Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1926

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1926 were Mary for girls (113 babies) and George for boys (127). George ranked #6 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,660 babies born in Hawaii in 1926 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1926

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

Girls

Sueko: 18 babies, 317.9× the national rate
Mitsue: 18 babies, 302× the national rate
Fumie: 15 babies, 296× the national rate
Midori: 15 babies, 296× the national rate
Yaeko: 20 babies, 291.8× the national rate
Kimie: 15 babies, 279.6× the national rate
Sumiko: 23 babies, 266.1× the national rate
Yoshie: 21 babies, 261× the national rate
Shizue: 25 babies, 254.2× the national rate
Mitsuko: 19 babies, 219.8× the national rate

Boys

Isamu: 20 babies, 273.2× the national rate
Sadao: 16 babies, 258.3× the national rate
Yukio: 15 babies, 253.7× the national rate
Masao: 24 babies, 250.7× the national rate
Torao: 19 babies, 249.9× the national rate
Tsutomu: 15 babies, 242.1× the national rate
Takashi: 28 babies, 236.8× the national rate
Shigeo: 16 babies, 236.8× the national rate
Mitsuo: 19 babies, 232.7× the national rate
Masaru: 17 babies, 223.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1926

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	Mary	113	–	1
2	Helen	91	–	4
3	Dorothy	82	↑1	2
4	Betty	74	↑1	3
5	Alice	68	↑1	17
6	Margaret	60	↓3	5
7	Mildred	60	–	9
8	Violet	58	↑2	94
9	Elizabeth	53	↑7	11
10	Jean	42	↑12	12
11	Rose	42	↑1	25
12	Eleanor	41	↑7	32
13	Lillian	41	↑10	28
14	Ruth	40	↑6	6
15	Florence	38	↑2	26
16	Frances	38	↓3	10
17	Nancy	37	↓3	57
18	Elsie	36	↑16	69
19	Yoshiko	35	↑20	>100
20	Beatrice	34	↓11	58
21	Jane	34	↓3	56
22	Annie	33	↑22	34
23	Katherine	33	↓12	72
24	Doris	32	↓9	7
25	Ethel	32	↑5	41
26	Gladys	32	↓18	35
27	Irene	32	↓1	21
28	Evelyn	30	↓7	13
29	Clara	29	new	61
30	Grace	29	↑1	46
31	Thelma	29	↓7	36
32	Barbara	28	↓4	16
33	Janet	27	↓6	>100
34	Josephine	27	↓2	37
35	Edna	25	↑6	38
36	Shizue	25	↓1	>100
37	Aiko	24	new	>100
38	Mabel	23	↑10	>100
39	Sumiko	23	new	>100
40	Esther	22	↑7	62
41	Julia	22	new	75
42	Amy	21	new	>100
43	Haruko	21	new	>100
44	Marie	21	new	18
45	Yoshie	21	↑5	>100
46	Elaine	20	new	68
47	Yaeko	20	↓4	>100
48	Edith	19	↓11	42
49	Maria	19	–	>100
50	Mitsuko	19	↓17	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1925	US rank
1	George	127	–	6
2	Richard	108	↑4	7
3	James	104	↑2	3
4	John	104	↓1	2
5	Robert	104	↓1	1
6	William	90	↓4	4
7	Joseph	80	–	8
8	Edward	70	↑2	10
9	Henry	60	–	19
10	Charles	55	↑1	5
11	David	53	↑2	22
12	Albert	52	↓4	21
13	Raymond	52	↑7	15
14	Thomas	49	–	11
15	Walter	47	↓3	17
16	Harry	38	–	25
17	Herbert	37	↑6	44
18	Samuel	36	↑20	48
19	Ernest	31	↓2	37
20	Frank	31	↑9	12
21	Lawrence	31	↑10	36
22	Stanley	31	↑2	43
23	Alfred	30	↑10	45
24	Clarence	29	↑4	29
25	Daniel	29	↓4	46
26	Manuel	29	↑6	>100
27	Francis	28	↓5	35
28	Harold	28	↓13	14
29	Kenneth	28	↓11	18
30	Takashi	28	↑12	>100
31	Hiroshi	26	↓6	>100
32	Minoru	26	new	>100
33	Paul	26	↓14	13
34	Masao	24	↑5	>100
35	Donald	23	↑15	9
36	Hideo	23	↓10	>100
37	Yoshio	23	↓10	>100
38	Gilbert	22	new	>100
39	Kiyoshi	22	↓5	>100
40	Shigeru	22	new	>100
41	Takeshi	22	↑5	>100
42	Arthur	21	↑1	20
43	Isamu	20	↑5	>100
44	Howard	19	new	27
45	Larry	19	new	>100
46	Louis	19	↓2	30
47	Mitsuo	19	↓17	>100
48	Torao	19	new	>100
49	Toshio	19	↓14	>100
50	Benjamin	18	↓10	98

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