Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1915

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1915 were Mary for girls (92 babies) and George for boys (86). George ranked #6 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 3,623 babies born in Hawaii in 1915 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1915

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

Girls

Tsuruko: 17 babies, 449.8× the national rate
Yoshiko: 31 babies, 399.6× the national rate
Shizue: 30 babies, 386.7× the national rate
Haruko: 23 babies, 330.4× the national rate
Masako: 21 babies, 310.5× the national rate
Shizuko: 17 babies, 305.2× the national rate
Chiyoko: 20 babies, 304.7× the national rate
Violet: 26 babies, 4.7× the national rate
Hilda: 17 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Emily: 17 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Boys

Yoshio: 21 babies, 243.1× the national rate
Masao: 20 babies, 242.5× the national rate
Hiroshi: 19 babies, 193.6× the national rate
Manuel: 36 babies, 18.8× the national rate
David: 34 babies, 3.2× the national rate
Daniel: 17 babies, 2.9× the national rate
Richard: 51 babies, 2.8× the national rate
Herbert: 22 babies, 2.6× the national rate
Henry: 48 babies, 2.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1915

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	Mary	92	–	1
2	Helen	60	–	2
3	Dorothy	53	↑2	3
4	Alice	51	↓1	13
5	Margaret	50	↑1	4
6	Rose	42	↑1	16
7	Florence	41	↑1	14
8	Yoshiko	31	↑18	>100
9	Elsie	30	↑9	41
10	Shizue	30	↑15	>100
11	Agnes	29	–	45
12	Annie	28	↑24	36
13	Elizabeth	27	↓9	8
14	Beatrice	26	–	37
15	Violet	26	–	82
16	Betty	25	↑32	53
17	Clara	24	↑11	38
18	Ethel	24	↑5	23
19	Lillian	24	↓7	15
20	Haruko	23	↑9	>100
21	Mildred	23	↓12	6
22	Masako	21	↓6	>100
23	Chiyoko	20	↑21	>100
24	Gladys	20	–	21
25	Katherine	18	↑15	49
26	Edna	17	↑11	20
27	Eleanor	17	↓10	28
28	Emily	17	↑6	99
29	Grace	17	↓10	27
30	Hilda	17	↑15	>100
31	Irene	17	new	17
32	Mabel	17	–	62
33	Shizuko	17	↓23	>100
34	Tsuruko	17	↓4	>100
35	Julia	16	↑4	44
36	Marie	16	new	11
37	Minnie	16	new	68
38	Doris	15	↓17	34
39	Evelyn	15	↑10	10
40	Marion	15	new	50
41	Esther	14	↓3	33
42	Anna	13	new	7
43	Dolores	13	new	>100
44	Frances	13	↑6	9
45	Josephine	13	↑1	22
46	Lucy	13	new	79
47	Nancy	13	new	>100
48	Ruth	13	↓35	5
49	Sadako	13	new	>100
50	Virginia	13	↓7	12

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1914	US rank
1	George	86	–	6
2	John	79	–	1
3	Joseph	63	↑1	5
4	William	58	↓1	2
5	Richard	51	↑5	15
6	Henry	48	↑1	14
7	James	47	↓2	3
8	Frank	39	↑1	9
9	Edward	36	↓1	8
10	Manuel	36	↑15	>100
11	David	34	↑3	31
12	Charles	31	↑7	7
13	Robert	29	↓7	4
14	Albert	28	↑8	17
15	Harry	28	↑6	19
16	Raymond	26	↑12	16
17	Herbert	22	↑14	40
18	Thomas	22	↓7	10
19	Clarence	21	↑24	24
20	Kenneth	21	↓5	28
21	Walter	21	↓9	11
22	Yoshio	21	↓5	>100
23	Francis	20	↑26	29
24	Masao	20	↓8	>100
25	Hiroshi	19	new	>100
26	Daniel	17	↑8	55
27	Ernest	17	↑3	35
28	Alfred	16	↓10	42
29	Joe	16	↓6	38
30	Paul	16	↑5	13
31	Jack	15	new	27
32	Stanley	15	↑8	34
33	Anthony	14	new	36
34	Antone	14	↓7	>100
35	Noboru	14	new	>100
36	Lawrence	13	↑2	37
37	Louis	13	↓13	23
38	Samuel	13	↓25	39
39	Tadao	13	new	>100
40	Harold	12	↓20	12
41	Hideo	12	↓4	>100
42	Kazuo	12	new	>100
43	Kiyoshi	12	↑2	>100
44	Peter	12	↓5	49
45	Shigeru	12	new	>100
46	Takeo	12	↓20	>100
47	Masaru	11	↓1	>100
48	Mitsuo	11	new	>100
49	Seichi	11	new	>100
50	Fred	10	new	26

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