Name Yearbook

Top baby names in Rhode Island, 1916

Recorded as girls

Rank	Name	Babies
1	Mary	414
2	Helen	193
3	Dorothy	173
4	Anna	154
5	Margaret	121
6	Ruth	120
7	Rose	109
8	Alice	107
9	Rita	101
10	Doris	98
11	Lillian	90
12	Elizabeth	84
13	Evelyn	78
14	Florence	77
15	Frances	72
15	Josephine	72
17	Mildred	69
18	Eleanor	68
19	Marie	63
20	Irene	62
21	Louise	60
22	Beatrice	51
22	Gertrude	51
22	Virginia	51
25	Marion	49
26	Jennie	48
27	Barbara	46
28	Grace	45
29	Edith	42
29	Edna	42
31	Theresa	41
32	Catherine	39
33	Eva	37
33	Gladys	37
35	Agnes	36
35	Angelina	36
37	Elsie	34
38	Hazel	33
38	Ida	33
38	Jeannette	33
41	Viola	32
42	Anne	31
43	Bertha	30
43	Ethel	30
45	Anita	29
46	Lucy	28
46	Sophie	28
48	Ann	26
48	Julia	26
48	Muriel	26

Recorded as boys

Rank	Name	Babies
1	John	313
2	Joseph	304
3	William	191
4	James	130
5	Edward	128
6	Frank	127
6	George	127
8	Charles	120
9	Albert	116
10	Raymond	107
11	Anthony	95
12	Robert	92
13	Arthur	91
14	Thomas	86
15	Walter	80
16	Louis	76
17	Henry	74
18	Alfred	67
19	Harold	53
20	Ernest	51
21	Michael	50
22	Richard	49
23	Leo	48
24	Peter	47
25	Vincent	46
26	Frederick	44
27	Norman	42
28	Stanley	39
29	Antonio	37
29	Francis	37
31	Paul	32
32	Eugene	30
33	Donald	29
33	Manuel	29
35	Ralph	27
35	Russell	27
37	David	26
38	Herbert	25
39	Earl	23
39	Howard	23
41	Angelo	22
41	Fred	22
41	Roland	22
44	Andrew	21
44	Everett	21
44	Harry	21
44	Milton	21
44	Samuel	21
49	Carl	20
49	Edmund	20