Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1930

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1930 were Mary for girls (278 babies) and Robert for boys (385). Social Security records list 9,651 babies born in Rhode Island in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1930

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: 15 babies, 14.7× the national rate
Claire: 86 babies, 12.2× the national rate
Therese: 23 babies, 9.3× the national rate
Jeannine: 16 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Madeline: 27 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Muriel: 31 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Jeannette: 22 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Constance: 32 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Teresa: 18 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Theresa: 78 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 43 babies, 47.2× the national rate
Armand: 22 babies, 20.6× the national rate
Roland: 51 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Gerard: 17 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Edmund: 22 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Anthony: 124 babies, 6× the national rate
Irving: 16 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Angelo: 18 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Vincent: 54 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Antonio: 17 babies, 5.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	278	–	1
2	Barbara	206	↑1	6
3	Dorothy	176	↓1	3
4	Anna	116	↑1	23
5	Joan	106	↑17	8
6	Doris	98	–	9
7	Shirley	95	↑7	11
8	Helen	92	↓4	4
9	Dolores	88	↑16	13
10	Claire	86	↑1	>100
11	Elizabeth	80	↑1	15
12	Rita	78	↑3	42
13	Theresa	78	↓4	50
14	Irene	74	↓4	33
15	Patricia	74	↑20	7
16	Eleanor	72	↑4	39
17	Jean	72	↑1	14
18	Margaret	72	↓10	5
19	Gloria	69	↓3	30
20	Alice	65	↓13	20
21	Marie	65	↓8	26
22	Nancy	59	↑4	24
23	Ruth	58	↑1	10
24	Virginia	58	↓7	12
25	Rose	56	↓2	29
26	Beverly	55	↑16	34
27	Lillian	55	↑1	44
28	Evelyn	54	↓9	19
29	Pauline	50	↑1	52
30	Louise	49	↑8	31
31	Florence	48	↓10	38
32	Catherine	47	↑11	35
33	Norma	47	↓2	25
34	Phyllis	46	↑6	28
35	Ann	45	↓3	41
36	Lorraine	44	new	46
37	Lucille	44	↓8	59
38	Frances	43	↓5	16
39	Jeanne	39	new	92
40	Jacqueline	38	new	74
41	Marilyn	38	↑4	22
42	Betty	37	new	2
43	Lois	37	↓6	17
44	Marion	35	↓5	60
45	Eileen	34	↓1	>100
46	Marjorie	34	↑3	32
47	Constance	32	new	>100
48	Jane	32	new	55
49	Josephine	31	↓22	49
50	Muriel	31	↓9	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Robert	385	↑1	1
2	John	323	↓1	3
3	Joseph	253	–	9
4	William	225	–	4
5	Raymond	174	↑4	16
6	James	159	↓1	2
7	George	154	↓1	8
8	Edward	147	–	10
9	Richard	144	↓2	5
10	Donald	128	–	7
11	Anthony	124	–	44
12	Charles	116	–	6
13	Frank	100	↑2	13
14	Paul	81	↑4	12
15	Albert	79	↓2	24
16	Thomas	78	↓2	11
17	Alfred	75	–	46
18	Arthur	72	↓2	23
19	Henry	72	↑2	22
20	Norman	58	–	40
21	David	57	↑4	15
22	Leo	57	↑5	63
23	Kenneth	56	↑11	17
24	Vincent	54	↑11	84
25	Ernest	52	↑5	43
26	Louis	52	↓2	34
27	Walter	52	↓4	19
28	Roland	51	↓6	>100
29	Francis	49	↓10	42
30	Peter	49	↑14	56
31	Michael	47	↑2	54
32	Eugene	43	↓4	21
33	Normand	43	↓7	>100
34	Frederick	41	↓2	74
35	Ralph	41	↓4	25
36	Harold	40	–	18
37	Daniel	35	↑1	47
38	Roger	35	↓9	58
39	Gerald	31	↓2	30
40	Harry	31	↑2	28
41	Bernard	27	–	52
42	Herbert	27	↓3	35
43	Ronald	27	new	37
44	Leonard	26	new	45
45	Lawrence	25	new	36
46	Howard	24	new	31
47	Armand	22	new	>100
48	Earl	22	–	38
49	Edmund	22	new	>100
50	Manuel	22	–	>100

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