Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1922

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1922 were Mary for girls (101 babies) and John for boys (89). Social Security records list 6,149 babies born in Hawaii in 1922 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1922

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: 15 babies, 353.4× the national rate
Mitsue: 23 babies, 325.2× the national rate
Sueko: 16 babies, 314.2× the national rate
Kikue: 19 babies, 305.2× the national rate
Kimie: 19 babies, 292× the national rate
Shizue: 32 babies, 282.8× the national rate
Yukie: 17 babies, 273.1× the national rate
Chieko: 16 babies, 257.1× the national rate
Tomiko: 16 babies, 257.1× the national rate
Shigeko: 18 babies, 254.5× the national rate

Boys

Seichi: 18 babies, 339× the national rate
Takeo: 22 babies, 322.3× the national rate
Shigeru: 20 babies, 247.2× the national rate
Mitsuo: 21 babies, 244.3× the national rate
Tadashi: 21 babies, 237.3× the national rate
Takeshi: 22 babies, 229× the national rate
Isamu: 23 babies, 227.4× the national rate
Masao: 38 babies, 221× the national rate
Noboru: 16 babies, 211× the national rate
Yukio: 19 babies, 208.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1922

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	Mary	101	–	1
2	Helen	91	↑4	3
3	Margaret	87	↓1	4
4	Dorothy	77	↓1	2
5	Beatrice	59	↑22	43
6	Alice	57	↑1	15
7	Elizabeth	55	↓3	9
8	Betty	54	↑7	6
9	Florence	51	↓4	18
10	Violet	51	↓2	86
11	Ruth	49	↑3	5
12	Rose	48	↓2	23
13	Mildred	42	–	8
14	Yoshiko	42	↓2	>100
15	Lillian	41	↑8	19
16	Gladys	40	↓7	25
17	Nancy	37	↑7	78
18	Agnes	35	↑16	62
19	Edith	34	↑16	34
20	Irene	34	↑9	17
21	Jane	34	↓3	55
22	Thelma	34	↑9	31
23	Grace	33	↑9	38
24	Katherine	32	↑18	54
25	Shizue	32	↓5	>100
26	Eleanor	31	↓9	28
27	Doris	30	↓16	11
28	Frances	30	↑16	10
29	Janet	30	↑1	>100
30	Barbara	29	↑13	40
31	Clara	29	↑8	47
32	Annie	28	↓13	30
33	Ethel	28	↓5	32
34	Kiyoko	28	↑3	>100
35	Elsie	27	↓14	59
36	Fumiko	27	↑12	>100
37	Jean	27	↓15	20
38	Mabel	26	↓22	99
39	Haruko	25	↓14	>100
40	Edna	23	new	29
41	Julia	23	new	60
42	Mitsue	23	↓16	>100
43	Evelyn	22	↓7	13
44	Hazel	22	↑2	37
45	Mitsuko	22	new	>100
46	Josephine	20	↓6	27
47	Marjorie	20	new	16
48	Kikue	19	new	>100
49	Kimie	19	new	>100
50	Yaeko	19	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1921	US rank
1	John	89	↑1	1
2	William	88	↑1	3
3	George	85	↓2	6
4	Robert	83	↑2	2
5	Joseph	78	↑2	7
6	James	75	↓2	4
7	Richard	71	↑1	9
8	Edward	69	↑2	8
9	Charles	61	↑2	5
10	Albert	49	↑2	20
11	Henry	48	↓6	17
12	Harry	39	↓3	22
13	Raymond	39	↑3	16
14	Masao	38	↑13	>100
15	David	37	–	24
16	Harold	37	↑19	13
17	Frank	34	↓4	10
18	Thomas	33	↓1	11
19	Walter	33	↑11	15
20	Alfred	32	↓2	42
21	Herbert	30	↑5	40
22	Manuel	27	↑10	>100
23	Ernest	26	↓4	37
24	Daniel	25	↑1	47
25	Hideo	25	↑8	>100
26	Hiroshi	25	↓6	>100
27	Kiyoshi	24	↓5	>100
28	Toshio	24	↓4	>100
29	Benjamin	23	↑20	82
30	Clarence	23	↑1	29
31	Isamu	23	↑5	>100
32	Stanley	23	new	41
33	Yoshio	23	↓19	>100
34	Francis	22	↓6	34
35	Takeo	22	↑13	>100
36	Takeshi	22	↑5	>100
37	Mitsuo	21	↑1	>100
38	Tadashi	21	new	>100
39	Arthur	20	↑5	19
40	Kazuo	20	↓11	>100
41	Louis	20	↑9	27
42	Paul	20	new	14
43	Shigeru	20	↑4	>100
44	Wallace	20	new	87
45	Lawrence	19	↓22	36
46	Yukio	19	new	>100
47	Seichi	18	new	>100
48	Edwin	17	new	52
49	Gilbert	17	↓12	100
50	Herman	17	new	66

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