Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1918

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1918 were Mary for girls (103 babies) and John for boys (102). Social Security records list 4,870 babies born in Hawaii in 1918 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1918

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

Girls

Matsue: 19 babies, 407.8× the national rate
Fusae: 15 babies, 357.7× the national rate
Yoshie: 16 babies, 343.4× the national rate
Hatsuko: 18 babies, 335.9× the national rate
Sadako: 16 babies, 327× the national rate
Kimiko: 19 babies, 326.2× the national rate
Shizue: 25 babies, 306.6× the national rate
Mitsue: 15 babies, 306.6× the national rate
Kiyoko: 22 babies, 277.7× the national rate
Shizuko: 25 babies, 261.7× the national rate

Boys

Masaichi: 19 babies, 422× the national rate
Haruo: 16 babies, 339.2× the national rate
Kenichi: 15 babies, 318× the national rate
Noboru: 16 babies, 257.3× the national rate
Shigeru: 22 babies, 256.5× the national rate
Kiyoshi: 22 babies, 244.3× the national rate
Isamu: 15 babies, 241.2× the national rate
Yoshio: 33 babies, 233.2× the national rate
Toshio: 18 babies, 215.3× the national rate
Masao: 37 babies, 213× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1918

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	Mary	103	–	1
2	Helen	63	–	2
3	Margaret	60	↑1	4
4	Alice	55	↑1	13
5	Dorothy	55	↓2	3
6	Florence	51	↑6	14
7	Mildred	49	↑3	6
8	Elizabeth	42	↓2	9
9	Rose	40	↓1	17
10	Violet	38	↑18	83
11	Agnes	34	↑6	47
12	Ruth	33	↑7	5
13	Beatrice	32	↑11	40
14	Yoshiko	32	↓7	>100
15	Doris	31	↑7	19
16	Gladys	31	–	22
17	Irene	31	↑10	16
18	Jane	30	↑12	53
19	Eleanor	29	↑12	26
20	Katherine	29	↑20	50
21	Ethel	28	–	28
22	Haruko	28	↑11	>100
23	Thelma	28	–	32
24	Betty	27	↓9	21
25	Mitsuko	26	new	>100
26	Frances	25	↑11	8
27	Shizue	25	↑8	>100
28	Shizuko	25	new	>100
29	Edna	24	↑14	23
30	Masako	24	↑19	>100
31	Clara	23	↓2	43
32	Elsie	23	↓23	49
33	Nancy	23	↓19	>100
34	Edith	22	↓9	30
35	Kiyoko	22	↓15	>100
36	Lillian	22	↓23	15
37	Annie	21	↓26	36
38	Evelyn	21	new	11
39	Harriet	21	↑8	>100
40	Julia	20	↓2	48
41	Bernice	19	new	41
42	Grace	19	↓3	31
43	Kimiko	19	new	>100
44	Matsue	19	new	>100
45	Hatsuko	18	new	>100
46	Hazel	18	↓20	33
47	Lily	18	new	>100
48	Mabel	18	–	74
49	Chiyoko	17	↓31	>100
50	Fumiko	17	↓18	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1917	US rank
1	John	102	–	1
2	William	96	↑1	2
3	Joseph	85	↑1	7
4	George	84	↓2	6
5	Richard	69	↑1	12
6	James	68	↑1	3
7	Edward	47	↑2	8
8	Robert	46	↓3	4
9	Charles	45	↑1	5
10	Henry	45	↓2	16
11	Harry	39	↑5	20
12	Masao	37	↑6	>100
13	Alfred	36	↑8	42
14	Frank	36	↑1	9
15	Albert	33	↓3	19
16	David	33	↓2	28
17	Yoshio	33	↓6	>100
18	Harold	30	↑7	13
19	Thomas	30	↓6	10
20	Walter	26	–	11
21	Ernest	25	↑9	37
22	Francis	25	new	30
23	Raymond	25	↓4	15
24	Manuel	23	↓7	>100
25	Kiyoshi	22	↑15	>100
26	Samuel	22	↑10	43
27	Shigeru	22	↑22	>100
28	Arthur	21	new	17
29	Herbert	19	↓6	40
30	Masaichi	19	new	>100
31	Daniel	18	↓4	52
32	Hiroshi	18	↑11	>100
33	Paul	18	↓7	14
34	Toshio	18	↑4	>100
35	Haruo	16	new	>100
36	Jack	16	new	21
37	Joe	16	new	34
38	Louis	16	↓4	24
39	Noboru	16	new	>100
40	Donald	15	new	18
41	Hideo	15	↓19	>100
42	Isamu	15	new	>100
43	Kenichi	15	new	>100
44	Kenneth	15	↓20	27
45	Minoru	15	↓17	>100
46	Peter	15	↓5	53
47	Clarence	14	↓14	23
48	Fred	14	↓17	33
49	Lawrence	14	↓3	38
50	Gilbert	13	new	>100

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