene	81	↓5	21
18	Shirley	81	↓2	9
19	Lillian	72	↑1	32
20	Gloria	71	↓7	22
21	Jean	62	↑15	14
22	Florence	61	↓3	28
23	Eleanor	59	↑5	33
24	Pauline	59	↑6	42
25	Frances	58	↑2	12
26	Elizabeth	57	↓12	13
27	Lucille	56	↑6	45
28	Catherine	54	↑1	31
29	Mildred	54	↓5	11
30	Therese	54	↓9	>100
31	Louise	46	↓6	27
32	Marion	46	↑7	51
33	Nancy	46	↓1	56
34	Ann	40	↑8	59
35	Norma	39	↑14	26
36	Beatrice	38	↓1	67
37	Eileen	37	–	91
38	Gertrude	37	↑5	78
39	Josephine	37	↓13	39
40	Edith	36	↑1	48
41	Muriel	36	↓10	>100
42	Phyllis	36	↓2	29
43	Lorraine	35	new	44
44	Marjorie	33	↓10	25
45	Jane	32	new	60
46	Betty	31	new	3
47	Jeanne	31	new	85
48	Angelina	30	new	>100
49	Grace	29	↓4	50
50	Jeannette	29	↓4	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	John	392	–	2
2	Joseph	319	–	9
3	Robert	299	–	1
4	William	291	–	4
5	Raymond	231	↑1	15
6	George	203	↓1	7
7	James	194	–	3
8	Edward	164	–	10
9	Charles	135	↑1	5
10	Richard	125	↑1	6
11	Frank	114	↑2	12
12	Thomas	109	–	11
13	Anthony	108	↓4	43
14	Arthur	100	–	22
15	Albert	96	–	23
16	Donald	85	↑1	8
17	Louis	84	↓1	29
18	Francis	78	–	36
19	Norman	77	↑1	39
20	Paul	71	↑1	13
21	Henry	66	↑1	19
22	Roland	65	↑6	>100
23	Normand	58	↑4	>100
24	Ernest	55	↑1	41
25	Walter	55	↓6	17
26	Leo	53	↓2	55
27	Ralph	50	↑3	24
28	David	45	↑10	21
29	Alfred	44	↓6	45
30	Harold	44	↑5	14
31	Roger	40	–	84
32	Vincent	40	↑1	77
33	Peter	39	↓7	59
34	Earl	37	↑13	33
35	Eugene	36	↑4	20
36	Frederick	35	↓4	64
37	Gerald	34	new	38
38	Michael	33	↓2	52
39	Russell	31	↑7	54
40	Bernard	30	↓6	50
41	Maurice	30	↑2	>100
42	Gerard	29	↓2	>100
43	Harry	29	new	25
44	Howard	29	new	28
45	Kenneth	26	↓16	18
46	Stanley	26	new	44
47	Herbert	25	↓3	42
48	Daniel	24	↓11	46
49	Philip	23	new	75
50	Rene	23	new	>100

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