Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1935

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1935 were Shirley for girls (147 babies) and Richard for boys (146). Shirley ranked #2 nationally for girls. Richard ranked #5 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,065 babies born in Hawaii in 1935 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1935

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

Girls

Winona: 17 babies, 34.2× the national rate
Amy: 27 babies, 28.9× the national rate
May: 15 babies, 14.8× the national rate
Violet: 25 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Jane: 83 babies, 6.2× the national rate
Caroline: 17 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Florence: 45 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Harriet: 17 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Elsie: 26 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Mae: 16 babies, 4.4× the national rate

Boys

Alfredo: 17 babies, 29× the national rate
Wilfred: 21 babies, 17.5× the national rate
Alexander: 15 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Stanley: 75 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Benjamin: 27 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Wallace: 21 babies, 6× the national rate
Gilbert: 28 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Manuel: 17 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Herbert: 41 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Edwin: 25 babies, 3.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1935

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Shirley	147	↑8	2
2	Jane	83	↑8	43
3	Mary	81	↓1	1
4	Betty	74	–	4
5	Barbara	66	↓2	3
6	Jean	65	↓1	18
7	Helen	62	↓6	10
8	Dorothy	55	↑3	6
9	Mildred	48	↑11	35
10	Margaret	47	↑3	8
11	Florence	45	↓4	74
12	Nancy	43	–	9
13	Doris	41	↑13	13
14	Patricia	41	↑9	5
15	Alice	40	↓1	25
16	Frances	40	↑2	19
17	Janet	40	↓11	22
18	Elizabeth	39	↓3	17
19	Rose	39	↑11	37
20	Lorraine	37	↓3	68
21	Dolores	36	↑6	26
22	Eleanor	36	↑15	48
23	Lillian	36	↓15	66
24	Carol	34	new	11
25	Ruth	34	↓9	15
26	Grace	33	↓4	83
27	Joan	31	↓8	7
28	Loretta	31	↑4	69
29	Elaine	28	↓8	51
30	June	28	↑14	55
31	Amy	27	↑2	>100
32	Gladys	27	↓8	78
33	Irene	27	↓4	52
34	Elsie	26	↑2	>100
35	Evelyn	25	↓7	31
36	Katherine	25	↑3	>100
37	Violet	25	↓12	>100
38	Sally	24	new	58
39	Sylvia	24	↑7	60
40	Ellen	23	↓2	95
41	Esther	23	new	94
42	Jeanette	23	new	>100
43	Charlotte	21	new	65
44	Ethel	20	↓10	82
45	Bernice	19	new	90
46	Edna	19	new	67
47	Joyce	19	↑1	12
48	Juanita	19	new	72
49	Edith	18	↓4	87
50	Josephine	18	↓8	75

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1934	US rank
1	Richard	146	–	5
2	George	143	–	8
3	Robert	138	↑1	1
4	James	121	↓1	2
5	William	103	↑1	4
6	John	99	↓1	3
7	Edward	94	↑4	13
8	Donald	77	↓1	7
9	Stanley	75	↑4	56
10	Thomas	74	↓2	9
11	David	65	↑3	11
12	Kenneth	65	–	15
13	Joseph	64	↓3	10
14	Henry	63	↑3	27
15	Charles	59	↓6	6
16	Raymond	56	↑6	17
17	Albert	45	↓2	31
18	Walter	45	↑1	23
19	Paul	44	↑4	14
20	Harry	42	↓4	37
21	Harold	41	–	20
22	Herbert	41	↓4	58
23	Roy	41	↑5	40
24	Lawrence	39	↑1	35
25	Ronald	37	↓5	12
26	Clarence	35	↑3	48
27	Francis	35	↑3	53
28	Arthur	28	↑10	29
29	Gilbert	28	↓2	>100
30	Benjamin	27	↑4	>100
31	Frank	27	↑6	16
32	Melvin	27	↑17	57
33	Daniel	26	↓7	43
34	Norman	26	↑9	38
35	Edwin	25	↑1	89
36	Ernest	25	↓12	55
37	Theodore	24	↑2	79
38	Samuel	23	↓6	62
39	Peter	21	new	59
40	Wallace	21	↓5	>100
41	Wilfred	21	↑5	>100
42	Eugene	20	↑2	26
43	Howard	20	↑5	39
44	Anthony	18	new	52
45	Franklin	18	↓14	71
46	Gordon	18	↓6	70
47	Alfredo	17	new	>100
48	Alvin	17	new	91
49	Manuel	17	new	>100
50	Ralph	17	↓9	32

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