Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1928

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1928 were Mary for girls (319 babies) and John for boys (359). John ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 10,230 babies born in Rhode Island in 1928 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1928

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

Hope: 19 babies, 15.2× the national rate
Claire: 83 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Cecile: 15 babies, 10.2× the national rate
Therese: 35 babies, 10.1× the national rate
Jeannette: 32 babies, 8× the national rate
Constance: 38 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Theresa: 125 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Muriel: 33 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Marguerite: 29 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Angelina: 16 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 44 babies, 55.9× the national rate
Armand: 19 babies, 13.8× the national rate
Wilfred: 32 babies, 11× the national rate
Gerard: 29 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Antonio: 27 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Roland: 59 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Anthony: 128 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Edmund: 23 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Manuel: 36 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Angelo: 15 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1928

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	Mary	319	–	1
2	Dorothy	198	–	3
3	Barbara	173	↑1	8
4	Anna	129	↓1	16
5	Theresa	125	↑2	49
6	Helen	123	↓1	4
7	Margaret	110	↑1	5
8	Doris	99	↓2	7
9	Marie	97	↑4	21
10	Alice	96	↑1	19
11	Evelyn	86	↑4	17
12	Shirley	85	↑6	10
13	Claire	83	↑1	>100
14	Virginia	82	↓4	9
15	Elizabeth	81	↑11	14
16	Irene	80	↑1	28
17	Rita	79	↓8	57
18	Gloria	76	↑2	25
19	Eleanor	74	↑4	36
20	Lillian	70	↓1	35
21	Ruth	66	↓5	6
22	Rose	65	↓10	24
23	Florence	58	↓1	32
24	Frances	57	↑1	13
25	Phyllis	56	↑17	26
26	Louise	55	↑5	31
27	Dolores	50	new	20
28	Catherine	49	–	33
29	Marion	49	↑3	47
30	Jean	46	↓9	12
31	Lucille	46	↓4	51
32	Marjorie	45	↑12	29
33	Mildred	45	↓4	15
34	Gertrude	43	↑4	86
35	Norma	42	–	23
36	Ann	41	↓2	54
37	Eileen	41	–	>100
38	Nancy	41	↓5	43
39	Josephine	39	–	42
40	Beverly	38	new	46
41	Constance	38	new	>100
42	Patricia	38	new	11
43	Grace	36	↑6	52
44	Jane	35	↑1	62
45	Therese	35	↓15	>100
46	Lorraine	33	↓3	39
47	Muriel	33	↓6	>100
48	Jeannette	32	↑2	>100
49	Pauline	32	↓25	48
50	Edith	31	↓10	56

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1927	US rank
1	John	359	–	2
2	Robert	337	↑1	1
3	Joseph	271	↓1	9
4	William	248	–	4
5	George	170	↑1	8
6	James	170	↑1	3
7	Edward	166	↑1	10
8	Richard	154	↑2	6
9	Raymond	146	↓4	16
10	Anthony	128	↑3	44
11	Charles	116	↓2	5
12	Albert	106	↑3	23
13	Thomas	104	↓1	11
14	Frank	95	↓3	12
15	Alfred	93	↑14	33
16	Donald	85	–	7
17	Arthur	81	↓3	22
18	Henry	70	↑3	21
19	Norman	68	–	39
20	Francis	67	↓2	40
21	Walter	67	↑4	18
22	Ernest	63	↑2	43
23	Roland	59	↓1	>100
24	Paul	58	↓4	13
25	Louis	56	↓8	32
26	Eugene	53	↑9	20
27	Leo	53	↓1	61
28	Michael	49	↑10	53
29	Kenneth	48	↑16	17
30	Frederick	46	↑6	67
31	Normand	44	↓8	>100
32	David	43	↓4	19
33	Harold	42	↓3	14
34	Ralph	39	↓7	24
35	Roger	39	↓4	71
36	Peter	37	↓3	56
37	Manuel	36	new	>100
38	Russell	35	↑1	55
39	Vincent	33	↓7	82
40	Wilfred	32	new	>100
41	Bernard	31	↓1	49
42	Harry	31	↑1	26
43	Earl	29	↓9	37
44	Gerard	29	↓2	>100
45	Antonio	27	new	>100
46	Herbert	27	↑1	25
47	Stanley	27	↓1	45
48	Edmund	23	new	>100
49	Gerald	23	↓12	41
50	Fred	21	new	36

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