Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1938

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1938 were Barbara for girls (223 babies) and Robert for boys (492). Barbara ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 8,772 babies born in Rhode Island in 1938 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1938

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, 16.5× the national rate
Jeannine: 15 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Muriel: 22 babies, 8× the national rate
Maureen: 41 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Angela: 17 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Jeannette: 24 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Jeanne: 34 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Pauline: 54 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Lorraine: 50 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Constance: 37 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 22 babies, 37.7× the national rate
Armand: 15 babies, 22.6× the national rate
Roland: 30 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Anthony: 94 babies, 5× the national rate
Nicholas: 19 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Leo: 36 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Raymond: 159 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Maurice: 18 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Alfred: 41 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Francis: 53 babies, 3.3× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1938

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Barbara	223	–	2
2	Mary	164	↑1	1
3	Patricia	148	↑1	3
4	Carol	147	↑1	6
5	Joan	142	↓3	10
6	Nancy	100	↑5	7
7	Ann	80	↑2	32
8	Beverly	80	↑6	18
9	Dorothy	78	↑1	8
10	Elaine	77	↑17	42
11	Judith	74	↑17	12
12	Shirley	74	↓5	5
13	Claire	69	↑9	>100
14	Margaret	67	↓8	9
15	Elizabeth	65	↓3	17
16	Marie	65	↓8	37
17	Jean	56	↓4	27
18	Pauline	54	↓1	97
19	Irene	51	↑18	72
20	Marilyn	51	↑14	19
21	Lorraine	50	↑12	93
22	Rita	48	↑8	74
23	Carolyn	47	↑1	15
24	Helen	47	↓9	13
25	Sandra	47	↓2	14
26	Dolores	45	↓10	43
27	Joyce	45	↓9	11
28	Frances	43	↓9	23
29	Gail	43	new	77
30	Janice	41	↓9	24
31	Maureen	41	↑16	>100
32	Alice	39	↑3	29
33	Gloria	39	↑3	36
34	Janet	38	↓9	16
35	Constance	37	↓6	>100
36	Jane	37	↓4	44
37	Eleanor	36	↑3	60
38	Virginia	35	↓12	22
39	Anne	34	new	84
40	Carole	34	↑2	46
41	Jeanne	34	new	>100
42	Marion	34	new	>100
43	Norma	34	new	34
44	Ruth	34	↓5	21
45	Doris	32	↓25	25
46	Betty	31	new	4
47	Evelyn	29	↑1	38
48	June	29	new	79
49	Arlene	28	new	63
50	Jacqueline	28	↓6	69

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Robert	492	–	1
2	John	294	–	3
3	Richard	237	↑1	5
4	Joseph	221	↑1	12
5	William	193	↓2	4
6	James	189	–	2
7	Raymond	159	↑4	20
8	George	126	↑2	11
9	Donald	125	↓1	7
10	David	116	↓1	8
11	Thomas	116	↑5	9
12	Edward	113	↓5	13
13	Charles	97	↓1	6
14	Anthony	94	↑1	46
15	Ronald	94	↓1	10
16	Paul	78	↓3	15
17	Kenneth	59	↑9	14
18	Arthur	58	–	32
19	Roger	58	↓2	31
20	Frank	54	↓1	18
21	Peter	54	↑3	48
22	Francis	53	↑1	51
23	Albert	50	↓3	37
24	Louis	48	↑1	47
25	Walter	48	↓3	26
26	Michael	46	↑1	21
27	Gerald	42	↓6	19
28	Norman	42	↑2	43
29	Alfred	41	–	69
30	Henry	39	↓2	30
31	Leo	36	–	>100
32	Eugene	34	↑6	33
33	Ralph	31	↑2	35
34	Ernest	30	↑3	55
35	Frederick	30	↑5	71
36	Roland	30	↓4	>100
37	Harold	29	↓1	23
38	Stephen	26	↓5	74
39	Russell	23	↑10	70
40	Vincent	23	↓6	>100
41	Daniel	22	↓2	39
42	Normand	22	–	>100
43	Harry	20	↓2	44
44	Leonard	20	↓1	57
45	Alan	19	↑3	91
46	Bernard	19	new	75
47	Fred	19	↓1	38
48	Nicholas	19	new	>100
49	Philip	19	new	64
50	Lawrence	18	↓3	36

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