Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1912

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1912 were Mary for girls (62 babies) and John for boys (44). Social Security records list 1,351 babies born in Hawaii in 1912 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1912

Names given at least 15 times in Hawaii that year and at least twice as common as in the US as a whole.

Girls

Rose: 32 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Julia: 16 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Alice: 33 babies, 4× the national rate
Annie: 15 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Lillian: 16 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Boys

Manuel: 16 babies, 24× the national rate
Richard: 22 babies, 3.7× the national rate
Thomas: 23 babies, 2.7× the national rate
Henry: 21 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Harry: 16 babies, 2.4× the national rate
Harold: 16 babies, 2.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1912

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	Mary	62	–	1
2	Alice	33	↑3	11
3	Helen	32	↓1	2
4	Rose	32	–	15
5	Margaret	26	↓2	4
6	Elizabeth	19	↑19	8
7	Julia	16	↑13	44
8	Lillian	16	↓2	14
9	Annie	15	↑4	27
10	Dorothy	15	↑8	3
11	Agnes	14	↑21	40
12	Mildred	14	↑38	6
13	Shizuko	14	↓1	>100
14	Florence	13	–	12
15	Elsie	12	↑21	42
16	Esther	12	new	33
17	Ethel	12	↓7	18
18	Beatrice	11	↑15	37
19	Katherine	11	↑11	53
20	Haruko	10	↑19	>100
21	Hazel	10	↑26	25
22	Kimiko	10	new	>100
23	Lily	10	↑17	>100
24	Masako	10	↑18	>100
25	Ruth	10	new	5
26	Doris	9	new	48
27	Emily	9	↓20	>100
28	Sarah	9	↓20	41
29	Shizue	9	↓7	>100
30	Thelma	9	new	26
31	Violet	9	↓14	83
32	Anna	8	↑11	7
33	Catherine	8	new	21
34	Cecilia	8	new	>100
35	Chiyoko	8	new	>100
36	Edith	8	new	31
37	Edna	8	↑9	16
38	Gladys	8	↓19	19
39	Irene	8	↓28	22
40	Nancy	8	new	>100
41	Betty	7	new	66
42	Eleanor	7	↓18	39
43	Emma	7	↓6	35
44	Ida	7	new	45
45	Marie	7	↓29	10
46	Yoshiko	7	new	>100
47	Adeline	6	new	>100
48	Caroline	6	↓3	>100
49	Clara	6	new	34
50	Ellen	6	↓15	86

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1911	US rank
1	John	44	–	1
2	George	31	↑1	6
3	Robert	26	↑17	4
4	Thomas	23	↑8	10
5	Edward	22	↑3	8
6	Richard	22	↑8	19
7	Henry	21	↓2	12
8	James	21	↑1	3
9	Charles	20	↓3	7
10	Joseph	20	↓8	5
11	William	20	↓7	2
12	Harold	16	↑6	13
13	Harry	16	↓6	16
14	Manuel	16	↓3	>100
15	Albert	13	↑6	17
16	David	13	↓3	29
17	Frank	12	↓7	9
18	Masao	12	new	>100
19	Walter	12	↑5	11
20	Alfred	11	↓4	40
21	Francis	10	↓4	35
22	Louis	10	new	20
23	Arthur	9	new	15
24	Herbert	9	↓2	39
25	Joe	9	new	36
26	Masato	9	new	>100
27	Mitsuo	9	new	>100
28	Shigeru	9	new	>100
29	Ernest	8	new	32
30	Paul	8	new	14
31	Peter	8	new	48
32	Raymond	8	new	18
33	Takeo	8	new	>100
34	Alexander	7	new	97
35	Clarence	7	new	21
36	Hideo	7	new	>100
37	Masaru	7	new	>100
38	Hiroshi	6	new	>100
39	Kazuo	6	new	>100
40	Kiyoshi	6	new	>100
41	Ralph	6	new	23
42	Samuel	6	↓27	30
43	Toshio	6	new	>100
44	Yoshio	6	new	>100
45	Fred	5	new	26
46	Jack	5	↓23	28
47	Kenneth	5	new	33
48	Lawrence	5	↓29	38
49	Stanley	5	new	43
50	Tadashi	5	new	>100

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