Popular baby names in Hawaii, 1945

The most popular baby names in Hawaii in 1945 were Carol for girls (126 babies) and Robert for boys (196). Carol ranked #5 nationally for girls. Robert ranked #2 nationally for boys. Social Security records list 9,618 babies born in Hawaii in 1945 with a name given to at least five children of the same sex in the state.

Names that stood out in Hawaii in 1945

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: 21 babies, 60.7× the national rate
Aileen: 22 babies, 42× the national rate
Merle: 15 babies, 20.9× the national rate
Amy: 28 babies, 18.3× the national rate
Lynette: 17 babies, 12× the national rate
Faith: 16 babies, 10.8× the national rate
Doreen: 16 babies, 9.5× the national rate
Stephanie: 25 babies, 8.2× the national rate
Laverne: 16 babies, 7.7× the national rate
Naomi: 21 babies, 7.5× the national rate

Boys

Reginald: 20 babies, 9.1× the national rate
Alvin: 53 babies, 7.6× the national rate
Melvin: 88 babies, 6.9× the national rate
Glenn: 66 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Edwin: 47 babies, 6.4× the national rate
Rodney: 50 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Calvin: 41 babies, 6.1× the national rate
Gordon: 48 babies, 6× the national rate
Nelson: 15 babies, 5.7× the national rate
Wallace: 21 babies, 5.6× the national rate

Top 50 girls' and boys' names in Hawaii, 1945

Girls
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	Carol	126	↑1	5
2	Patricia	126	↓1	4
3	Sharon	114	↑5	8
4	Karen	109	↑2	16
5	Sandra	100	–	6
6	Mary	89	↑1	1
7	Barbara	87	↓4	3
8	Linda	76	↓4	2
9	Susan	68	↑9	10
10	Gail	67	↑25	52
11	Shirley	67	↓2	14
12	Kathleen	65	↑3	19
13	Lorraine	61	↓2	87
14	Frances	54	↑29	34
15	Geraldine	51	↓2	56
16	Joyce	51	↑3	18
17	Carolyn	50	↑8	12
18	Judith	50	↓8	9
19	Diane	49	↓2	22
20	Janice	46	↑3	24
21	Gloria	45	↑1	23
22	Charlotte	44	↑7	55
23	Elizabeth	43	↓9	26
24	Jean	42	↓12	38
25	Betty	41	↓9	11
26	Elaine	41	↓6	44
27	Marilyn	40	↑3	27
28	Cynthia	36	new	90
29	June	36	↑8	>100
30	Margaret	36	↑16	15
31	Irene	35	↑13	97
32	Jane	34	↓11	36
33	Ann	32	↑15	39
34	Charlene	32	new	>100
35	Helen	32	new	31
36	Janet	32	↑13	20
37	Evelyn	31	↓4	57
38	Gwendolyn	30	↓12	>100
39	Yvonne	30	↓11	>100
40	Sheila	29	new	89
41	Amy	28	↓9	>100
42	Beverly	28	↓18	37
43	Dorothy	28	new	21
44	Nancy	28	↑1	7
45	Diana	27	↓11	43
46	Judy	27	↓19	13
47	Paulette	27	new	>100
48	Pauline	26	↓1	>100
49	Victoria	26	new	>100
50	Joan	25	↓19	25

Boys
Rank	Name	Babies	vs 1944	US rank
1	Robert	196	–	2
2	James	158	↑1	1
3	John	152	↑3	3
4	Michael	141	↑6	9
5	Dennis	138	↓3	19
6	Ronald	135	↓2	10
7	Richard	134	↓2	5
8	William	115	↓1	4
9	Gary	108	↑2	13
10	George	103	↓1	15
11	David	99	↑2	6
12	Melvin	88	–	78
13	Thomas	86	↓5	8
14	Wayne	85	↑3	35
15	Edward	83	↑1	18
16	Joseph	79	↑2	14
17	Kenneth	79	↓2	16
18	Roy	74	↓4	40
19	Charles	70	–	7
20	Glenn	66	↑6	93
21	Paul	64	↑1	17
22	Patrick	59	↓2	63
23	Stanley	56	↓2	59
24	Raymond	54	↓1	23
25	Alvin	53	–	>100
26	Daniel	53	↓2	24
27	Lawrence	53	↑9	30
28	Alan	52	–	52
29	Walter	51	↑12	27
30	Rodney	50	↓3	>100
31	Gordon	48	↑17	>100
32	Edwin	47	↓1	>100
33	Stephen	47	↑6	26
34	Steven	47	–	43
35	Henry	44	↑8	37
36	Francis	42	↓7	76
37	Calvin	41	↓2	>100
38	Donald	40	↓5	12
39	Harry	37	↓1	47
40	Clifford	36	new	99
41	Norman	36	↑1	65
42	Samuel	36	new	62
43	Arthur	35	↑2	34
44	Eugene	35	↑3	50
45	Gerald	34	↓13	25
46	Peter	34	new	38
47	Ernest	33	new	60
48	Leslie	33	new	>100
49	Warren	32	new	>100
50	Albert	31	↓13	49

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