Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1943

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1943 were Patricia for girls (144 babies) and Robert for boys (207). Patricia ranked #3 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 9,203 babies born in Hawaii in 1943 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1943

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: 18 babies, 54.3× the national rate
Aileen: 34 babies, 53× the national rate
Amy: 40 babies, 28.2× the national rate
Lynette: 16 babies, 18.9× the national rate
Laverne: 15 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Naomi: 20 babies, 7.2× the national rate
Pearl: 18 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Harriet: 26 babies, 5.9× the national rate
Veronica: 22 babies, 5.8× the national rate
Caroline: 23 babies, 5.5× the national rate

Boys

Wilfred: 19 babies, 13.9× the national rate
Rodney: 65 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Benjamin: 42 babies, 7.1× the national rate
Melvin: 96 babies, 6.8× the national rate
Wallace: 29 babies, 6.7× the national rate
Alexander: 20 babies, 6.3× the national rate
Calvin: 37 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Edwin: 46 babies, 5.6× the national rate
Alvin: 41 babies, 5.4× the national rate
Stanley: 76 babies, 4.7× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1943

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Patricia	144	–	3
2	Carol	131	↑1	5
3	Barbara	95	↓1	2
4	Linda	91	↑2	4
5	Sandra	80	↑4	6
6	Mary	73	↓2	1
7	Karen	69	–	15
8	Carolyn	62	↑4	11
9	Shirley	61	↑5	12
10	Jean	60	↓5	36
11	Judith	60	↑2	7
12	Joyce	58	↓1	16
13	Sharon	54	↑37	8
14	Geraldine	53	↑10	51
15	Judy	52	↑21	13
16	Jane	50	↓8	44
17	Lorraine	46	↑2	94
18	Elaine	45	↑3	46
19	Irene	45	↑14	85
20	Gloria	44	↑17	30
21	Frances	43	↓6	31
22	Kathleen	43	new	22
23	Janet	42	↓5	20
24	Amy	40	↓7	>100
25	Elizabeth	40	↓2	23
26	Susan	40	↓6	18
27	Betty	39	↓17	10
28	Diane	39	↑14	24
29	Dorothy	38	↑18	19
30	Carole	37	new	42
31	Janice	37	↑8	26
32	Lillian	37	new	>100
33	Helen	36	↑5	28
34	Florence	35	new	>100
35	Margaret	35	↓7	14
36	Aileen	34	new	>100
37	Charlotte	32	↓11	47
38	June	32	↓11	>100
39	Nancy	32	↓5	9
40	Yvonne	31	↓24	>100
41	Ann	30	new	37
42	Gail	30	↑6	55
43	Evelyn	27	↓21	53
44	Virginia	27	↓13	25
45	Alice	26	new	38
46	Harriet	26	new	>100
47	Loretta	26	new	89
48	Marilyn	26	new	27
49	Ruth	26	↓3	33
50	Gwendolyn	25	new	>100

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1942	US rank
1	Robert	207	–	2
2	Ronald	166	↑2	9
3	James	159	–	1
4	Richard	148	↓2	5
5	John	135	↑2	3
6	George	119	–	14
7	Dennis	118	↑20	20
8	William	116	↓3	4
9	Michael	115	↑6	10
10	Roy	104	↑2	38
11	Melvin	96	↑5	63
12	Kenneth	94	↓4	15
13	Thomas	85	↓3	8
14	Joseph	83	↓1	13
15	Charles	78	↑2	7
16	David	77	↓7	6
17	Stanley	76	↓3	54
18	Edward	75	↑1	18
19	Wayne	73	↑11	41
20	Gary	69	↑5	16
21	Raymond	66	↓1	22
22	Rodney	65	↑12	>100
23	Daniel	63	–	25
24	Lawrence	62	↑8	32
25	Paul	55	↓7	19
26	Henry	53	↓4	31
27	Francis	52	↓3	64
28	Donald	51	–	11
29	Howard	48	↑2	48
30	Edwin	46	new	>100
31	Peter	46	↑18	39
32	Walter	44	↓6	26
33	Albert	43	↓12	43
34	Norman	43	↑1	56
35	Patrick	43	↑1	69
36	Benjamin	42	↑9	>100
37	Alvin	41	↑1	>100
38	Clifford	41	new	94
39	Stephen	41	new	29
40	Gerald	40	new	23
41	Harold	40	↓8	27
42	Glenn	38	↓3	85
43	Calvin	37	new	>100
44	Douglas	37	↓33	28
45	Ernest	36	↓8	61
46	Herbert	35	↓4	86
47	Jerry	32	–	17
48	Alfred	30	↓4	78
49	Arthur	30	↓20	30
50	Frank	30	new	21

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