Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1932

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1932 were Mary for girls (101 babies) and George for boys (199). George ranked #8 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,697 babies born in Hawaii in 1932 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1932

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

Girls

Amy: 35 babies, 32.8× the national rate
May: 17 babies, 12.3× the national rate
Violet: 34 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Beatrice: 47 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Mabel: 18 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Jane: 70 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Florence: 68 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Grace: 48 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Lillian: 53 babies, 3.9× the national rate
Elsie: 29 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Boys

Alfredo: 18 babies, 25.1× the national rate
Wilfred: 18 babies, 10.7× the national rate
Manuel: 33 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Wallace: 29 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Benjamin: 27 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Herbert: 70 babies, 5× the national rate
Gilbert: 29 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Stanley: 53 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Clarence: 56 babies, 3.6× the national rate
Edwin: 30 babies, 3.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1932

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	Mary	101	–	1
2	Betty	82	–	2
3	Dorothy	78	↑2	4
4	Barbara	73	↑7	3
5	Helen	73	↓1	8
6	Jane	70	↑2	49
7	Florence	68	↓1	47
8	Alice	65	↓5	21
9	Mildred	65	–	26
10	Nancy	60	↑4	13
11	Janet	54	↑16	35
12	Lillian	53	↑1	48
13	Margaret	52	↓6	7
14	Doris	48	↓2	10
15	Grace	48	↑2	72
16	Jean	48	↑6	15
17	Beatrice	47	↑8	87
18	Eleanor	45	↑3	45
19	Ruth	44	↓4	11
20	Elizabeth	42	↓10	17
21	Frances	42	↓2	19
22	Irene	40	↑17	43
23	Dolores	38	↑11	18
24	Gladys	36	↓8	54
25	Amy	35	↑15	>100
26	Rose	34	↓3	33
27	Violet	34	↓3	>100
28	Evelyn	31	↑3	23
29	Patricia	31	↓1	6
30	Elaine	30	↓10	68
31	Loretta	30	↑5	89
32	Lorraine	30	↑1	55
33	Shirley	30	↑10	9
34	Elsie	29	↑1	97
35	Katherine	29	new	95
36	Thelma	28	↑10	51
37	Edith	27	↑5	69
38	Ellen	26	↑3	>100
39	Bernice	25	↓2	71
40	Martha	25	new	27
41	Ethel	24	↓11	66
42	Josephine	24	↓24	57
43	Marie	24	new	31
44	Joan	23	↑6	5
45	Charlotte	21	↑2	74
46	Joyce	21	new	12
47	Marjorie	21	new	37
48	Julia	20	new	92
49	June	20	↓17	44
50	Agnes	19	↓21	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1931	US rank
1	George	199	–	8
2	Richard	157	↑2	5
3	Robert	146	↓1	1
4	James	142	↓1	2
5	John	110	↑1	3
6	William	107	↓1	4
7	Charles	87	↑4	6
8	Thomas	87	–	10
9	Henry	84	–	23
10	Edward	79	–	11
11	Herbert	70	↑1	44
12	Joseph	70	↓5	9
13	Walter	69	↑3	21
14	Harry	63	–	32
15	Lawrence	60	↑3	35
16	David	59	↑3	12
17	Clarence	56	↑15	40
18	Kenneth	56	↑2	14
19	Albert	55	↓2	26
20	Stanley	53	↑1	52
21	Harold	52	↑1	18
22	Donald	51	↓9	7
23	Raymond	49	↓8	19
24	Frank	38	↑7	15
25	Ernest	37	–	47
26	Paul	34	↓3	13
27	Francis	33	–	43
28	Manuel	33	↑11	>100
29	Alfred	32	↑5	49
30	Edwin	30	↑6	72
31	Gilbert	29	↓5	97
32	Wallace	29	↓3	>100
33	Arthur	28	–	25
34	Benjamin	27	↓4	>100
35	Ronald	24	new	16
36	Roy	24	↑8	38
37	Samuel	21	↓13	56
38	Eugene	20	new	22
39	Ralph	20	new	27
40	Daniel	19	↓12	42
41	Alfredo	18	new	>100
42	Norman	18	↑4	37
43	Wilfred	18	↓2	>100
44	Franklin	17	new	66
45	Anthony	16	new	45
46	Melvin	16	↓6	51
47	Andrew	15	new	69
48	Herman	15	↓3	89
49	Peter	15	↓12	62
50	Alexander	14	↓3	>100

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