Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1936

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1936 were Barbara for girls (212 babies) and Robert for boys (442). Barbara ranked #3 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 8,314 babies born in Rhode Island in 1936 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1936

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: 69 babies, 16.1× the national rate
Therese: 16 babies, 15.5× the national rate
Muriel: 21 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Maureen: 37 babies, 7× the national rate
Madeline: 17 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Pauline: 64 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Jeanne: 32 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Jeannette: 18 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Constance: 31 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Lorraine: 52 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 19 babies, 41.2× the national rate
Armand: 15 babies, 17.7× the national rate
Gerard: 22 babies, 11.6× the national rate
Roland: 36 babies, 6× the national rate
Everett: 20 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Anthony: 75 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Vincent: 29 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Leo: 31 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Maurice: 17 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Raymond: 124 babies, 3.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1936

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Barbara	212	–	3
2	Joan	185	–	7
3	Mary	167	↑1	1
4	Patricia	132	↑1	5
5	Shirley	128	↓2	2
6	Dorothy	94	–	6
7	Ann	87	↑2	28
8	Carol	87	↑6	10
9	Claire	69	↓1	>100
10	Dolores	67	↓3	30
11	Jean	67	↑1	20
12	Elizabeth	65	↑5	18
13	Pauline	64	↑27	82
14	Nancy	63	↑4	8
15	Beverly	60	↓2	17
16	Marilyn	58	↑15	13
17	Margaret	57	↓2	9
18	Helen	56	↓7	11
19	Marie	56	↓9	33
20	Lorraine	52	↑18	76
21	Rita	52	↑14	69
22	Anna	50	↓6	36
23	Carolyn	47	↓2	23
24	Doris	47	↓5	15
25	Janet	47	new	21
26	Joyce	46	↓4	12
27	Virginia	46	↑22	14
28	Elaine	45	↓8	50
29	Eleanor	45	↓4	47
30	Ruth	44	↓6	16
31	Evelyn	42	↑17	34
32	Alice	41	↓2	27
33	Irene	41	↓5	57
34	Jane	39	↓2	42
35	Frances	37	↓9	19
36	Maureen	37	new	>100
37	Gloria	36	↓1	32
38	Janice	35	↑3	31
39	Judith	34	new	43
40	Catherine	33	new	44
41	Lois	33	↑2	26
42	Jeanne	32	new	>100
43	Lucille	32	↑1	92
44	Norma	32	↓10	29
45	Theresa	32	↓16	88
46	Constance	31	↓23	>100
47	Rose	30	↓20	37
48	June	27	↓3	62
49	Marjorie	26	↓16	49
50	Anne	25	new	89

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1935	US rank
1	Robert	442	–	1
2	John	291	–	3
3	Richard	243	–	5
4	Joseph	200	↑1	11
5	William	198	↓1	4
6	James	156	↑1	2
7	Donald	139	↓1	7
8	Edward	137	↑2	13
9	George	127	–	9
10	Raymond	124	↓2	17
11	Thomas	101	↑1	8
12	Charles	86	↓1	6
13	Ronald	80	↑2	12
14	David	78	↑7	10
15	Anthony	75	↓1	48
16	Paul	74	↓3	15
17	Frank	69	↑1	16
18	Arthur	68	↑1	30
19	Roger	67	↓2	35
20	Albert	57	↓4	34
21	Norman	50	↓1	43
22	Walter	50	↑7	26
23	Francis	48	↓1	50
24	Louis	47	↑3	44
25	Michael	39	–	33
26	Gerald	38	↑14	19
27	Peter	37	↑9	56
28	Ernest	36	–	55
29	Roland	36	↑3	>100
30	Henry	34	↓6	28
31	Alfred	33	↓5	60
32	Kenneth	31	↓9	14
33	Leo	31	↑6	94
34	Vincent	29	↑7	>100
35	Harold	28	↓1	21
36	Ralph	27	↓6	31
37	Daniel	24	–	41
38	Eugene	23	↓5	29
39	Frederick	23	↓4	70
40	Gerard	22	↑6	>100
41	Carl	21	new	27
42	Philip	21	↑5	63
43	Stephen	21	new	99
44	Everett	20	new	>100
45	Lawrence	20	↓7	37
46	Normand	19	↓15	>100
47	Bernard	18	new	68
48	Fred	18	new	36
49	Russell	18	↓1	69
50	Bruce	17	new	73

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