Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1919

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1919 were Mary for girls (100 babies) and John for boys (87). Social Security records list 5,007 babies born in Hawaii in 1919 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1919

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

Girls

Yoshie: 28 babies, 370× the national rate
Kikue: 17 babies, 354.7× the national rate
Yasuko: 16 babies, 317.1× the national rate
Harue: 15 babies, 297.3× the national rate
Yukiko: 16 babies, 275.8× the national rate
Mitsuko: 32 babies, 264.3× the national rate
Shizue: 26 babies, 251.4× the national rate
Chiyoko: 21 babies, 237.8× the national rate
Aiko: 22 babies, 212.7× the national rate
Kiyoko: 22 babies, 212.7× the national rate

Boys

Mitsuo: 18 babies, 341× the national rate
Masao: 39 babies, 281.4× the national rate
Takeshi: 17 babies, 276× the national rate
Takeo: 20 babies, 245.7× the national rate
Yoshio: 27 babies, 231.6× the national rate
Kiyoshi: 23 babies, 197.3× the national rate
Toshio: 16 babies, 196.6× the national rate
Kazuo: 20 babies, 189.4× the national rate
Hideo: 16 babies, 186.5× the national rate
Hiroshi: 18 babies, 186× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1919

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	Mary	100	–	1
2	Dorothy	71	↑3	3
3	Helen	68	↓1	2
4	Margaret	65	↓1	4
5	Alice	59	↓1	13
6	Florence	57	–	14
7	Violet	48	↑3	74
8	Elizabeth	47	–	8
9	Rose	47	–	19
10	Thelma	37	↑13	31
11	Mildred	36	↓4	6
12	Katherine	35	↑8	51
13	Eleanor	34	↑6	30
14	Beatrice	33	↓1	41
15	Elsie	33	↑17	47
16	Ruth	33	↓4	5
17	Mitsuko	32	↑8	>100
18	Haruko	31	↑4	>100
19	Betty	30	↑5	15
20	Frances	30	↑6	9
21	Edith	29	↑13	29
22	Irene	28	↓5	16
23	Masako	28	↑7	>100
24	Yoshie	28	new	>100
25	Agnes	27	↓14	50
26	Lillian	27	↑10	17
27	Toshiko	27	new	>100
28	Yoshiko	27	↓14	>100
29	Grace	26	↑13	34
30	Shizue	26	↓3	>100
31	Doris	24	↓16	18
32	Ethel	24	↓11	28
33	Josephine	24	new	26
34	Lucy	23	new	91
35	Aiko	22	new	>100
36	Emily	22	new	>100
37	Fumiko	22	↑13	>100
38	Kiyoko	22	↓3	>100
39	Chiyoko	21	↑10	>100
40	Nancy	21	↓7	100
41	Annie	20	↓4	35
42	Clara	20	↓11	43
43	Jane	19	↓25	53
44	Martha	19	new	25
45	Evelyn	18	↓7	11
46	Sarah	18	new	46
47	Gladys	17	↓31	21
48	Jean	17	new	37
49	Kikue	17	new	>100
50	Shizuko	17	↓22	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1918	US rank
1	John	87	–	1
2	George	81	↑2	6
3	William	77	↓1	2
4	Joseph	74	↓1	7
5	Robert	65	↑3	4
6	Henry	63	↑4	16
7	James	57	↓1	3
8	Richard	53	↓3	12
9	Edward	45	↓2	8
10	Albert	42	↑5	18
11	Masao	39	↑1	>100
12	David	37	↑4	27
13	Frank	37	↑1	9
14	Walter	37	↑6	11
15	Alfred	36	↓2	42
16	Charles	35	↓7	5
17	Thomas	33	↑2	10
18	Manuel	30	↑6	>100
19	Raymond	28	↑4	14
20	Yoshio	27	↓3	>100
21	Harry	25	↓10	20
22	Herbert	24	↑7	40
23	Paul	24	↑10	15
24	Kiyoshi	23	↑1	>100
25	Clarence	22	↑22	25
26	Daniel	22	↑5	51
27	Harold	22	↓9	13
28	Lawrence	21	↑21	38
29	Edwin	20	new	52
30	Kazuo	20	new	>100
31	Takeo	20	new	>100
32	Arthur	19	↓4	19
33	Fred	18	↑15	30
34	Hiroshi	18	↓2	>100
35	Mitsuo	18	new	>100
36	Francis	17	↓14	34
37	Samuel	17	↓11	43
38	Takeshi	17	new	>100
39	Ernest	16	↓18	36
40	Hideo	16	↑1	>100
41	Louis	16	↓3	28
42	Peter	16	↑4	57
43	Toshio	16	↓9	>100
44	Kenneth	15	–	26
45	Stanley	15	new	37
46	Haruo	14	↓11	>100
47	Jack	14	↓11	21
48	Noboru	14	↓9	>100
49	Shigeru	14	↓22	>100
50	Susumu	14	new	>100

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