Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1935

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1935 were Barbara for girls (237 babies) and Robert for boys (424). Barbara ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 8,368 babies born in Rhode Island in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1935

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: 73 babies, 16.4× the national rate
Jeannine: 17 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Muriel: 28 babies, 8.9× the national rate
Jeannette: 31 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Constance: 43 babies, 6× the national rate
Madeline: 16 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Marguerite: 17 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Maureen: 25 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Sheila: 22 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Theresa: 41 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 35 babies, 54.9× the national rate
Armand: 17 babies, 25.1× the national rate
Rene: 16 babies, 23.7× the national rate
Gerard: 18 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Roland: 33 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Anthony: 78 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Nicholas: 15 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Maurice: 19 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Raymond: 138 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Alfred: 43 babies, 3.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Barbara	237	↑1	3
2	Joan	187	↓1	7
3	Shirley	175	↑1	2
4	Mary	172	↓1	1
5	Patricia	139	↑1	5
6	Dorothy	111	↓1	6
7	Dolores	85	↑1	26
8	Claire	73	↓1	>100
9	Ann	70	↑6	30
10	Marie	70	↑4	33
11	Helen	68	↓1	10
12	Jean	68	↑1	18
13	Beverly	66	↓1	20
14	Carol	64	↑5	11
15	Margaret	62	↓4	8
16	Anna	60	↑5	34
17	Elizabeth	59	↑1	17
18	Nancy	54	↓9	9
19	Doris	53	↓3	13
20	Elaine	49	↑24	51
21	Carolyn	48	↑22	28
22	Joyce	44	↑20	12
23	Constance	43	↑5	>100
24	Ruth	43	↑2	15
25	Eleanor	42	↓2	48
26	Frances	42	↑7	19
27	Rose	42	↑2	37
28	Irene	41	↓6	52
29	Theresa	41	↑3	86
30	Alice	40	–	25
31	Marilyn	40	↓6	14
32	Jane	39	↑9	43
33	Marjorie	39	new	46
34	Norma	38	↑3	29
35	Rita	38	↓8	63
36	Gloria	37	↓16	32
37	Jacqueline	35	↓3	79
38	Lorraine	35	↓14	68
39	Sandra	34	new	50
40	Pauline	33	↓23	80
41	Janice	31	new	47
42	Jeannette	31	↑6	>100
43	Lois	31	↑7	21
44	Lucille	31	↓13	85
45	June	30	new	55
46	Louise	30	↓8	45
47	Arlene	29	new	59
48	Evelyn	29	↓12	31
49	Virginia	29	↓10	16
50	Muriel	28	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Robert	424	–	1
2	John	300	–	3
3	Richard	258	–	5
4	William	224	–	4
5	Joseph	181	–	10
6	Donald	158	↑1	7
7	James	155	↑1	2
8	Raymond	138	↑1	17
9	George	128	↑1	8
10	Edward	112	↓4	13
11	Charles	96	–	6
12	Thomas	82	↑1	9
13	Paul	79	↑1	14
14	Anthony	78	↓2	52
15	Ronald	73	↑2	12
16	Albert	71	↑5	31
17	Roger	67	↑5	36
18	Frank	59	↑1	16
19	Arthur	54	↓4	29
20	Norman	54	–	38
21	David	53	↓5	11
22	Francis	47	↓4	53
23	Kenneth	46	↑5	15
24	Henry	45	↑2	27
25	Michael	44	↑11	41
26	Alfred	43	↓3	63
27	Louis	42	↓3	42
28	Ernest	41	↓3	55
29	Walter	41	↑5	23
30	Ralph	36	↑9	32
31	Normand	35	↑4	>100
32	Roland	33	↓2	>100
33	Eugene	31	↓6	26
34	Harold	29	↓5	20
35	Frederick	28	↓3	73
36	Peter	28	↓5	59
37	Daniel	26	↑1	43
38	Lawrence	26	↑2	35
39	Leo	26	↑5	92
40	Gerald	24	↓7	21
41	Vincent	22	↓4	>100
42	Gordon	21	new	70
43	Harry	19	new	37
44	Howard	19	new	39
45	Maurice	19	↑2	>100
46	Gerard	18	new	>100
47	Philip	18	new	65
48	Russell	18	new	68
49	Armand	17	new	>100
50	Gilbert	17	↓7	>100

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