Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1917

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1917 were Mary for girls (88 babies) and John for boys (98). Social Security records list 4,736 babies born in Hawaii in 1917 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1917

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

Girls

Yukie: 15 babies, 381.8× the national rate
Kikue: 17 babies, 346.2× the national rate
Misao: 20 babies, 339.4× the national rate
Yoshie: 20 babies, 339.4× the national rate
Chiyoko: 30 babies, 321.5× the national rate
Mitsue: 15 babies, 305.4× the national rate
Yoshiko: 42 babies, 289.9× the national rate
Kiyoko: 29 babies, 288.1× the national rate
Shizue: 23 babies, 283.8× the national rate
Haruko: 23 babies, 267.6× the national rate

Boys

Yukio: 19 babies, 325× the national rate
Tadashi: 21 babies, 274.7× the national rate
Yoshio: 36 babies, 262.5× the national rate
Hideo: 26 babies, 236× the national rate
Masaru: 16 babies, 229.5× the national rate
Minoru: 21 babies, 217.2× the national rate
Toshio: 15 babies, 215.2× the national rate
Masao: 29 babies, 211.4× the national rate
Manuel: 31 babies, 11.9× the national rate
Alexander: 15 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1917

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	Mary	88	–	1
2	Helen	70	–	2
3	Dorothy	60	↑1	3
4	Margaret	60	↓1	4
5	Alice	59	↑2	13
6	Elizabeth	52	–	8
7	Yoshiko	42	↑12	>100
8	Rose	41	↓3	16
9	Elsie	38	↑3	50
10	Mildred	38	↓2	6
11	Annie	37	↑16	35
12	Florence	36	↑1	14
13	Lillian	36	↓3	15
14	Nancy	35	↑34	98
15	Betty	34	↑13	34
16	Gladys	31	↑2	23
17	Agnes	30	↑3	48
18	Chiyoko	30	↑23	>100
19	Ruth	30	↓5	5
20	Kiyoko	29	↑3	>100
21	Ethel	28	↑5	24
22	Doris	27	↓6	25
23	Thelma	27	↑8	32
24	Beatrice	26	↓9	39
25	Edith	26	↓4	28
26	Hazel	26	↑18	31
27	Irene	26	↑2	17
28	Violet	26	↓19	84
29	Clara	25	↑3	41
30	Jane	25	↑17	55
31	Eleanor	23	new	26
32	Fumiko	23	new	>100
33	Haruko	23	↑3	>100
34	Josephine	23	new	21
35	Shizue	23	↓18	>100
36	Ellen	22	↓11	90
37	Frances	22	↓3	9
38	Julia	22	↓16	47
39	Grace	21	new	30
40	Katherine	20	↓1	49
41	Misao	20	new	>100
42	Yoshie	20	new	>100
43	Edna	19	↓5	20
44	Esther	19	↓1	38
45	Hilda	19	new	>100
46	Miyoko	19	new	>100
47	Harriet	18	new	>100
48	Mabel	18	↓37	68
49	Masako	18	↓12	>100
50	Kikue	17	↓10	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1916	US rank
1	John	98	–	1
2	George	93	↑1	6
3	William	72	↑3	2
4	Joseph	68	↓2	5
5	Robert	68	↑3	4
6	Richard	58	↓2	14
7	James	52	↓2	3
8	Henry	48	↓1	15
9	Edward	45	↑1	8
10	Charles	38	↑1	7
11	Yoshio	36	↑16	>100
12	Albert	35	↑8	18
13	Thomas	35	↑9	10
14	David	33	↑1	28
15	Frank	33	↑4	9
16	Harry	33	↓4	19
17	Manuel	31	↓4	>100
18	Masao	29	↓4	>100
19	Raymond	29	↓3	16
20	Walter	28	↓2	11
21	Alfred	26	–	43
22	Hideo	26	↑16	>100
23	Herbert	25	↑10	40
24	Kenneth	24	↑4	27
25	Harold	22	↓2	12
26	Paul	22	↑17	13
27	Daniel	21	↑2	54
28	Minoru	21	↑11	>100
29	Tadashi	21	new	>100
30	Ernest	19	↓13	37
31	Fred	19	↓7	29
32	Yukio	19	↑16	>100
33	Clarence	18	↓1	25
34	Louis	18	new	23
35	Masaru	16	new	>100
36	Samuel	16	–	42
37	Alexander	15	new	97
38	Toshio	15	↓1	>100
39	Isao	14	new	>100
40	Kiyoshi	14	↓10	>100
41	Peter	14	↓6	50
42	Shigeo	14	↓11	>100
43	Hiroshi	13	↓1	>100
44	Kazuo	13	↓10	>100
45	Kenji	13	new	>100
46	Lawrence	13	new	36
47	Masami	13	new	>100
48	Masato	13	↓22	>100
49	Shigeru	13	↓5	>100
50	Stanley	13	↓3	34

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