Popular baby names in Rhode Island, 2020
The most popular baby names in Rhode Island in 2020 were Olivia for girls (62 babies) and Liam for boys (79). Social Security records list 5,973 babies born in Rhode Island in 2020 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.
Names that stood out in Rhode Island in 2020
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
- Eliana: 28 babies, 4.3× the national rate
- Vivian: 18 babies, 4.1× the national rate
- Josephine: 16 babies, 3.3× the national rate
- Avery: 33 babies, 3× the national rate
- Grace: 27 babies, 3× the national rate
- Nora: 27 babies, 3× the national rate
- Lily: 25 babies, 3× the national rate
- Isla: 22 babies, 3× the national rate
- Valentina: 16 babies, 3× the national rate
- Penelope: 29 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Boys
- Lorenzo: 21 babies, 4.4× the national rate
- Enzo: 18 babies, 4.1× the national rate
- Julian: 50 babies, 3.4× the national rate
- Jacob: 60 babies, 3.3× the national rate
- Connor: 27 babies, 3.1× the national rate
- Cole: 17 babies, 3.1× the national rate
- Luca: 28 babies, 3× the national rate
- Brayden: 19 babies, 3× the national rate
- Jaxson: 24 babies, 2.9× the national rate
- Cameron: 28 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Rhode Island, 2020
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2019 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Olivia | 62 | ↑1 | 1 |
| 2 | Charlotte | 54 | ↓1 | 5 |
| 3 | Emma | 53 | ↑3 | 2 |
| 4 | Isabella | 51 | ↑3 | 7 |
| 5 | Amelia | 50 | – | 6 |
| 6 | Ava | 47 | ↓2 | 3 |
| 7 | Mia | 46 | ↑14 | 8 |
| 8 | Sophia | 41 | ↓5 | 4 |
| 9 | Avery | 33 | ↑13 | 19 |
| 10 | Mila | 30 | ↑14 | 20 |
| 11 | Ella | 29 | ↑8 | 15 |
| 12 | Penelope | 29 | ↑16 | 26 |
| 13 | Abigail | 28 | ↓3 | 12 |
| 14 | Eliana | 28 | ↑11 | 53 |
| 15 | Aria | 27 | ↑2 | 27 |
| 16 | Grace | 27 | ↓8 | 28 |
| 17 | Luna | 27 | ↑13 | 14 |
| 18 | Nora | 27 | ↓4 | 30 |
| 19 | Scarlett | 27 | ↓3 | 21 |
| 20 | Emily | 25 | ↑19 | 18 |
| 21 | Evelyn | 25 | ↓1 | 9 |
| 22 | Lily | 25 | ↑24 | 35 |
| 23 | Riley | 24 | ↑6 | 33 |
| 24 | Gianna | 23 | new | 13 |
| 25 | Harper | 23 | ↓13 | 10 |
| 26 | Isla | 22 | ↑11 | 44 |
| 27 | Stella | 22 | ↑11 | 42 |
| 28 | Madison | 21 | ↓19 | 23 |
| 29 | Sofia | 21 | ↓14 | 17 |
| 30 | Camila | 20 | ↓17 | 11 |
| 31 | Emilia | 20 | ↓8 | 41 |
| 32 | Natalie | 20 | ↓1 | 51 |
| 33 | Victoria | 20 | ↑2 | 34 |
| 34 | Zoey | 20 | ↓2 | 32 |
| 35 | Eleanor | 19 | ↑1 | 22 |
| 36 | Layla | 19 | ↓10 | 24 |
| 37 | Aurora | 18 | ↓4 | 36 |
| 38 | Elizabeth | 18 | ↓20 | 16 |
| 39 | Hazel | 18 | ↑3 | 31 |
| 40 | Vivian | 18 | ↑4 | >100 |
| 41 | Brooklyn | 17 | new | 54 |
| 42 | Everly | 16 | new | 43 |
| 43 | Josephine | 16 | new | 87 |
| 44 | Lillian | 16 | new | 46 |
| 45 | Valentina | 16 | ↑5 | 73 |
| 46 | Elena | 15 | new | 55 |
| 47 | Gabriella | 15 | ↓6 | 77 |
| 48 | Ivy | 15 | new | 57 |
| 49 | Willow | 15 | new | 48 |
| 50 | Anna | 14 | new | 68 |
| Rank | Name | Babies | vs 2019 | US rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liam | 79 | ↑3 | 1 |
| 2 | Noah | 69 | ↓1 | 2 |
| 3 | Jacob | 60 | ↑8 | 15 |
| 4 | Benjamin | 50 | ↑2 | 7 |
| 5 | Julian | 50 | ↓2 | 34 |
| 6 | Oliver | 44 | ↓1 | 3 |
| 7 | Elijah | 43 | ↑8 | 4 |
| 8 | Lucas | 42 | ↓6 | 8 |
| 9 | Mason | 42 | ↑8 | 11 |
| 10 | James | 41 | ↑4 | 6 |
| 11 | Jack | 40 | ↑12 | 21 |
| 12 | William | 38 | ↑1 | 5 |
| 13 | Logan | 36 | ↓5 | 16 |
| 14 | Owen | 36 | ↑2 | 22 |
| 15 | Theodore | 36 | ↑19 | 23 |
| 16 | Jackson | 35 | ↓9 | 17 |
| 17 | Samuel | 33 | ↑16 | 25 |
| 18 | Alexander | 32 | ↓9 | 10 |
| 19 | Joseph | 32 | ↑12 | 26 |
| 20 | Dylan | 31 | ↑9 | 42 |
| 21 | Henry | 31 | ↑5 | 9 |
| 22 | Anthony | 29 | ↓2 | 41 |
| 23 | John | 29 | ↑7 | 27 |
| 24 | Matthew | 29 | ↓14 | 30 |
| 25 | Michael | 29 | ↓13 | 12 |
| 26 | Thomas | 29 | ↓2 | 45 |
| 27 | Adrian | 28 | ↑23 | 58 |
| 28 | Cameron | 28 | ↓10 | 65 |
| 29 | Christopher | 28 | ↑19 | 47 |
| 30 | Ezra | 28 | new | 44 |
| 31 | Isaac | 28 | ↑8 | 39 |
| 32 | Luca | 28 | new | 67 |
| 33 | Connor | 27 | ↑12 | 78 |
| 34 | Ethan | 27 | ↓7 | 13 |
| 35 | Grayson | 26 | ↓10 | 35 |
| 36 | Nolan | 26 | ↓4 | 61 |
| 37 | Charles | 25 | new | 46 |
| 38 | Levi | 25 | ↓19 | 18 |
| 39 | Carter | 24 | new | 33 |
| 40 | Gabriel | 24 | ↓19 | 38 |
| 41 | Jaxson | 24 | new | 85 |
| 42 | Jayden | 24 | ↓5 | 37 |
| 43 | Sebastian | 24 | – | 19 |
| 44 | Joshua | 23 | ↓3 | 53 |
| 45 | Aiden | 22 | ↓7 | 24 |
| 46 | Colton | 22 | new | 66 |
| 47 | Greyson | 22 | ↓12 | 81 |
| 48 | Ryan | 22 | ↑1 | 57 |
| 49 | Daniel | 21 | ↓3 | 14 |
| 50 | Lorenzo | 21 | new | >100 |
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