Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1931

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1931 were Mary for girls (216 babies) and Robert for boys (390). Social Security records list 9,022 babies born in Rhode Island in 1931 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1931

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

Claire: 106 babies, 15.5× the national rate
Cecile: 16 babies, 14.6× the national rate
Therese: 27 babies, 14.2× the national rate
Jeannette: 28 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Muriel: 27 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Constance: 51 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Annette: 18 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Maureen: 16 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Madeline: 15 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Theresa: 62 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 29 babies, 35.5× the national rate
Lucien: 15 babies, 35× the national rate
Gerard: 18 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Salvatore: 21 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Anthony: 104 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Roland: 41 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Angelo: 15 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Maurice: 28 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Vincent: 38 babies, 4× the national rate
Alfred: 64 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1931

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Mary	216	–	1
2	Barbara	204	–	4
3	Dorothy	165	–	3
4	Joan	143	↑1	5
5	Claire	106	↑5	>100
6	Anna	102	↓2	25
7	Helen	97	↑1	6
8	Doris	83	↓2	10
9	Gloria	82	↑10	23
10	Alice	80	↑10	21
11	Shirley	79	↓4	9
12	Ann	73	↑23	35
13	Patricia	69	↑2	8
14	Margaret	67	↑4	7
15	Irene	66	↓1	37
16	Elizabeth	63	↓5	16
17	Ruth	63	↑6	11
18	Theresa	62	↓5	59
19	Jean	61	↓2	13
20	Dolores	59	↓11	14
21	Eleanor	58	↓5	40
22	Marie	57	↓1	27
23	Rita	57	↓11	48
24	Florence	56	↑7	43
25	Virginia	55	↓1	12
26	Beverly	52	–	31
27	Constance	51	↑20	>100
28	Pauline	51	↑1	56
29	Rose	51	↓4	30
30	Norma	50	↑3	22
31	Evelyn	48	↓3	24
32	Louise	48	↓2	33
33	Marilyn	48	↑8	19
34	Lorraine	47	↑2	49
35	Frances	46	↑3	18
36	Nancy	45	↓14	17
37	Marion	43	↑7	66
38	Lillian	35	↓11	47
39	Josephine	34	↑10	51
40	Lucille	32	↓3	62
41	Betty	31	↑1	2
42	Janet	31	new	45
43	Jeanne	31	↓4	98
44	Marjorie	31	↑2	34
45	Mildred	31	new	26
46	Anne	29	new	80
47	Catherine	29	↓15	36
48	Joyce	29	new	15
49	Carolyn	28	new	60
50	Grace	28	new	70

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1930	US rank
1	Robert	390	–	1
2	John	315	–	3
3	William	248	↑1	4
4	Joseph	244	↓1	9
5	Richard	175	↑4	5
6	Edward	130	↑2	11
7	James	129	↓1	2
8	George	128	↓1	8
9	Donald	127	↑1	7
10	Raymond	122	↓5	17
11	Thomas	117	↑5	10
12	Charles	105	–	6
13	Anthony	104	↓2	46
14	Arthur	94	↑4	23
15	Frank	78	↓2	16
16	Francis	68	↑13	42
17	Paul	68	↓3	12
18	Alfred	64	↓1	50
19	Albert	57	↓4	24
20	Norman	56	–	36
21	Henry	53	↓2	22
22	Kenneth	51	↑1	14
23	David	49	↓2	13
24	Louis	49	↑2	37
25	Roger	45	↑13	53
26	Leo	42	↓4	69
27	Ralph	41	↑8	25
28	Roland	41	–	>100
29	Harold	39	↑7	18
30	Walter	39	↓3	20
31	Vincent	38	↓7	86
32	Michael	36	↓1	55
33	Eugene	34	↓1	21
34	Daniel	30	↑3	44
35	Frederick	30	↓1	73
36	Peter	30	↓6	61
37	Normand	29	↓4	>100
38	Maurice	28	new	>100
39	Russell	28	new	63
40	Lawrence	27	↑5	38
41	Philip	27	new	71
42	Gilbert	26	new	92
43	Ernest	25	↓18	47
44	Herbert	25	↓2	41
45	Bernard	23	↓4	54
46	Gerald	23	↓7	26
47	Leonard	23	↓3	48
48	Salvatore	21	new	>100
49	Fred	20	new	33
50	Ronald	20	↓7	27

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