Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1930

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1930 were Mary for girls (122 babies) and George for boys (190). George ranked #8 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,787 babies born in Hawaii in 1930 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1930

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

Girls

Sumiko: 19 babies, 229.3× the national rate
Sachiko: 18 babies, 202.2× the national rate
Emiko: 16 babies, 168.1× the national rate
Yoshiko: 15 babies, 148.1× the national rate
Lily: 25 babies, 26.7× the national rate
Amy: 16 babies, 13.5× the national rate
May: 20 babies, 11.8× the national rate
Mabel: 32 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Violet: 40 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Flora: 16 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Mitsuo: 17 babies, 243.5× the national rate
Hiroshi: 16 babies, 219.6× the national rate
Masao: 16 babies, 219.6× the national rate
Yoshio: 19 babies, 195.6× the national rate
Alfredo: 15 babies, 18.4× the national rate
Abraham: 17 babies, 16.2× the national rate
Wilfred: 21 babies, 11.5× the national rate
Alexander: 19 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Benjamin: 29 babies, 6× the national rate
Stanley: 74 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1930

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	Mary	122	↑1	1
2	Helen	96	↓1	4
3	Betty	88	↑2	2
4	Alice	79	↓1	20
5	Margaret	74	↑3	5
6	Mildred	71	–	21
7	Dorothy	63	↓3	3
8	Nancy	60	↑11	24
9	Jane	58	↑15	55
10	Rose	57	↑4	29
11	Lillian	48	↓1	44
12	Doris	46	↓3	9
13	Elizabeth	46	↓6	15
14	Evelyn	46	↑3	19
15	Florence	46	↓2	38
16	Grace	42	↑5	62
17	Violet	40	↓1	>100
18	Eleanor	38	↓3	39
19	Irene	38	↑3	33
20	Beatrice	37	↓8	76
21	Janet	35	↑22	53
22	Ruth	35	↑8	10
23	Annie	34	↑12	40
24	Josephine	33	↑7	49
25	Thelma	33	↑15	45
26	Edith	32	↑3	61
27	Mabel	32	↑5	>100
28	Virginia	32	↑19	12
29	Bernice	31	↑4	58
30	Gladys	31	↓19	48
31	Jean	31	↑15	14
32	Ethel	30	↓9	65
33	Frances	29	↓15	16
34	Shirley	29	new	11
35	Lorraine	28	↓8	46
36	Barbara	27	↓11	6
37	Dolores	26	↓11	13
38	Clara	25	new	64
39	Elaine	25	↑9	69
40	Elsie	25	↓2	88
41	Katherine	25	↓21	85
42	Lily	25	↑7	>100
43	Julia	24	new	90
44	Agnes	21	↓16	>100
45	Harriet	21	↓6	>100
46	Patricia	21	↓2	7
47	May	20	↑3	>100
48	Vivian	20	new	91
49	Loretta	19	new	>100
50	Maria	19	new	99

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1929	US rank
1	George	190	–	8
2	Richard	145	↑1	5
3	James	144	↓1	2
4	Robert	115	–	1
5	Henry	99	↑2	22
6	William	99	↓1	4
7	John	92	↓1	3
8	Joseph	91	↑1	9
9	Edward	79	↑1	10
10	Raymond	74	↑7	16
11	Stanley	74	↑13	49
12	Charles	72	↓1	6
13	Herbert	72	↓5	35
14	Harry	70	↓1	28
15	Thomas	64	↑5	11
16	Albert	63	↓1	24
17	Kenneth	59	↑1	17
18	Lawrence	55	↓2	36
19	David	54	↓5	15
20	Harold	54	↑2	18
21	Walter	52	↓9	19
22	Francis	49	↓1	42
23	Donald	48	–	7
24	Daniel	38	↑2	47
25	Paul	37	↑4	12
26	Clarence	36	↓7	39
27	Gilbert	36	↑3	90
28	Samuel	35	↑3	55
29	Frank	33	↓1	13
30	Alfred	31	↓5	46
31	Ernest	31	↑5	43
32	Benjamin	29	↓5	>100
33	Howard	26	new	31
34	Arthur	25	–	23
35	Edwin	25	↑10	66
36	Manuel	25	↑3	>100
37	Peter	22	↑6	56
38	Wilfred	21	↑2	>100
39	Alexander	19	new	>100
40	Louis	19	↓8	34
41	Yoshio	19	–	>100
42	Fred	18	new	32
43	Wallace	18	↓10	>100
44	Abraham	17	↑2	>100
45	Jack	17	new	14
46	Mitsuo	17	↓9	>100
47	Norman	17	new	40
48	Ronald	17	new	37
49	Roy	17	new	33
50	Frederick	16	new	74

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