What is the most popular baby name in Rhode Island?

Even on a thin SSA book, Rhode Island's cumulative #1 boy is John (29,923 births) and #1 girl is Mary (16,551 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in Rhode Island over the decades?

Rhode Island is TREND-LED today: latest-year leaders already differ from the all-time book on both sexes. Decade #1s moved from John/Mary (1910s) to Liam/Charlotte (2020s).

How many babies are named in Rhode Island?

Our data covers 653,001 name registrations in Rhode Island for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (QUIET volume stamp · #41 of 51 jurisdictions). The SSA records all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year, from 1910 through 2025.

State name profile

Most Popular Baby Names in Rhode Island

The boys' and girls' names most often given in Rhode Island, ranked by total recorded births in Social Security Administration state data, 1910–2025.

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

John
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 653,001
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Rhode Island's all-time #1 names are John for boys and Mary for girls, based on 653,001 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Rhode Island has recorded 653,001 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. John leads all boys with 29,923 births, while Mary tops the girls with 16,551. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

John #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
653,001 births recorded

Where Rhode Island sits by recorded name volume

Rhode Island: 1,222,600 SSA name registrations (QUIET · rank 41/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Rhode Island vs all states by SSA name registrations

Where this state's disclosed SSA name-state registration total sits among every tracked jurisdiction

1,222,600 41st of 51 higher than 10 of 51 states

Jurisdictions, banded by SSA name-registration count

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Source Social Security Administration state baby-name files · 2026-08-11

Rhode Island naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 16,551 cumulative SSA births in Rhode Island ≠ Charlotte #1 of 220 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; John is #1 of 29,923 cumulative SSA births in Rhode Island ≠ Noah #1 of 232 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Charlotte
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Noah
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: John
all-time boys #1, 2025 #9

Both sexes in Rhode Island already split latest-year vs all-time leaders, cumulative totals since 1910 and 2025 use different denominators.

Data updated Aug 2026

Both sexes trend-led

What a thin registry book shows for Rhode Island

Rhode Island sits in the lightest third of SSA name-state registration totals (1,222,600 · QUIET · #41/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are John (29,923 boy births) and Mary (16,551 girl births) across 653,001 top-50 registrations since 1910. Both sexes are TREND-LED: the latest 2025 #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 on each side. Boy top-50 share 423,972 vs 229,029 for girls.

In Rhode Island, the latest SSA year #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 for both boys and girls, a dual trend split against the long book.

Coverage notes on a thin state file

Decade-by-decade data for Rhode Island extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was John and the #1 girl name was Mary. By the 2020s, the top names had shifted to Liam for boys and Charlotte for girls.

SSA state files include any name appearing five or more times in a given state-year; lower-frequency names are suppressed for privacy. Figures are comparable across all 50 states and DC. Alternate spellings (Sophia vs Sofia) are separate names; middle names are not tracked. This page is for informational and research purposes.

Charlotte

49
Olivia

41
Amelia

39
Sophia

35
Ava

34
Isla

33
Isabella

33
Mia

31
Aurora

31
Maeve

28

What this shows Charlotte leads 2025 girls in Rhode Island; Mary remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Noah

67
Liam

64
Oliver

56
Theodore

52
Luca

48
Lucas

45
Benjamin

45
Henry

44
John

40
Owen

38

What this shows Noah leads 2025 boys in Rhode Island; John remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Mary

16,551
Barbara

8,653
Patricia

8,615
Elizabeth

8,433
Susan

7,423
Linda

7,135
Jennifer

6,533
Donna

6,050
Margaret

5,681
Nancy

5,666

What this shows Mary leads Rhode Island girls with 16,551 recorded births.

John

29,923
Robert

28,652
Michael

25,240
Joseph

20,905
David

19,615
William

19,421
James

18,978
Richard

15,841
Thomas

13,026
Paul

10,123

What this shows John leads Rhode Island boys with 29,923 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Rhode Island for each decade

How we calculated this

For each decade, we sum every year's SSA state-level birth count per name, then take the single name with the highest ten-year total for each sex. A name can lead a decade with a strong single peak year or with steady, moderate demand across all ten years, the total treats both the same way.

