Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1940

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1940 were Barbara for girls (90 babies) and Robert for boys (169). Barbara ranked #2 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 6,975 babies born in Hawaii in 1940 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1940

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: 39 babies, 33.9× the national rate
May: 24 babies, 28.5× the national rate
Harriet: 28 babies, 7× the national rate
Violet: 16 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Mae: 18 babies, 6× the national rate
Caroline: 20 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Jane: 84 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Gwendolyn: 20 babies, 5.5× the national rate
Lillian: 36 babies, 4.8× the national rate
Lorraine: 36 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Boys

Wilfred: 17 babies, 16.8× the national rate
Alexander: 17 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Stanley: 81 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Benjamin: 32 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Roy: 112 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Rodney: 25 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Edwin: 34 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Wallace: 18 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Melvin: 51 babies, 4.2× the national rate
Gilbert: 19 babies, 4× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1940

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Barbara	90	–	2
2	Patricia	90	↑1	3
3	Jane	84	↑1	47
4	Carol	78	↑2	6
5	Jean	77	–	29
6	Mary	66	↓4	1
7	Elizabeth	55	↑2	20
8	Janet	54	↑2	19
9	Betty	52	↑4	5
10	Judith	52	↑9	4
11	Nancy	50	–	7
12	Joyce	48	↓4	13
13	Elaine	46	↓1	50
14	Linda	46	new	8
15	Charlotte	41	↑16	55
16	Dorothy	41	↑26	12
17	Shirley	40	↓10	9
18	Amy	39	↑6	>100
19	Irene	39	↑15	73
20	Helen	37	↑3	18
21	Frances	36	↓4	28
22	Lillian	36	↓2	97
23	Lorraine	36	↓8	95
24	Margaret	36	↓10	11
25	Sandra	35	new	10
26	Evelyn	34	↓8	48
27	Mildred	33	↓11	58
28	Karen	32	new	34
29	Jeanette	30	new	90
30	Josephine	30	↑19	89
31	Gloria	29	new	30
32	Sylvia	29	↑12	62
33	Harriet	28	↓5	>100
34	Rose	28	↓4	44
35	Janice	27	↑11	22
36	Diane	26	new	45
37	Eleanor	26	↓2	68
38	Geraldine	26	↓11	46
39	Doris	25	↑2	31
40	Alice	24	↓14	32
41	Katherine	24	new	92
42	May	24	new	>100
43	Ruth	24	–	24
44	Thelma	24	↓8	>100
45	Dolores	23	new	67
46	Ellen	23	↓25	74
47	Ethel	23	new	>100
48	June	23	↓19	82
49	Grace	22	↓16	>100
50	Joan	22	new	14

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1939	US rank
1	Robert	169	–	2
2	James	140	–	1
3	Richard	140	–	5
4	George	124	↑1	11
5	John	118	↓1	3
6	Roy	112	–	42
7	Kenneth	109	↑1	15
8	William	88	↓1	4
9	Stanley	81	–	59
10	Edward	80	–	16
11	Ronald	74	↑2	10
12	Thomas	74	↓1	8
13	David	73	↓1	7
14	Joseph	71	↑1	12
15	Raymond	69	↑2	22
16	Albert	61	↑6	41
17	Charles	60	↓3	6
18	Lawrence	57	↑5	36
19	Paul	56	–	17
20	Henry	53	↓4	31
21	Melvin	51	↑10	53
22	Donald	44	↓4	9
23	Daniel	43	↑10	34
24	Francis	40	↑16	61
25	Norman	40	↑1	48
26	Walter	39	↓6	25
27	Harold	38	↓3	23
28	Michael	37	↑14	18
29	Harry	36	↑1	47
30	Edwin	34	↓1	96
31	Howard	34	↑7	45
32	Peter	34	new	43
33	Benjamin	32	↓8	>100
34	Herbert	31	↓13	75
35	Ernest	30	↓8	58
36	Frank	30	↓8	20
37	Gary	30	new	19
38	Alfred	28	↓4	69
39	Anthony	27	↑5	46
40	Gerald	27	↑6	21
41	Gordon	27	new	91
42	Ralph	25	↓3	37
43	Rodney	25	new	>100
44	Samuel	25	↓9	65
45	Patrick	24	↓8	74
46	Stephen	24	new	49
47	Allen	23	new	71
48	Arthur	23	↓3	33
49	Dennis	23	new	24
50	Theodore	23	↓14	90

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