Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1929

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1929 were Helen for girls (109 babies) and George for boys (193). Helen ranked #4 nationally for girls. George ranked #8 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,752 babies born in Hawaii in 1929 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1929

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

Girls

Yoshie: 17 babies, 299.9× the national rate
Yaeko: 17 babies, 234.7× the national rate
Miyoko: 22 babies, 199.6× the national rate
Setsuko: 15 babies, 198.5× the national rate
Sumiko: 18 babies, 173.2× the national rate
Masako: 15 babies, 170.1× the national rate
Lily: 18 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Amy: 20 babies, 18.5× the national rate
May: 18 babies, 9.9× the national rate
Violet: 43 babies, 6.2× the national rate

Boys

Susumu: 15 babies, 293.3× the national rate
Mitsuo: 22 babies, 261.2× the national rate
Masao: 17 babies, 235.4× the national rate
Toshio: 15 babies, 226.6× the national rate
Takashi: 15 babies, 216.8× the national rate
Hideo: 18 babies, 213.7× the national rate
Akira: 20 babies, 195.5× the national rate
Hiroshi: 25 babies, 193.3× the national rate
Yoshio: 20 babies, 174.9× the national rate
Abraham: 15 babies, 14.5× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1929

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	Helen	109	–	4
2	Mary	108	–	1
3	Alice	90	↑3	21
4	Dorothy	89	↑1	3
5	Betty	84	↓2	2
6	Mildred	72	↑1	18
7	Elizabeth	68	↑3	15
8	Margaret	67	↓4	5
9	Doris	59	↑5	6
10	Lillian	53	↑2	40
11	Gladys	49	–	44
12	Beatrice	48	↑8	72
13	Florence	48	↓5	35
14	Rose	46	↓5	26
15	Eleanor	45	↑10	38
16	Violet	43	↑13	>100
17	Evelyn	42	↑4	19
18	Frances	42	↓3	16
19	Nancy	42	↑13	32
20	Katherine	38	↓1	84
21	Grace	35	↓8	54
22	Irene	32	↓5	29
23	Ethel	31	↑4	56
24	Jane	31	↓6	62
25	Barbara	29	↑13	7
26	Dolores	29	new	14
27	Lorraine	29	↑19	42
28	Agnes	28	↑5	94
29	Edith	27	↓7	59
30	Ruth	27	↓14	8
31	Josephine	26	↑6	45
32	Mabel	25	↓8	>100
33	Bernice	24	↑6	55
34	Marjorie	23	new	30
35	Annie	22	↓9	37
36	Hazel	22	↑11	64
37	Miyoko	22	new	>100
38	Elsie	21	↓4	78
39	Harriet	21	↓3	>100
40	Thelma	21	↓9	41
41	Amy	20	new	>100
42	Ellen	20	↓7	97
43	Janet	20	↑5	82
44	Patricia	20	new	10
45	Geraldine	19	new	43
46	Jean	19	new	12
47	Virginia	19	↓17	11
48	Elaine	18	↓4	67
49	Lily	18	↓21	>100
50	May	18	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1928	US rank
1	George	193	–	8
2	James	151	–	2
3	Richard	129	–	6
4	Robert	121	↑3	1
5	William	119	↓1	4
6	John	109	–	3
7	Henry	101	↓2	21
8	Herbert	95	↑5	25
9	Joseph	87	↑1	9
10	Edward	78	↓2	10
11	Charles	75	↓2	5
12	Walter	66	↓1	19
13	Harry	65	↑2	27
14	David	59	–	17
15	Albert	50	↓3	24
16	Lawrence	46	↑19	38
17	Raymond	44	↓1	15
18	Kenneth	42	–	18
19	Clarence	41	↓2	37
20	Thomas	40	↓1	11
21	Francis	37	↑8	39
22	Harold	37	↓2	16
23	Donald	36	↑4	7
24	Stanley	35	↑6	48
25	Alfred	32	↓4	41
26	Daniel	32	↓2	47
27	Benjamin	31	↓5	>100
28	Frank	30	↓5	12
29	Paul	29	↓3	13
30	Gilbert	28	↑7	91
31	Samuel	28	↓3	53
32	Louis	27	↑14	32
33	Wallace	26	↑9	>100
34	Arthur	25	–	22
35	Hiroshi	25	↑3	>100
36	Ernest	22	↓11	43
37	Mitsuo	22	↑10	>100
38	Akira	20	new	>100
39	Manuel	20	↓7	>100
40	Wilfred	20	new	>100
41	Yoshio	20	↑2	>100
42	Hideo	18	new	>100
43	Peter	18	↓7	55
44	Masao	17	↓4	>100
45	Edwin	16	↓14	66
46	Abraham	15	new	>100
47	Jose	15	new	>100
48	Patrick	15	new	>100
49	Susumu	15	new	>100
50	Takashi	15	new	>100

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