Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1934

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1934 were Joan for girls (229 babies) and Robert for boys (433). Joan ranked #7 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 8,385 babies born in Rhode Island in 1934 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1934

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: 80 babies, 15.5× the national rate
Jeannine: 16 babies, 12.1× the national rate
Jeannette: 29 babies, 8× the national rate
Muriel: 22 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Constance: 45 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Maureen: 22 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Pauline: 60 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Jeanne: 29 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Cynthia: 16 babies, 4× the national rate
Lucille: 42 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 30 babies, 51.5× the national rate
Angelo: 16 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Gerard: 16 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Roland: 37 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Anthony: 90 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Alfred: 51 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Vincent: 29 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Maurice: 19 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Francis: 60 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Frederick: 35 babies, 3.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1934

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Joan	229	↑2	7
2	Barbara	210	↓1	3
3	Mary	165	↓1	1
4	Shirley	144	↑13	4
5	Dorothy	121	↓1	5
6	Patricia	93	↑3	6
7	Claire	80	↓1	>100
8	Dolores	67	↑6	26
9	Nancy	67	↑2	10
10	Helen	66	↑8	9
11	Margaret	66	↓6	8
12	Beverly	63	↑1	22
13	Jean	63	↓5	16
14	Marie	63	↑15	34
15	Ann	62	↓8	32
16	Doris	60	↓1	11
17	Pauline	60	↑13	71
18	Elizabeth	55	↓8	18
19	Carol	54	↑9	14
20	Gloria	54	↑2	30
21	Anna	52	↓5	31
22	Irene	49	↓3	49
23	Eleanor	48	↓3	44
24	Lorraine	48	↑1	56
25	Marilyn	47	↑13	17
26	Ruth	47	↓2	13
27	Rita	46	↓6	63
28	Constance	45	↓16	>100
29	Rose	45	↑19	37
30	Alice	42	↓4	25
31	Lucille	42	↑6	84
32	Theresa	41	↓5	77
33	Frances	40	↑3	19
34	Jacqueline	39	new	80
35	Janet	38	↓4	21
36	Evelyn	37	↓1	29
37	Norma	37	↓14	24
38	Louise	36	↑3	40
39	Virginia	36	↑3	15
40	Betty	35	↑5	2
41	Jane	35	↑6	48
42	Joyce	32	↓10	12
43	Carolyn	31	↑1	33
44	Elaine	30	new	54
45	Catherine	29	↑1	42
46	Florence	29	↓13	61
47	Jeanne	29	new	>100
48	Jeannette	29	new	>100
49	Lillian	29	↓15	52
50	Lois	28	↓11	20

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Robert	433	–	1
2	John	293	–	3
3	Richard	230	↑2	5
4	William	209	↓1	4
5	Joseph	189	↓1	10
6	Edward	144	↑3	13
7	Donald	141	↑3	6
8	James	141	↓2	2
9	Raymond	131	↓1	19
10	George	125	↓3	8
11	Charles	102	–	7
12	Anthony	90	–	52
13	Thomas	81	–	9
14	Paul	73	–	14
15	Arthur	70	↑3	29
16	David	67	↑6	12
17	Ronald	61	–	11
18	Francis	60	↑2	49
19	Frank	58	↓4	16
20	Norman	56	↑8	38
21	Albert	54	↓5	32
22	Roger	54	↓3	39
23	Alfred	51	↑6	64
24	Louis	45	↑2	40
25	Ernest	42	↑9	51
26	Henry	42	↓5	27
27	Eugene	41	↑4	24
28	Kenneth	40	↓4	15
29	Harold	38	↑8	18
30	Roland	37	↑2	>100
31	Peter	36	↓1	61
32	Frederick	35	↑3	77
33	Gerald	35	↑3	22
34	Walter	31	↓11	21
35	Normand	30	↑11	>100
36	Michael	29	↓9	47
37	Vincent	29	↓4	>100
38	Daniel	27	↑1	42
39	Ralph	26	↓1	31
40	Lawrence	25	↑2	34
41	Bernard	23	↓1	65
42	Earl	23	new	41
43	Gilbert	22	new	>100
44	Leo	22	↓19	86
45	Leonard	21	new	53
46	Andrew	19	new	76
47	Maurice	19	↓2	>100
48	Stanley	18	new	58
49	Angelo	16	new	>100
50	Carl	16	new	28

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