What is the most popular baby name in Hawaii?

Even on a thin SSA book, Hawaii's cumulative #1 boy is Michael (14,033 births) and #1 girl is Mary (5,796 births) since 1910.

How have baby names changed in Hawaii over the decades?

Hawaii is TREND-LED today: latest-year leaders already differ from the all-time book on both sexes. Decade #1s moved from John/Mary (1910s) to Noah/Olivia (2020s).

How many babies are named in Hawaii?

Our data covers 382,102 name registrations in Hawaii for the top 50 boys and top 50 girls names (QUIET volume stamp · #46 of 51 jurisdictions). The SSA records all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year, from 1910 through 2025.

State name profile

Most Popular Baby Names in Hawaii

The boys' and girls' names most often given in Hawaii, ranked by total recorded births in Social Security Administration state data, 1910–2025.

Compiled byNameAlmanac, Independent data publisher

Michael
#1 boy name: Mary
#1 girl name: 382,102
Births recorded: 1910–2025
Years covered

Hawaii's all-time #1 names are Michael for boys and Mary for girls, based on 382,102 SSA birth registrations since 1910.

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Hawaii has recorded 382,102 births across its top 50 boy and top 50 girl names since 1910. Michael leads all boys with 14,033 births, while Mary tops the girls with 5,796. This profile covers decade-by-decade leaders and the full top-50 rankings for both sexes.

Michael #1 boy name
Mary #1 girl name
382,102 births recorded

Where Hawaii sits by recorded name volume

Hawaii: 1,028,181 SSA name registrations (QUIET · rank 46/51). Inventory signal only, orthogonal to the top-50 lists below.

Hawaii vs all states by SSA name registrations

Where this state's disclosed SSA name-state registration total sits among every tracked jurisdiction

1,028,181 46th of 51 higher than 5 of 51 states

Jurisdictions, banded by SSA name-registration count

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source Social Security Administration state baby-name files · 2026-08-11

Hawaii naming snapshot

According to SSA state files through 2025, Mary is #1 of 5,796 cumulative SSA births in Hawaii ≠ Isla #1 of 212 2025 girl names at all-time rank #51; Michael is #1 of 14,033 cumulative SSA births in Hawaii ≠ Elijah #1 of 253 2025 boy names at all-time rank #51.

Isla
2025 girls #1, all-time #51: Mary
all-time girls #1, 2025 #51: Elijah
2025 boys #1, all-time #51: Michael
all-time boys #1, 2025 #35

Both sexes in Hawaii already split latest-year vs all-time leaders, cumulative totals since 1910 and 2025 use different denominators.

Data updated Aug 2026

Both sexes trend-led

What a thin registry book shows for Hawaii

Hawaii sits in the lightest third of SSA name-state registration totals (1,028,181 · QUIET · #46/51). Cumulative top-50 leaders are Michael (14,033 boy births) and Mary (5,796 girl births) across 382,102 top-50 registrations since 1910. Both sexes are TREND-LED: the latest 2025 #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 on each side. Boy top-50 share 253,903 vs 128,199 for girls.

In Hawaii, the latest SSA year #1 differs from the all-time cumulative #1 for both boys and girls, a dual trend split against the long book.

Coverage notes on a thin state file

Decade-by-decade data for Hawaii extends back to 1910. In the 1910s, the #1 boy name was John and the #1 girl name was Mary. By the 2020s, the top names had shifted to Noah for boys and Olivia for girls.

SSA state files include any name appearing five or more times in a given state-year; lower-frequency names are suppressed for privacy. Figures are comparable across all 50 states and DC. Alternate spellings (Sophia vs Sofia) are separate names; middle names are not tracked. This page is for informational and research purposes.

