Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1937

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1937 were Barbara for girls (88 babies) and Robert for boys (166). Barbara ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 6,103 babies born in Hawaii in 1937 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1937

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: 19 babies, 39× the national rate
Amy: 33 babies, 35.7× the national rate
Harriet: 32 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Violet: 23 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Jane: 77 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Mae: 16 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Gwendolyn: 15 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Florence: 40 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Lorraine: 38 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Irene: 43 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Boys

Wilfred: 18 babies, 15.7× the national rate
Stanley: 79 babies, 7.8× the national rate
Benjamin: 30 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Wallace: 22 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Francis: 52 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Herbert: 40 babies, 4.5× the national rate
Edwin: 28 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Gilbert: 20 babies, 4.1× the national rate
Roy: 56 babies, 4× the national rate
Calvin: 15 babies, 3.9× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1937

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Barbara	88	↑2	2
2	Jane	77	–	42
3	Betty	73	↑4	5
4	Shirley	71	↓3	4
5	Mary	69	↑1	1
6	Patricia	59	↑10	3
7	Jean	58	↓3	23
8	Janet	53	↑5	18
9	Helen	48	↓4	12
10	Frances	47	↑8	19
11	Elizabeth	46	↑6	17
12	Nancy	45	↓2	7
13	Irene	43	↑2	62
14	Margaret	42	–	10
15	Carol	41	↑14	6
16	Florence	40	↑5	81
17	Dorothy	38	↑3	8
18	Lorraine	38	↑5	83
19	Elaine	35	↑3	45
20	Eleanor	35	↓12	53
21	June	34	↓2	71
22	Alice	33	↓10	28
23	Amy	33	↑21	>100
24	Harriet	32	↑21	>100
25	Lillian	32	↓14	84
26	Doris	30	↓1	22
27	Loretta	30	↑12	63
28	Evelyn	29	↑14	36
29	Sylvia	29	↑2	50
30	Gladys	27	↑8	86
31	Charlotte	26	new	67
32	Dolores	26	↓8	37
33	Joyce	25	↓3	11
34	Patsy	25	↑1	54
35	Rose	25	↑5	38
36	Ruth	25	↓8	15
37	Mildred	24	↓28	43
38	Thelma	24	new	78
39	Violet	23	↓13	>100
40	Elsie	22	↑8	>100
41	Edith	21	↓14	96
42	Josephine	21	↓10	82
43	Ruby	21	new	52
44	Jeanette	20	new	90
45	Joan	19	↓2	9
46	Virginia	19	new	16
47	Winona	19	new	>100
48	Annette	18	new	>100
49	Janice	18	new	25
50	Norma	18	new	33

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1936	US rank
1	Robert	166	↑1	1
2	Richard	137	↓1	5
3	George	134	–	10
4	James	123	–	2
5	John	105	↑1	3
6	William	92	↓1	4
7	Ronald	81	↑9	11
8	Stanley	79	–	57
9	Joseph	76	↑1	12
10	Edward	73	↑1	13
11	Donald	70	↓4	7
12	Kenneth	70	↓3	14
13	Thomas	64	↓1	9
14	Roy	56	↑7	40
15	Charles	54	↓2	6
16	David	54	↓2	8
17	Henry	53	↑1	30
18	Francis	52	↑8	55
19	Raymond	50	↑4	19
20	Paul	49	↑2	15
21	Walter	48	↓2	26
22	Lawrence	44	↑3	38
23	Harold	42	↓6	21
24	Albert	41	↓9	37
25	Herbert	40	↓5	65
26	Harry	35	↑1	41
27	Ernest	34	↓3	53
28	Norman	33	↑10	43
29	Benjamin	30	↑5	>100
30	Frank	29	↑12	18
31	Edwin	28	↓3	89
32	Eugene	28	↑8	33
33	Frederick	28	↑3	68
34	Clarence	27	↓5	54
35	Daniel	27	↓4	39
36	Melvin	27	↑1	50
37	Samuel	27	↑11	66
38	Michael	26	↑6	27
39	Howard	25	↓6	42
40	Ralph	23	↑1	34
41	Gordon	22	new	75
42	Wallace	22	↑3	>100
43	Alvin	21	new	99
44	Anthony	21	new	47
45	Gerald	21	↓2	20
46	Gilbert	20	↓14	>100
47	Peter	18	–	52
48	Wilfred	18	↓2	>100
49	Larry	17	new	16
50	Patrick	17	↓15	94

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