Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1921

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1921 were Mary for girls (121 babies) and George for boys (99). George ranked #6 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 5,560 babies born in Hawaii in 1921 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1921

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

Girls

Hatsue: 19 babies, 389.8× the national rate
Mitsue: 28 babies, 337.9× the national rate
Shizue: 30 babies, 323.9× the national rate
Haruko: 28 babies, 294.6× the national rate
Sadako: 17 babies, 290.7× the national rate
Yoshie: 18 babies, 263.8× the national rate
Mitsuko: 16 babies, 193.1× the national rate
Masako: 26 babies, 183.9× the national rate
Yoshiko: 37 babies, 178.6× the national rate
Kiyoko: 25 babies, 176.9× the national rate

Boys

Haruo: 26 babies, 350.3× the national rate
Isamu: 20 babies, 287.4× the national rate
Takeshi: 19 babies, 273× the national rate
Yoshio: 45 babies, 265.7× the national rate
Takeo: 16 babies, 265.3× the national rate
Mitsuo: 19 babies, 264.2× the national rate
Shigeo: 18 babies, 250.3× the national rate
Noboru: 19 babies, 240.9× the national rate
Kiyoshi: 26 babies, 211.5× the national rate
Hideo: 21 babies, 181.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1921

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	Mary	121	–	1
2	Margaret	88	↑3	4
3	Dorothy	76	–	2
4	Elizabeth	69	↑5	10
5	Florence	52	↑2	17
6	Helen	52	↓4	3
7	Alice	49	↓3	15
8	Violet	42	↑5	81
9	Gladys	40	↑9	24
10	Rose	40	↑2	20
11	Doris	37	↑12	13
12	Yoshiko	37	↑2	>100
13	Mildred	36	↓7	7
14	Ruth	34	↑2	5
15	Betty	33	↓5	8
16	Mabel	33	new	85
17	Eleanor	32	↑4	29
18	Jane	31	↑14	47
19	Annie	30	↑8	36
20	Shizue	30	–	>100
21	Elsie	29	↑1	55
22	Jean	29	new	25
23	Lillian	29	↑2	19
24	Nancy	29	↓13	87
25	Haruko	28	↑16	>100
26	Mitsue	28	new	>100
27	Beatrice	27	↓12	41
28	Ethel	27	↓2	32
29	Irene	27	↓10	18
30	Janet	27	new	>100
31	Thelma	27	↑6	30
32	Grace	26	↑7	35
33	Masako	26	↓2	>100
34	Agnes	25	↑1	56
35	Edith	25	↑3	33
36	Evelyn	25	↑7	12
37	Kiyoko	25	↓9	>100
38	Ellen	23	↑9	95
39	Clara	22	↓22	45
40	Josephine	22	↓7	28
41	Harriet	21	new	>100
42	Katherine	21	↓6	49
43	Barbara	20	new	40
44	Frances	20	↓36	9
45	Hatsue	19	new	>100
46	Hazel	19	↑3	34
47	Esther	18	new	42
48	Fumiko	18	↓24	>100
49	Marian	18	new	69
50	Virginia	18	↓16	6

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1920	US rank
1	George	99	↑3	6
2	John	99	↓1	1
3	William	86	–	3
4	James	73	↑2	4
5	Henry	67	↑6	17
6	Robert	67	↓4	2
7	Joseph	66	↓2	7
8	Richard	59	↓1	10
9	Harry	52	↑5	21
10	Edward	48	↓1	8
11	Charles	46	↑1	5
12	Albert	45	↓2	20
13	Frank	45	–	9
14	Yoshio	45	↑10	>100
15	David	38	↓7	25
16	Raymond	35	↑12	16
17	Thomas	35	↑4	11
18	Alfred	32	↓2	43
19	Ernest	32	↑17	38
20	Hiroshi	30	↓5	>100
21	Haruo	26	↑16	>100
22	Kiyoshi	26	↑8	>100
23	Lawrence	26	↓1	37
24	Toshio	26	↑10	>100
25	Daniel	25	–	49
26	Herbert	25	↓8	42
27	Masao	25	↓1	>100
28	Francis	24	↑1	35
29	Kazuo	23	↑12	>100
30	Walter	23	↓10	15
31	Clarence	22	↑4	28
32	Manuel	22	↓13	>100
33	Hideo	21	↓1	>100
34	Kenneth	21	↑8	22
35	Harold	20	↓18	12
36	Isamu	20	↑3	>100
37	Gilbert	19	↑8	>100
38	Mitsuo	19	↓7	>100
39	Noboru	19	↓6	>100
40	Samuel	19	new	44
41	Takeshi	19	new	>100
42	Minoru	18	↑4	>100
43	Shigeo	18	new	>100
44	Arthur	17	new	19
45	Fred	17	new	33
46	Peter	16	↓3	57
47	Shigeru	16	↓24	>100
48	Takeo	16	–	>100
49	Benjamin	15	new	82
50	Louis	15	new	29

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