Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1916

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1916 were Mary for girls (86 babies) and John for boys (112). Social Security records list 4,112 babies born in Hawaii in 1916 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1916

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

Girls

Kikue: 18 babies, 394.5× the national rate
Shizue: 27 babies, 345.2× the national rate
Chiyoko: 17 babies, 313× the national rate
Shizuko: 23 babies, 286.1× the national rate
Haruko: 19 babies, 282.1× the national rate
Kiyoko: 23 babies, 278.6× the national rate
Yoshiko: 26 babies, 272× the national rate
Masako: 19 babies, 242.9× the national rate
Violet: 38 babies, 6× the national rate
Mabel: 31 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Boys

Masato: 20 babies, 420× the national rate
Tatsuo: 41 babies, 347.4× the national rate
Toshio: 17 babies, 304.1× the national rate
Minoru: 16 babies, 297.2× the national rate
Masao: 33 babies, 279.6× the national rate
Kazuo: 17 babies, 273.7× the national rate
Shigeru: 15 babies, 258.7× the national rate
Shigeo: 18 babies, 241.5× the national rate
Hideo: 16 babies, 241.5× the national rate
Kiyoshi: 18 babies, 222.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1916

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	Mary	86	–	1
2	Helen	71	–	2
3	Margaret	66	↑2	4
4	Dorothy	65	↓1	3
5	Rose	49	↑1	15
6	Elizabeth	47	↑7	8
7	Alice	42	↓3	13
8	Mildred	40	↑13	6
9	Violet	38	↑6	83
10	Lillian	32	↑9	16
11	Mabel	31	↑21	65
12	Elsie	30	↓3	48
13	Florence	28	↓6	14
14	Ruth	28	↑34	5
15	Beatrice	27	↓1	38
16	Doris	27	↑22	32
17	Shizue	27	↓7	>100
18	Gladys	26	↑6	22
19	Yoshiko	26	↓11	>100
20	Agnes	25	↓9	50
21	Edith	24	new	28
22	Julia	24	↑13	46
23	Kiyoko	23	new	>100
24	Shizuko	23	↑9	>100
25	Ellen	22	new	87
26	Ethel	22	↓8	25
27	Annie	21	↓15	36
28	Betty	21	↓12	44
29	Irene	21	↑2	17
30	Sarah	21	new	52
31	Thelma	21	new	29
32	Clara	20	↓15	39
33	Evelyn	20	↑6	11
34	Frances	20	↑10	9
35	Bertha	19	new	49
36	Haruko	19	↓16	>100
37	Masako	19	↓15	>100
38	Edna	18	↓12	19
39	Katherine	18	↓14	51
40	Kikue	18	new	>100
41	Chiyoko	17	↓18	>100
42	Emma	17	new	41
43	Esther	17	↓2	34
44	Hazel	17	new	31
45	Louise	17	new	18
46	Eva	16	new	55
47	Jane	16	new	62
48	Nancy	16	↓1	>100
49	Bernice	15	new	42
50	Gertrude	15	new	35

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1915	US rank
1	John	112	↑1	1
2	Joseph	66	↑1	5
3	George	62	↓2	7
4	Richard	60	↑1	15
5	James	55	↑2	3
6	William	53	↓2	2
7	Henry	48	↓1	14
8	Robert	42	↑5	4
9	Tatsuo	41	new	>100
10	Edward	35	↓1	8
11	Charles	34	↑1	6
12	Harry	33	↑3	19
13	Manuel	33	↓3	>100
14	Masao	33	↑10	>100
15	David	32	↓4	28
16	Raymond	29	–	16
17	Ernest	27	↑10	36
18	Walter	26	↑3	11
19	Frank	25	↓11	9
20	Albert	24	↓6	17
21	Alfred	24	↑7	43
22	Thomas	24	↓4	10
23	Harold	22	↑17	13
24	Fred	21	↑26	29
25	Joe	20	↑4	35
26	Masato	20	new	>100
27	Yoshio	20	↓5	>100
28	Kenneth	19	↓8	27
29	Daniel	18	↓3	55
30	Kiyoshi	18	↑13	>100
31	Shigeo	18	new	>100
32	Clarence	17	↓13	24
33	Herbert	17	↓16	40
34	Kazuo	17	↑8	>100
35	Peter	17	↑9	50
36	Samuel	17	↑2	41
37	Toshio	17	new	>100
38	Hideo	16	↑3	>100
39	Minoru	16	new	>100
40	Anthony	15	↓7	37
41	Arthur	15	new	18
42	Hiroshi	15	↓17	>100
43	Paul	15	↓13	12
44	Shigeru	15	↑1	>100
45	Benjamin	14	new	79
46	Jack	14	↓15	26
47	Stanley	13	↓15	34
48	Yukio	13	new	>100
49	Isami	12	new	>100
50	Noboru	12	↓15	>100

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