Decade	Top Boy	Births	Top Girl	Births
1910s	John	2,527	Mary	3,333
1920s	John	3,926	Mary	3,856
1930s	Robert	4,291	Barbara	2,252
1940s	Robert	5,461	Patricia	2,412
1950s	Robert	5,988	Susan	3,118
1960s	Michael	5,487	Lisa	3,216
1970s	Michael	3,860	Jennifer	2,926
1980s	Michael	3,537	Jessica	1,999
1990s	Michael	2,355	Ashley	1,159
2000s	Michael	1,133	Emily	872
2010s	Mason	662	Sophia	731
2020s	Liam	437	Charlotte	314

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	John	29,923
2	Robert	28,652
3	Michael	25,240
4	Joseph	20,905
5	David	19,615
6	William	19,421
7	James	18,978
8	Richard	15,841
9	Thomas	13,026
10	Paul	10,123
11	Christopher	9,977
12	Edward	9,643
13	Anthony	9,535
14	Raymond	8,737
15	Matthew	8,409
16	Daniel	8,327
17	Charles	8,318
18	George	8,261
19	Stephen	7,331
20	Steven	7,327
21	Peter	6,677
22	Donald	6,636
23	Kevin	6,497
24	Kenneth	6,209
25	Brian	6,098
26	Mark	5,868
27	Andrew	5,791
28	Nicholas	5,697
29	Ronald	5,640
30	Frank	5,427
31	Jason	4,890
32	Jeffrey	4,653
33	Joshua	4,627
34	Ryan	4,527
35	Arthur	4,297
36	Albert	4,163
37	Timothy	4,059
38	Scott	3,904
39	Henry	3,783
40	Jonathan	3,758
41	Benjamin	3,747
42	Eric	3,652
43	Alexander	3,602
44	Dennis	3,375
45	Louis	3,353
46	Walter	3,215
47	Justin	3,100
48	Francis	3,067
49	Jacob	3,053
50	Gary	3,018

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	16,551
2	Barbara	8,653
3	Patricia	8,615
4	Elizabeth	8,433
5	Susan	7,423
6	Linda	7,135
7	Jennifer	6,533
8	Donna	6,050
9	Margaret	5,681
10	Nancy	5,666
11	Dorothy	5,569
12	Lisa	5,516
13	Kathleen	5,428
14	Karen	5,391
15	Carol	5,149
16	Deborah	4,859
17	Helen	4,540
18	Jessica	4,462
19	Christine	4,375
20	Anna	4,321
21	Sandra	4,120
22	Sarah	4,072
23	Diane	4,062
24	Joan	3,947
25	Melissa	3,906
26	Michelle	3,900
27	Ann	3,868
28	Catherine	3,747
29	Emily	3,621
30	Marie	3,529
31	Cheryl	3,390
32	Kimberly	3,387
33	Nicole	3,359
34	Stephanie	3,280
35	Amanda	3,186
36	Alice	3,146
37	Ashley	3,141
38	Judith	3,089
39	Ruth	3,042
40	Rose	3,018
41	Rita	3,013
42	Debra	2,909
43	Doris	2,901
44	Cynthia	2,874
45	Jean	2,836
46	Theresa	2,802
47	Lori	2,679
48	Laura	2,638
49	Katherine	2,627
50	Rebecca	2,590

Read with Rhode Island

Nearest ABS peers for a thin-registry state (Rhode Island · QUIET · TREND-LED).

QUIET TREND-LED

North Dakota · QUIET

1,139,287 SSA registrations (near-scale with Rhode Island; ABS Δ 83,313). Leader lane may differ from Rhode Island's TREND-LED.

South Dakota · QUIET

1,130,783 SSA registrations (near-scale with Rhode Island; ABS Δ 91,817). Leader lane may differ from Rhode Island's TREND-LED.

Idaho · QUIET

1,322,199 SSA registrations (near-scale with Rhode Island; ABS Δ 99,599). Leader lane may differ from Rhode Island's TREND-LED.

Nevada · QUIET

1,113,187 SSA registrations (near-scale with Rhode Island; ABS Δ 109,413). Leader lane may differ from Rhode Island's TREND-LED.

New Mexico (volume-lane contrast)

Near Rhode Island on SSA registration volume yet stamps SPARSE vs QUIET.

Why names rise and fall

Rhode Island stamps QUIET · TREND-LED - read the matching SSA methodology before quoting state leaders.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files, 1910–2025 (ssa.gov).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

Read our methodology - thin-registry states: how small SSA state files are compared without inventing suppressed names.

According to the Social Security Administration, as of June 2026 this profile draws directly on the agency's state-level public-use files, which document 6,696,687 state-level records across all 51 reporting jurisdictions spanning 1910-2025.