Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1938

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1938 were Barbara for girls (83 babies) and Robert for boys (201). Barbara ranked #2 nationally for girls. Social Security records list 6,302 babies born in Hawaii in 1938 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1938

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: 31 babies, 31.9× the national rate
May: 16 babies, 21.3× the national rate
Violet: 22 babies, 8.4× the national rate
Caroline: 18 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Grace: 39 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Jane: 69 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Harriet: 20 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Lorraine: 32 babies, 4.3× the national rate
Beatrice: 22 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Elsie: 20 babies, 4.1× the national rate

Boys

Wilfred: 28 babies, 23.5× the national rate
Benjamin: 36 babies, 8.6× the national rate
Wallace: 29 babies, 8.3× the national rate
Stanley: 83 babies, 7.9× the national rate
Edwin: 43 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Gilbert: 25 babies, 5.3× the national rate
Calvin: 22 babies, 5.1× the national rate
Roy: 73 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Alvin: 27 babies, 4.4× the national rate
Allan: 18 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1938

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Barbara	83	–	2
2	Patricia	79	↑4	3
3	Jean	74	↑4	27
4	Jane	69	↓2	44
5	Mary	63	–	1
6	Betty	52	↓3	4
7	Nancy	51	↑5	7
8	Janet	50	–	16
9	Shirley	50	↓5	5
10	Carol	49	↑5	6
11	Mildred	42	↑26	52
12	Alice	40	↑10	29
13	Elaine	39	↑6	42
14	Grace	39	new	100
15	Helen	39	↓6	13
16	Doris	38	↑10	25
17	Frances	38	↓7	23
18	Elizabeth	36	↓7	17
19	Dorothy	35	↓2	8
20	Margaret	35	↓6	9
21	Evelyn	34	↑7	38
22	Eleanor	32	↓2	60
23	Lorraine	32	↓5	93
24	Amy	31	↓1	>100
25	Ellen	31	new	89
26	Florence	31	↓10	90
27	Judith	31	new	12
28	Jeanette	30	↑16	91
29	Lillian	30	↓4	88
30	Geraldine	28	new	45
31	Loretta	28	↓4	62
32	Sylvia	28	↓3	56
33	Irene	27	↓20	72
34	Ruth	27	↑2	21
35	Dolores	25	↓3	43
36	Josephine	25	↑6	83
37	June	25	↓16	79
38	Gladys	24	↓8	>100
39	Yvonne	24	new	>100
40	Charlotte	23	↓9	70
41	Beatrice	22	new	>100
42	Joan	22	↑3	10
43	Joyce	22	↓10	11
44	Katherine	22	new	>100
45	Sally	22	new	54
46	Violet	22	↓7	>100
47	Elsie	20	↓7	>100
48	Ethel	20	new	94
49	Harriet	20	↓25	>100
50	Rose	20	↓15	39

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1937	US rank
1	Robert	201	–	1
2	James	131	↑2	2
3	George	123	–	11
4	Richard	122	↓2	5
5	John	107	–	3
6	Kenneth	93	↑6	14
7	William	91	↓1	4
8	Edward	84	↑2	13
9	Stanley	83	↓1	59
10	Thomas	81	↑3	9
11	Roy	73	↑3	41
12	Ronald	69	↓5	10
13	Donald	59	↓2	7
14	Joseph	58	↓5	12
15	David	57	↑1	8
16	Charles	56	↓1	6
17	Harold	54	↑6	23
18	Raymond	48	↑1	20
19	Lawrence	47	↑3	36
20	Paul	47	–	15
21	Walter	45	–	26
22	Edwin	43	↑9	90
23	Henry	43	↓6	30
24	Harry	42	↑2	44
25	Benjamin	36	↑4	>100
26	Francis	36	↓8	51
27	Daniel	34	↑8	39
28	Albert	32	↓4	37
29	Herbert	32	↓4	68
30	Michael	31	↑8	21
31	Wallace	29	↑11	>100
32	Melvin	28	↑4	54
33	Wilfred	28	↑15	>100
34	Alvin	27	↑9	98
35	Ernest	27	↓8	55
36	Anthony	26	↑8	46
37	Clarence	26	↓3	58
38	Howard	26	↑1	42
39	Norman	26	↓11	43
40	Eugene	25	↓8	33
41	Frank	25	↓11	18
42	Gilbert	25	↑4	>100
43	Frederick	24	↓10	71
44	Gerald	24	↑1	19
45	Alfred	23	new	69
46	Clifford	23	new	89
47	Peter	23	–	48
48	Calvin	22	new	>100
49	Patrick	22	↑1	88
50	Samuel	21	↓13	62

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