Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1934

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1934 were Helen for girls (80 babies) and Richard for boys (146). Helen ranked #9 nationally for girls. Richard ranked #5 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,066 babies born in Hawaii in 1934 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1934

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: 28 babies, 30.4× the national rate
May: 18 babies, 17× the national rate
Violet: 32 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Harriet: 24 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Mabel: 16 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Florence: 59 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Lillian: 57 babies, 5× the national rate
Mae: 19 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Jane: 56 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Agnes: 23 babies, 4.2× the national rate

Boys

Wilfred: 20 babies, 15.9× the national rate
Alexander: 21 babies, 11.4× the national rate
Wallace: 28 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Gilbert: 35 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Benjamin: 29 babies, 6.6× the national rate
Rudolph: 15 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Stanley: 64 babies, 6× the national rate
Herbert: 53 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Manuel: 16 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Harry: 60 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1934

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Helen	80	↑3	9
2	Mary	71	↓1	1
3	Barbara	67	↓1	3
4	Betty	67	↑1	2
5	Jean	65	↑2	16
6	Janet	62	↑4	21
7	Florence	59	↑4	61
8	Lillian	57	↑14	52
9	Shirley	57	↑5	4
10	Jane	56	↓4	48
11	Dorothy	54	↓8	5
12	Nancy	53	↑1	10
13	Margaret	50	↓4	8
14	Alice	48	↓6	25
15	Elizabeth	45	↑8	18
16	Ruth	38	↑2	13
17	Lorraine	35	↑11	56
18	Frances	34	↑2	19
19	Joan	34	↑27	7
20	Mildred	34	↓8	35
21	Elaine	33	↓2	54
22	Grace	33	↑9	79
23	Patricia	33	↑6	6
24	Gladys	32	↑10	66
25	Violet	32	↓9	>100
26	Doris	31	↓11	11
27	Dolores	30	↓6	26
28	Evelyn	30	↓4	29
29	Irene	30	↓3	49
30	Rose	30	↓13	37
31	Thelma	30	↑6	65
32	Loretta	29	↑7	83
33	Amy	28	↓3	>100
34	Ethel	28	↑2	78
35	Beatrice	27	–	99
36	Elsie	26	↓3	>100
37	Eleanor	25	↓12	44
38	Ellen	25	↑5	95
39	Katherine	25	↓12	>100
40	Harriet	24	new	>100
41	Agnes	23	↓1	>100
42	Josephine	23	↑8	60
43	Clara	22	↑5	76
44	June	22	↓12	46
45	Edith	20	↓4	81
46	Sylvia	20	↓8	70
47	Audrey	19	new	69
48	Joyce	19	↓1	12
49	Mae	19	new	>100
50	May	18	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1933	US rank
1	Richard	146	↑1	5
2	George	132	↓1	8
3	James	123	↑1	2
4	Robert	112	↓1	1
5	John	100	–	3
6	William	99	↑1	4
7	Donald	81	↑7	6
8	Thomas	78	–	9
9	Charles	72	↓3	7
10	Joseph	72	↓1	10
11	Edward	71	–	13
12	Kenneth	69	↓2	15
13	Stanley	64	–	58
14	David	62	↑4	12
15	Albert	61	↑1	32
16	Harry	60	↑5	36
17	Henry	54	↓5	27
18	Herbert	53	↓3	57
19	Walter	53	↓2	21
20	Ronald	51	↑2	11
21	Harold	45	↑5	18
22	Raymond	42	↓3	19
23	Paul	41	↑4	14
24	Ernest	38	↑8	51
25	Lawrence	38	↓5	34
26	Daniel	37	↑10	42
27	Gilbert	35	↑14	>100
28	Roy	34	↑16	35
29	Clarence	33	↓4	45
30	Francis	32	↑7	49
31	Franklin	32	↓1	46
32	Samuel	31	↑7	66
33	Alfred	29	↓10	64
34	Benjamin	29	↓6	>100
35	Wallace	28	–	>100
36	Edwin	27	↓7	80
37	Frank	26	↓13	16
38	Arthur	25	↓7	29
39	Theodore	23	↑8	74
40	Gordon	22	↑9	71
41	Ralph	22	↑2	31
42	Alexander	21	↑8	>100
43	Norman	21	↑3	38
44	Eugene	20	new	24
45	Jerry	20	new	25
46	Wilfred	20	↓13	>100
47	Frederick	19	↑1	77
48	Howard	19	new	37
49	Melvin	19	new	55
50	Gerald	17	new	22

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