Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 1950

The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 1950 were Linda for girls (395 babies) and Robert for boys (550). Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 15,292 babies born in Rhode Island in 1950 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 1950

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

Jeannine: 18 babies, 13.3× the national rate
Muriel: 15 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Claire: 34 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Claudette: 15 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Maureen: 72 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Pauline: 30 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Lorraine: 48 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Jeanne: 52 babies, 3.3× the national rate
Elaine: 77 babies, 3× the national rate
Louise: 41 babies, 3× the national rate

Boys

Normand: 26 babies, 65.4× the national rate
Bradford: 16 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Roland: 30 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Gerard: 24 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Peter: 141 babies, 3.8× the national rate
Leo: 24 babies, 3.5× the national rate
Maurice: 18 babies, 3.4× the national rate
Raymond: 162 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Paul: 278 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Francis: 52 babies, 2.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 1950

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1949	US rank
1	Linda	395	–	1
2	Susan	256	↑1	5
3	Patricia	244	↓1	3
4	Mary	226	–	2
5	Kathleen	207	↑1	10
6	Donna	195	↑2	13
7	Nancy	194	↓2	6
8	Barbara	187	↑1	4
9	Deborah	183	↑4	7
10	Carol	179	↓3	9
11	Diane	138	–	16
12	Sandra	137	↓2	8
13	Judith	121	↓1	21
14	Elizabeth	114	↑12	24
15	Karen	113	–	12
16	Margaret	111	↓2	15
17	Sharon	111	↓1	11
18	Gail	98	↑10	42
19	Christine	97	↑4	28
20	Janice	97	↓3	22
21	Joyce	86	↑1	27
22	Cynthia	85	↑7	23
23	Jane	80	↑4	39
24	Elaine	77	↑7	60
25	Janet	77	↓1	18
26	Joan	77	↓7	40
27	Cheryl	76	↓7	29
28	Paula	75	↓3	54
29	Maureen	72	↑4	89
30	Ann	70	↓9	45
31	Pamela	69	↑1	17
32	Suzanne	66	↓14	71
33	Catherine	63	↑5	34
34	Jean	62	↓4	48
35	Shirley	56	↑6	19
36	Anne	54	↑7	84
37	Denise	54	↑10	82
38	Joanne	53	↓2	67
39	Jeanne	52	↓4	95
40	Marie	50	↓1	72
41	Carolyn	48	↑3	20
42	Lorraine	48	↓5	>100
43	Dorothy	47	↓3	35
44	Jacqueline	47	new	55
45	Marilyn	46	↑1	37
46	Beverly	45	↓12	31
47	Helen	41	new	50
48	Louise	41	new	>100
49	Martha	36	new	32
50	Brenda	35	new	14

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1949	US rank
1	Robert	550	–	2
2	John	538	–	3
3	Richard	376	↑1	7
4	Michael	345	↑3	4
5	David	343	↑1	5
6	William	306	↓3	6
7	James	301	↓2	1
8	Paul	278	↑3	18
9	Joseph	253	↓1	13
10	Thomas	241	↓1	8
11	Stephen	202	↓1	19
12	Ronald	167	–	12
13	Dennis	166	↑2	17
14	Raymond	162	–	31
15	Donald	154	↑3	14
16	Steven	147	↑6	16
17	Peter	141	↑3	37
18	Kenneth	139	↓2	15
19	Edward	136	↓2	22
20	Charles	128	↓7	9
21	George	112	↓2	20
22	Bruce	92	↑4	26
23	Anthony	90	↓2	36
24	Gary	87	↑4	10
25	Daniel	77	↓2	21
26	Frank	70	↑1	29
27	Wayne	70	↑13	35
28	Alan	68	↓4	41
29	Roger	66	–	27
30	Mark	62	↑1	23
31	Arthur	58	↓6	46
32	Kevin	58	↑17	73
33	Jeffrey	57	↑6	43
34	Louis	57	↓1	66
35	Francis	52	↓1	86
36	Gerald	52	–	34
37	Albert	51	↓7	56
38	Douglas	50	↑6	28
39	Russell	49	↑2	67
40	Frederick	48	↑7	75
41	Lawrence	46	↓9	33
42	Walter	45	↓4	40
43	Carl	42	↑5	44
44	Gregory	42	↑1	25
45	Brian	39	↓10	79
46	Ralph	37	↑4	52
47	Philip	36	↓10	53
48	Ernest	35	new	81
49	Vincent	35	↓3	>100
50	Norman	33	new	90

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