Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Rhode Island, 1912

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	266
2	Helen	111
3	Dorothy	88
4	Margaret	78
5	Anna	72
6	Alice	65
7	Rose	57
8	Ruth	53
9	Lillian	51
10	Florence	50
11	Mildred	47
12	Elizabeth	44
13	Catherine	40
14	Doris	39
15	Frances	36
16	Gertrude	34
17	Irene	33
18	Marie	30
19	Emma	29
19	Evelyn	29
19	Josephine	29
19	Marion	29
23	Beatrice	28
23	Edith	28
23	Esther	28
26	Grace	27
27	Eleanor	26
27	Louise	26
29	Edna	25
30	Eva	22
30	Jennie	22
32	Agnes	21
32	Hazel	21
34	Loretta	19
34	Virginia	19
36	Marguerite	18
37	Bertha	17
38	Elsie	16
38	Theresa	16
38	Viola	16
41	Ann	15
41	Anne	15
41	Blanche	15
41	Emily	15
41	Jean	15
41	Martha	15
47	Barbara	14
47	Gladys	14
47	Jeannette	14
47	Katherine	14

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	172
2	Joseph	123
3	William	117
4	Edward	80
5	James	75
6	Charles	69
7	George	68
8	Thomas	55
9	Albert	53
10	Robert	52
11	Raymond	48
12	Anthony	45
12	Frank	45
14	Arthur	40
15	Harold	35
15	Walter	35
17	Louis	33
18	Henry	32
19	Ernest	30
19	Francis	30
21	Leo	25
22	Ralph	24
23	Michael	23
24	Alfred	19
25	Frederick	18
25	Harry	18
27	Paul	17
27	Vincent	17
29	Antonio	15
29	Fred	15
29	Milton	15
32	Norman	14
32	Peter	14
32	Richard	14
35	Everett	13
35	Howard	13
35	Samuel	13
38	Philip	12
39	Angelo	11
39	Daniel	11
39	Eugene	11
39	Kenneth	11
39	Manuel	11
39	Nicholas	11
39	Russell	11
39	Salvatore	11
39	Stanley	11
39	Theodore	11
49	Edmund	10
49	Herbert	10