Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1927

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1927 were Helen for girls (102 babies) and George for boys (173). Helen ranked #4 nationally for girls. George ranked #7 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,947 babies born in Hawaii in 1927 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1927

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

Girls

Sumie: 20 babies, 306.7× the national rate
Mitsue: 19 babies, 291.3× the national rate
Harue: 15 babies, 268.3× the national rate
Chieko: 15 babies, 254.2× the national rate
Yaeko: 15 babies, 230× the national rate
Kiyoko: 27 babies, 228.8× the national rate
Sadako: 17 babies, 219× the national rate
Chiyoko: 20 babies, 201.3× the national rate
Shigeko: 15 babies, 201.3× the national rate
Fumiko: 21 babies, 193.2× the national rate

Boys

Takeo: 18 babies, 284.2× the national rate
Mitsuo: 26 babies, 265.6× the national rate
Masao: 24 babies, 252.6× the national rate
Noboru: 18 babies, 250.1× the national rate
Kiyoshi: 25 babies, 228.5× the national rate
Tsutomu: 16 babies, 222.3× the national rate
Isamu: 17 babies, 210.9× the national rate
Shigeru: 18 babies, 201.7× the national rate
Toshio: 19 babies, 200× the national rate
Teruo: 21 babies, 197.2× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1927

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	Helen	102	↑1	4
2	Mary	95	↓1	1
3	Dorothy	84	–	2
4	Margaret	80	↑2	5
5	Alice	79	–	17
6	Betty	76	↓2	3
7	Mildred	66	–	11
8	Florence	62	↑7	28
9	Jane	53	↑12	60
10	Gladys	50	↑16	37
11	Ruth	50	↑3	6
12	Elizabeth	44	↓3	13
13	Jean	44	↓3	14
14	Rose	44	↓3	23
15	Beatrice	42	↑5	67
16	Eleanor	42	↓4	33
17	Nancy	41	–	56
18	Barbara	38	↑14	10
19	Lillian	38	↓6	32
20	Violet	38	↓12	>100
21	Frances	37	↓5	12
22	Evelyn	36	↑6	15
23	Grace	35	↑7	50
24	Mabel	34	↑14	>100
25	Doris	33	↓1	7
26	Bernice	32	new	49
27	Josephine	29	↑7	39
28	Annie	28	↓6	36
29	Irene	27	↓2	21
30	Kiyoko	27	new	>100
31	Ethel	25	↓6	47
32	Thelma	25	↓1	38
33	Edith	24	↑15	48
34	Esther	24	↑6	65
35	Katherine	24	↓12	73
36	Yoshiko	24	↓17	>100
37	Harriet	22	new	>100
38	Amy	21	↑4	>100
39	Clara	21	↓10	63
40	Elsie	21	↓22	72
41	Fumiko	21	new	>100
42	Kazuko	21	new	>100
43	Lorraine	21	new	44
44	Chiyoko	20	new	>100
45	Sumie	20	new	>100
46	Agnes	19	new	81
47	Edna	19	↓12	40
48	Flora	19	new	>100
49	Mitsue	19	new	>100
50	Sarah	19	new	61

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1926	US rank
1	George	173	–	7
2	Robert	114	↑3	1
3	James	113	–	3
4	John	112	–	2
5	Richard	110	↓3	6
6	William	110	–	4
7	Joseph	86	–	9
8	Henry	73	↑1	19
9	Thomas	69	↑5	11
10	Walter	64	↑5	17
11	Charles	61	↓1	5
12	Albert	60	–	23
13	Edward	60	↓5	10
14	Kenneth	46	↑15	18
15	Harry	41	↑1	25
16	David	40	↓5	21
17	Alfred	38	↑6	45
18	Herbert	38	↓1	42
19	Raymond	38	↓6	15
20	Stanley	37	↑2	44
21	Donald	36	↑14	8
22	Arthur	35	↑20	22
23	Shoji	35	new	>100
24	Ernest	34	↓5	41
25	Frank	34	↓5	12
26	Clarence	33	↓2	32
27	Harold	33	↑1	14
28	Francis	31	↓1	36
29	Hiroshi	31	↑2	>100
30	Paul	31	↑3	13
31	Lawrence	30	↓10	37
32	Manuel	28	↓6	>100
33	Mitsuo	26	↑14	>100
34	Kiyoshi	25	↑5	>100
35	Benjamin	24	↑15	>100
36	Masao	24	↓2	>100
37	Daniel	23	↓12	46
38	Edwin	21	new	57
39	Samuel	21	↓21	49
40	Teruo	21	new	>100
41	Yoshio	21	↓4	>100
42	Peter	20	new	59
43	Toshio	19	↑6	>100
44	Noboru	18	new	>100
45	Shigeru	18	↓5	>100
46	Takeo	18	new	>100
47	Akira	17	new	>100
48	Alexander	17	new	>100
49	Eugene	17	new	20
50	Hideo	17	↓14	>100

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