Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1941

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1941 were Patricia for girls (138 babies) and Robert for boys (189). Patricia ranked #3 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 7,522 babies born in Hawaii in 1941 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1941

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

Girls

Leilani: 17 babies, 64.9× the national rate
Winona: 21 babies, 51.9× the national rate
Amy: 39 babies, 30.9× the national rate
Caroline: 28 babies, 8× the national rate
Violet: 17 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Harriet: 24 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Gwendolyn: 21 babies, 5.6× the national rate
June: 38 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Lorraine: 37 babies, 4.6× the national rate
Florence: 33 babies, 4.6× the national rate

Boys

Stanley: 92 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Manuel: 26 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Wallace: 26 babies, 7.3× the national rate
Alexander: 17 babies, 6.5× the national rate
Benjamin: 32 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Rodney: 27 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Herbert: 49 babies, 5.2× the national rate
Roy: 96 babies, 5× the national rate
Melvin: 62 babies, 4.9× the national rate
Alvin: 31 babies, 4.8× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1941

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Patricia	138	↑1	3
2	Barbara	105	↓1	2
3	Jean	79	↑2	32
4	Carol	69	–	4
5	Linda	69	↑9	5
6	Jane	64	↓3	46
7	Judith	62	↑3	6
8	Janet	58	–	18
9	Mary	52	↓3	1
10	Elaine	51	↑3	44
11	Frances	47	↑10	31
12	Betty	46	↓3	7
13	Joyce	45	↓1	13
14	Elizabeth	44	↓7	21
15	Helen	44	↑5	24
16	Karen	43	↑12	19
17	Sandra	41	↑8	9
18	Shirley	41	↓1	10
19	Nancy	40	↓8	8
20	Amy	39	↓2	>100
21	Geraldine	38	↑17	45
22	June	38	↑26	90
23	Dorothy	37	↓7	14
24	Lorraine	37	↓1	93
25	Carolyn	36	new	11
26	Irene	35	↓7	74
27	Florence	33	new	>100
28	Judy	32	new	16
29	Ann	31	new	37
30	Margaret	29	↓6	12
31	Caroline	28	new	>100
32	Evelyn	28	↓6	50
33	Joan	28	↑17	17
34	Yvonne	28	new	>100
35	Charlotte	27	↓20	55
36	Ellen	27	↑10	67
37	Mildred	27	↓10	64
38	Gloria	26	↓7	26
39	Ruth	26	↑4	28
40	Josephine	25	↓10	92
41	Priscilla	25	new	>100
42	Eleanor	24	↓5	78
43	Harriet	24	↓10	>100
44	Janice	24	↓9	22
45	Katherine	24	↓4	85
46	Lillian	24	↓24	>100
47	Doris	23	↓8	38
48	Gail	23	new	68
49	Loretta	23	new	81
50	Susan	22	new	27

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1940	US rank
1	Robert	189	–	2
2	Richard	165	↑1	5
3	James	139	↓1	1
4	John	131	↑1	3
5	William	120	↑3	4
6	George	112	↓2	13
7	Ronald	100	↑4	9
8	Kenneth	97	↓1	15
9	Roy	96	↓3	39
10	Stanley	92	↓1	57
11	David	84	↑2	7
12	Thomas	81	–	8
13	Joseph	78	↑1	12
14	Charles	69	↑3	6
15	Edward	65	↓5	17
16	Raymond	65	↓1	22
17	Melvin	62	↑4	56
18	Michael	52	↑10	16
19	Paul	52	–	18
20	Herbert	49	↑14	76
21	Norman	49	↑4	49
22	Henry	47	↓2	28
23	Harold	46	↑4	24
24	Lawrence	45	↓6	34
25	Clarence	43	new	62
26	Walter	40	–	26
27	Wayne	39	new	37
28	Donald	38	↓6	10
29	Jerry	38	new	14
30	Albert	37	↓14	40
31	Dennis	37	↑18	23
32	Ralph	36	↑10	38
33	Gary	34	↑4	19
34	Daniel	33	↓11	31
35	Benjamin	32	↓2	>100
36	Patrick	32	↑9	70
37	Alvin	31	new	>100
38	Clifford	31	new	94
39	Howard	31	↓8	47
40	Edwin	28	↓10	97
41	Ernest	28	↓6	61
42	Francis	28	↓18	60
43	Samuel	28	↑1	65
44	Douglas	27	new	53
45	Gerald	27	↓5	20
46	Rodney	27	↓3	>100
47	Arthur	26	↑1	33
48	Frank	26	↓12	21
49	Leonard	26	new	54
50	Manuel	26	new	>100

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