Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1929

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1929 were Mary for girls (269 babies) and John for boys (323). John ranked #3 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 9,542 babies born in Rhode Island in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1929

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: 17 babies, 29.5× the national rate
Cecile: 24 babies, 17.9× the national rate
Therese: 44 babies, 15.1× the national rate
Hope: 15 babies, 13.5× the national rate
Claire: 82 babies, 11× the national rate
Jeannette: 32 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Angelina: 21 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Muriel: 37 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Angela: 16 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Constance: 27 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 48 babies, 49.9× the national rate
Gerard: 21 babies, 8.8× the national rate
Roland: 53 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Angelo: 22 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Anthony: 113 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Maurice: 26 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Vincent: 37 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Leo: 47 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Roger: 45 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Alfred: 72 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Mary	269	–	1
2	Dorothy	185	–	3
3	Barbara	183	–	7
4	Helen	123	↑2	4
5	Anna	122	↓1	20
6	Doris	106	↑2	6
7	Alice	97	↑3	21
8	Margaret	95	↓1	5
9	Theresa	88	↓4	49
10	Irene	85	↑6	29
11	Claire	82	↑2	>100
12	Elizabeth	79	↑3	15
13	Marie	79	↓4	22
14	Shirley	75	↓2	9
15	Rita	73	↑2	52
16	Gloria	72	↑2	28
17	Virginia	71	↓3	11
18	Jean	69	↑12	12
19	Evelyn	67	↓8	19
20	Eleanor	66	↓1	38
21	Florence	66	↑2	35
22	Joan	65	new	13
23	Rose	63	↓1	26
24	Ruth	59	↓3	8
25	Dolores	56	↑2	14
26	Nancy	50	↑12	32
27	Josephine	48	↑12	45
28	Lillian	48	↓8	40
29	Lucille	48	↑2	57
30	Pauline	48	↑19	50
31	Norma	46	↑4	25
32	Ann	44	↑4	46
33	Frances	44	↓9	16
34	Mildred	44	↓1	18
35	Patricia	44	↑7	10
36	Therese	44	↑9	>100
37	Lois	39	new	17
38	Louise	39	↓12	31
39	Marion	39	↓10	53
40	Phyllis	39	↓15	24
41	Muriel	37	↑6	>100
42	Beverly	36	↓2	39
43	Catherine	36	↓15	34
44	Eileen	35	↓7	98
45	Marilyn	34	new	33
46	Jeannette	32	↑2	>100
47	Beatrice	31	new	72
48	Anne	30	new	91
49	Marjorie	30	↓17	30
50	Agnes	29	new	94

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	John	323	–	3
2	Robert	299	–	1
3	Joseph	245	–	9
4	William	237	–	4
5	James	163	↑1	2
6	George	157	↓1	8
7	Richard	144	↑1	6
8	Edward	140	↓1	10
9	Raymond	139	–	15
10	Donald	123	↑6	7
11	Anthony	113	↓1	44
12	Charles	101	↓1	5
13	Albert	99	↓1	24
14	Thomas	97	↓1	11
15	Frank	85	↓1	12
16	Arthur	73	↑1	22
17	Alfred	72	↓2	41
18	Paul	70	↑6	13
19	Francis	67	↑1	39
20	Norman	64	↓1	40
21	Henry	61	↓3	21
22	Roland	53	↑1	>100
23	Walter	53	↓2	19
24	Louis	51	↑1	32
25	David	49	↑7	17
26	Normand	48	↑5	>100
27	Leo	47	–	60
28	Eugene	45	↓2	20
29	Roger	45	↑6	64
30	Ernest	44	↓8	43
31	Ralph	42	↑3	26
32	Frederick	40	↓2	67
33	Michael	38	↓5	54
34	Kenneth	37	↓5	18
35	Vincent	37	↑4	82
36	Harold	31	↓3	16
37	Gerald	28	↑12	33
38	Daniel	27	new	47
39	Herbert	27	↑7	25
40	Maurice	26	new	>100
41	Bernard	25	–	52
42	Harry	25	–	27
43	Stanley	25	↑4	48
44	Peter	24	↓8	55
45	Theodore	24	new	65
46	Angelo	22	new	>100
47	Carl	22	new	28
48	Earl	22	↓5	36
49	Gerard	21	↓5	>100
50	Manuel	21	↓13	>100

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