Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1945

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1945 were Carol for girls (243 babies) and Robert for boys (491). Carol ranked #5 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 11,796 babies born in Rhode Island in 1945 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1945

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

Meredith: 18 babies, 13.4× the national rate
Muriel: 17 babies, 10× the national rate
Claire: 28 babies, 7× the national rate
Lucille: 46 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Deborah: 27 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Maureen: 48 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Jeanne: 50 babies, 4× the national rate
Lorraine: 55 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Elaine: 98 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Suzanne: 63 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 17 babies, 46.9× the national rate
Gerard: 20 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Roland: 30 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Maurice: 16 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Leo: 27 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Francis: 54 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Raymond: 147 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Anthony: 82 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Frederick: 48 babies, 3.1× the national rate
Christopher: 16 babies, 3.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1945

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	Carol	243	–	5
2	Patricia	217	–	4
3	Mary	215	↑1	1
4	Barbara	214	↓1	3
5	Linda	155	↑2	2
6	Judith	152	↓1	9
7	Sandra	150	↓1	6
8	Susan	133	↑6	10
9	Kathleen	107	↑3	19
10	Nancy	104	↓2	7
11	Elaine	98	–	44
12	Joan	89	↓2	25
13	Janice	87	↑13	24
14	Donna	86	↑6	17
15	Elizabeth	82	↓6	26
16	Ann	79	↓1	39
17	Diane	76	↑8	22
18	Marilyn	75	↑9	27
19	Janet	74	↑5	20
20	Joyce	74	↓4	18
21	Margaret	70	↓8	15
22	Carolyn	65	↓5	12
23	Suzanne	63	↑23	68
24	Jane	62	↑10	36
25	Jean	61	↓3	38
26	Dorothy	59	↑4	21
27	Karen	55	↓6	16
28	Lorraine	55	↑9	87
29	Cheryl	54	↑7	32
30	Beverly	53	↓12	37
31	Jeanne	50	new	98
32	Sharon	50	↑10	8
33	Paula	49	↑8	67
34	Maureen	48	↓15	>100
35	Gail	47	↓4	52
36	Lucille	46	new	>100
37	Marie	46	↓14	49
38	Jacqueline	42	↓5	63
39	Anne	40	↑10	81
40	Gloria	39	↑4	23
41	Joanne	39	new	53
42	Phyllis	39	new	40
43	Carole	38	↑4	51
44	Cynthia	38	new	90
45	Shirley	38	↓10	14
46	Constance	37	↑4	>100
47	Virginia	37	↓9	28
48	Geraldine	36	new	56
49	Lois	36	new	48
50	Catherine	35	new	50

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	Robert	491	–	2
2	John	425	–	3
3	Richard	358	–	5
4	William	286	–	4
5	James	274	–	1
6	Joseph	222	–	14
7	David	216	–	6
8	Thomas	201	–	8
9	Ronald	156	↑2	10
10	Michael	148	↑2	9
11	Raymond	147	↑5	23
12	Paul	144	↑2	17
13	Edward	142	↓4	18
14	Donald	127	↑1	12
15	Charles	124	↓2	7
16	George	116	↓6	15
17	Kenneth	111	–	16
18	Dennis	101	↑1	19
19	Peter	84	↑1	38
20	Stephen	84	↑3	26
21	Anthony	82	↓3	46
22	Frank	79	↓1	21
23	Arthur	73	↓1	34
24	Albert	59	↑2	49
25	Daniel	57	↑2	24
26	Roger	57	↓1	22
27	Francis	54	↑1	76
28	Walter	53	↓4	27
29	Henry	51	↑6	37
30	Bruce	48	↑11	48
31	Frederick	48	↓2	77
32	Gerald	46	↓2	25
33	Louis	40	–	55
34	Ralph	40	↑13	44
35	Alan	39	↑1	52
36	Russell	37	↓5	64
37	Steven	37	new	43
38	Norman	36	↓4	65
39	Ernest	34	↓1	60
40	Lawrence	34	new	30
41	Gary	32	new	13
42	Philip	32	new	58
43	Alfred	31	↓6	88
44	Roland	30	↓12	>100
45	Douglas	28	new	29
46	Eugene	28	↓7	50
47	Wayne	28	new	35
48	Leo	27	↓3	>100
49	Brian	26	↓1	>100
50	Harold	22	↓6	28

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