Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1923

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1923 were Mary for girls (103 babies) and George for boys (110). George ranked #6 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,247 babies born in Hawaii in 1923 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1923

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

Girls

Fumie: 16 babies, 353.4× the national rate
Hatsue: 15 babies, 331.3× the national rate
Mitsue: 31 babies, 304.3× the national rate
Kikue: 15 babies, 279× the national rate
Shizue: 24 babies, 249.4× the national rate
Yaeko: 19 babies, 223.8× the national rate
Yoshie: 16 babies, 217.5× the national rate
Chiyoko: 25 babies, 215.5× the national rate
Sumiko: 16 babies, 182.4× the national rate
Kimiko: 19 babies, 181.5× the national rate

Boys

Haruo: 18 babies, 331.6× the national rate
Mitsuo: 19 babies, 282.7× the national rate
Tamotsu: 19 babies, 282.7× the national rate
Susumu: 19 babies, 272.3× the national rate
Takeo: 15 babies, 252.3× the national rate
Takashi: 23 babies, 247.2× the national rate
Yoshio: 35 babies, 241.8× the national rate
Masao: 33 babies, 224× the national rate
Yukio: 15 babies, 223.2× the national rate
Katsumi: 16 babies, 221.1× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1923

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	Mary	103	–	1
2	Dorothy	95	↑2	2
3	Helen	93	↓1	3
4	Alice	79	↑2	15
5	Margaret	79	↓2	4
6	Florence	57	↑3	18
7	Rose	57	↑5	23
8	Elizabeth	56	↓1	9
9	Betty	50	↓1	5
10	Lillian	49	↑5	20
11	Frances	48	↑17	10
12	Violet	47	↓2	86
13	Doris	46	↑14	11
14	Gladys	45	↑2	29
15	Eleanor	43	↑11	28
16	Mildred	41	↓3	8
17	Jane	39	↑4	55
18	Elsie	35	↑17	61
19	Josephine	35	↑27	30
20	Beatrice	34	↓15	46
21	Nancy	34	↓4	75
22	Ruth	34	↓11	6
23	Mitsue	31	↑19	>100
24	Evelyn	29	↑19	12
25	Thelma	29	↓3	31
26	Agnes	28	↓8	63
27	Grace	28	↓4	39
28	Kiyoko	28	↑6	>100
29	Mabel	28	↑9	>100
30	Edith	27	↓11	36
31	Chiyoko	25	new	>100
32	Jean	25	↑5	19
33	Annie	24	↓1	34
34	Fumiko	24	↑2	>100
35	Katherine	24	↓11	60
36	Shizue	24	↓11	>100
37	Ethel	23	↓4	38
38	Bernice	22	new	43
39	Harriet	22	new	>100
40	Julia	22	↑1	62
41	Yoshiko	22	↓27	>100
42	Hazel	21	↑2	40
43	Louise	21	new	22
44	Toshiko	21	new	>100
45	Patsy	20	new	>100
46	Irene	19	↓26	17
47	Kimiko	19	new	>100
48	Lily	19	new	>100
49	Yaeko	19	↑1	>100
50	Clara	18	↓19	49

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1922	US rank
1	George	110	↑2	6
2	John	108	↓1	1
3	William	91	↓1	3
4	Robert	88	–	2
5	Joseph	81	–	7
6	James	80	–	4
7	Richard	68	–	9
8	Edward	65	–	8
9	Henry	52	↑2	18
10	Charles	48	↓1	5
11	Thomas	48	↑7	12
12	Harry	47	–	22
13	David	46	↑2	24
14	Alfred	43	↑6	42
15	Walter	41	↑4	16
16	Albert	39	↓6	20
17	Raymond	39	↓4	15
18	Frank	36	↓1	11
19	Kiyoshi	35	↑8	>100
20	Yoshio	35	↑13	>100
21	Herbert	34	–	40
22	Ernest	33	↑1	38
23	Masao	33	↓9	>100
24	Hiroshi	32	↑2	>100
25	Samuel	31	new	45
26	Daniel	30	↓2	47
27	Kenneth	29	new	21
28	Harold	27	↓12	13
29	Clarence	25	↑1	29
30	Paul	25	↑12	14
31	Hideo	24	↓6	>100
32	Manuel	23	↓10	>100
33	Takashi	23	new	>100
34	Kazuo	22	↑6	>100
35	Toshio	22	↓7	>100
36	Francis	20	↓2	34
37	Lawrence	20	↑8	36
38	Alexander	19	new	>100
39	Benjamin	19	↓10	86
40	Jack	19	new	17
41	Mitsuo	19	↓4	>100
42	Susumu	19	new	>100
43	Tamotsu	19	new	>100
44	Haruo	18	new	>100
45	Shigeo	18	new	>100
46	Shigeru	18	↓3	>100
47	Isamu	17	↓16	>100
48	Arthur	16	↓9	19
49	Donald	16	new	10
50	Katsumi	16	new	>100

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