Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1920

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1920 were Mary for girls (102 babies) and John for boys (88). Social Security records list 5,211 babies born in Hawaii in 1920 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1920

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

Girls

Kimie: 16 babies, 402.5× the national rate
Mitsue: 16 babies, 357.8× the national rate
Sumie: 15 babies, 317.8× the national rate
Yaeko: 16 babies, 292.7× the national rate
Shizue: 29 babies, 291.8× the national rate
Kikue: 18 babies, 289.8× the national rate
Yoshie: 17 babies, 285.1× the national rate
Fumie: 15 babies, 274.4× the national rate
Haruko: 19 babies, 263.7× the national rate
Shizuko: 25 babies, 239.6× the national rate

Boys

Haruo: 18 babies, 306.3× the national rate
Shigeru: 25 babies, 297.8× the national rate
Tadao: 16 babies, 293.2× the national rate
Isamu: 17 babies, 270× the national rate
Noboru: 19 babies, 266.2× the national rate
Mitsuo: 21 babies, 263.3× the national rate
Takeo: 16 babies, 262.9× the national rate
Tadashi: 17 babies, 261.3× the national rate
Hiroshi: 31 babies, 238.2× the national rate
Hideo: 20 babies, 232.4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1920

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	Mary	102	–	1
2	Helen	76	↑1	3
3	Dorothy	72	↓1	2
4	Alice	68	↑1	15
5	Margaret	61	↓1	4
6	Mildred	49	↑5	6
7	Florence	48	↓1	16
8	Frances	44	↑12	9
9	Elizabeth	42	↓1	8
10	Betty	41	↑9	11
11	Nancy	40	↑29	95
12	Rose	40	↓3	20
13	Violet	40	↓6	77
14	Yoshiko	38	↑14	>100
15	Beatrice	35	↓1	41
16	Ruth	35	–	5
17	Clara	32	↑25	44
18	Gladys	30	↑29	22
19	Irene	30	↑3	17
20	Shizue	29	↑10	>100
21	Eleanor	28	↓8	25
22	Elsie	28	↓7	51
23	Doris	27	↑8	14
24	Fumiko	27	↑13	>100
25	Lillian	27	↑1	18
26	Ethel	26	↑6	30
27	Annie	25	↑14	35
28	Kiyoko	25	↑10	>100
29	Louise	25	new	19
30	Shizuko	25	↑20	>100
31	Masako	24	↓8	>100
32	Jane	23	↑11	48
33	Josephine	23	–	28
34	Virginia	23	new	7
35	Agnes	22	↓10	54
36	Katherine	21	↓24	45
37	Thelma	21	↓27	31
38	Edith	20	↓17	32
39	Grace	20	↓10	37
40	Mitsuko	20	↓23	>100
41	Haruko	19	↓23	>100
42	Sarah	19	↑4	50
43	Evelyn	18	↑2	12
44	Kikue	18	↑5	>100
45	Aiko	17	↓10	>100
46	Chiyoko	17	↓7	>100
47	Ellen	17	new	92
48	Emily	17	↓12	>100
49	Hazel	17	new	34
50	Julia	17	new	55

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1919	US rank
1	John	88	–	1
2	Robert	74	↑3	3
3	William	74	–	2
4	George	71	↓2	6
5	Joseph	69	↓1	7
6	James	63	↑1	4
7	Richard	59	↑1	10
8	David	46	↑4	25
9	Edward	46	–	8
10	Albert	45	–	19
11	Henry	43	↓5	17
12	Charles	42	↑4	5
13	Frank	41	–	9
14	Harry	40	↑7	21
15	Hiroshi	31	↑19	>100
16	Alfred	29	↓1	42
17	Harold	28	↑10	12
18	Herbert	28	↑4	41
19	Manuel	27	↓1	>100
20	Walter	27	↓6	13
21	Thomas	26	↓4	11
22	Lawrence	25	↑6	36
23	Shigeru	25	↑26	>100
24	Yoshio	25	↓4	>100
25	Daniel	23	↑1	52
26	Masao	23	↓15	>100
27	Paul	23	↓4	14
28	Raymond	22	↓9	15
29	Francis	21	↑7	34
30	Kiyoshi	21	↓6	>100
31	Mitsuo	21	↑4	>100
32	Hideo	20	↑8	>100
33	Noboru	19	↑15	>100
34	Toshio	19	↑9	>100
35	Clarence	18	↓10	26
36	Ernest	18	↑3	37
37	Haruo	18	↑9	>100
38	Stanley	18	↑7	40
39	Isamu	17	new	>100
40	Jack	17	↑7	20
41	Kazuo	17	↓11	>100
42	Kenneth	17	↑2	23
43	Peter	17	↓1	57
44	Tadashi	17	new	>100
45	Gilbert	16	new	97
46	Minoru	16	new	>100
47	Tadao	16	new	>100
48	Takeo	16	↓17	>100
49	Antone	14	new	>100
50	Tsutomu	14	new	>100

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