Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1932

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1932 were Barbara for girls (229 babies) and Robert for boys (399). Barbara ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 9,020 babies born in Rhode Island in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1932

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

Cecile: 18 babies, 18.3× the national rate
Therese: 25 babies, 15× the national rate
Claire: 93 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Jeannette: 30 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Muriel: 26 babies, 6× the national rate
Constance: 59 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Maureen: 20 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Estelle: 17 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Eileen: 35 babies, 4× the national rate
Madeline: 15 babies, 4× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 34 babies, 38.1× the national rate
Rene: 17 babies, 21.5× the national rate
Jean: 16 babies, 15.3× the national rate
Angelo: 20 babies, 7.5× the national rate
Roland: 44 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Maurice: 31 babies, 5× the national rate
Anthony: 91 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Salvatore: 16 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Vincent: 35 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Alfred: 63 babies, 3.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Barbara	229	↑1	3
2	Mary	225	↓1	1
3	Joan	148	↑1	5
4	Dorothy	135	↓1	4
5	Anna	98	↑1	24
6	Claire	93	↓1	>100
7	Margaret	84	↑7	7
8	Dolores	80	↑12	18
9	Patricia	79	↑4	6
10	Ann	76	↑2	34
11	Doris	76	↓3	10
12	Shirley	72	↓1	9
13	Jean	70	↑6	15
14	Helen	69	↓7	8
15	Elizabeth	68	↑1	17
16	Gloria	68	↓7	25
17	Marie	68	↑5	31
18	Rita	68	↑5	53
19	Nancy	67	↑17	13
20	Beverly	62	↑6	28
21	Theresa	62	↓3	60
22	Alice	59	↓12	21
23	Constance	59	↑4	99
24	Ruth	57	↓7	11
25	Irene	55	↓10	43
26	Pauline	54	↑2	59
27	Evelyn	50	↑4	23
28	Norma	50	↑2	22
29	Virginia	49	↓4	14
30	Lorraine	47	↑4	55
31	Lucille	46	↑9	63
32	Marilyn	46	↑1	16
33	Rose	44	↓4	33
34	Frances	42	↑1	19
35	Eleanor	40	↓14	45
36	Louise	38	↓4	36
37	Lillian	37	↑1	48
38	Lois	37	new	20
39	Phyllis	36	new	30
40	Eileen	35	new	>100
41	Florence	35	↓17	47
42	Joyce	33	↑6	12
43	Mildred	31	↑2	26
44	Anne	30	↑2	81
45	Betty	30	↓4	2
46	Carol	30	new	32
47	Carolyn	30	↑2	46
48	Catherine	30	↓1	39
49	Janet	30	↓7	35
50	Jeannette	30	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Robert	399	–	1
2	John	346	–	3
3	Joseph	232	↑1	9
4	William	210	↓1	4
5	Richard	188	–	5
6	James	168	↑1	2
7	Edward	156	↓1	11
8	Donald	143	↑1	7
9	George	143	↓1	8
10	Raymond	141	–	19
11	Charles	106	↑1	6
12	Frank	92	↑3	15
13	Anthony	91	–	45
14	Thomas	87	↓3	10
15	Albert	71	↑4	26
16	Arthur	69	↓2	25
17	Paul	68	–	13
18	Ronald	65	↑32	16
19	Alfred	63	↓1	49
20	Henry	61	↑1	23
21	Norman	61	↓1	37
22	David	55	↑1	12
23	Francis	55	↓7	43
24	Walter	54	↑6	21
25	Ernest	45	↑18	47
26	Roland	44	↑2	>100
27	Roger	41	↓2	50
28	Kenneth	40	↓6	14
29	Louis	40	↓5	39
30	Harold	38	↓1	18
31	Gerald	37	↑15	24
32	Leo	37	↓6	74
33	Daniel	35	↑1	42
34	Eugene	35	↓1	22
35	Vincent	35	↓4	93
36	Normand	34	↑1	>100
37	Michael	33	↓5	54
38	Peter	33	↓2	62
39	Harry	32	new	32
40	Maurice	31	↓2	>100
41	Frederick	30	↓6	73
42	Lawrence	30	↓2	35
43	Ralph	27	↓16	27
44	Herbert	23	–	44
45	Angelo	20	new	>100
46	Fred	20	↑3	33
47	Howard	20	new	36
48	Everett	19	new	>100
49	Gilbert	19	↓7	97
50	Theodore	19	new	67

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