Isla

40
Emma

37
Luna

36
Sophia

36
Olivia

34
Amelia

31
Kaia

29
Ava

29
Chloe

29
Aria

28

What this shows Isla leads 2025 girls in Hawaii; Mary remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Elijah

49
Noah

46
Liam

42
Luca

42
Luke

41
Ezekiel

40
Levi

40
Theodore

38
Henry

34
John

33

What this shows Elijah leads 2025 boys in Hawaii; Michael remains the all-time cumulative #1 at rank #51 in 2025.

Mary

5,796
Jennifer

5,110
Elizabeth

4,584
Patricia

3,954
Michelle

3,633
Karen

3,471
Lisa

3,361
Susan

3,344
Jessica

3,248
Linda

3,113

What this shows Mary leads Hawaii girls with 5,796 recorded births.

Michael

14,033
John

12,397
Robert

12,329
James

12,176
David

11,173
William

10,021
Richard

8,795
Joseph

7,931
Christopher

6,822
Daniel

6,585

What this shows Michael leads Hawaii boys with 14,033 recorded births.

Decade-by-Decade Leaders

The #1 boy and girl name in Hawaii for each decade

How we calculated this

For each decade, we sum every year's SSA state-level birth count per name, then take the single name with the highest ten-year total for each sex. A name can lead a decade with a strong single peak year or with steady, moderate demand across all ten years, the total treats both the same way.

Decade	Top Boy	Births	Top Girl	Births
1910s	John	685	Mary	773
1920s	George	1,326	Mary	1,073
1930s	George	1,470	Mary	863
1940s	Robert	1,975	Patricia	1,373
1950s	Michael	2,783	Susan	1,331
1960s	Michael	2,624	Lisa	1,646
1970s	Michael	2,287	Jennifer	1,987
1980s	Michael	2,252	Jennifer	1,679
1990s	Joshua	1,642	Ashley	1,049
2000s	Joshua	973	Kayla	489
2010s	Noah	793	Emma	588
2020s	Noah	330	Olivia	266

Boy Top 50 Boy Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Michael	14,033
2	John	12,397
3	Robert	12,329
4	James	12,176
5	David	11,173
6	William	10,021
7	Richard	8,795
8	Joseph	7,931
9	Christopher	6,822
10	Daniel	6,585
11	George	6,486
12	Thomas	6,199
13	Charles	5,614
14	Joshua	5,318
15	Matthew	5,194
16	Jason	4,980
17	Paul	4,841
18	Ryan	4,805
19	Edward	4,791
20	Mark	4,618
21	Kenneth	4,262
22	Anthony	4,195
23	Kevin	4,095
24	Brian	4,023
25	Andrew	3,899
26	Ronald	3,806
27	Justin	3,694
28	Steven	3,662
29	Brandon	3,629
30	Henry	3,614
31	Jonathan	3,613
32	Eric	3,485
33	Patrick	3,415
34	Raymond	3,247
35	Jacob	3,176
36	Benjamin	3,171
37	Aaron	3,117
38	Alexander	3,097
39	Gary	3,071
40	Samuel	3,042
41	Scott	2,999
42	Jeffrey	2,986
43	Noah	2,747
44	Wayne	2,719
45	Dennis	2,701
46	Nicholas	2,698
47	Peter	2,686
48	Albert	2,654
49	Stephen	2,653
50	Sean	2,639

Girl Top 50 Girl Names

#	Name	Total Births
1	Mary	5,796
2	Jennifer	5,110
3	Elizabeth	4,584
4	Patricia	3,954
5	Michelle	3,633
6	Karen	3,471
7	Lisa	3,361
8	Susan	3,344
9	Jessica	3,248
10	Linda	3,113
11	Barbara	3,051
12	Margaret	2,902
13	Nicole	2,871
14	Sandra	2,856
15	Sarah	2,830
16	Ashley	2,728
17	Helen	2,713
18	Kimberly	2,663
19	Sharon	2,551
20	Carol	2,482
21	Christine	2,339
22	Stephanie	2,328
23	Dorothy	2,313
24	Katherine	2,296
25	Kathleen	2,295
26	Cynthia	2,289
27	Amy	2,240
28	Alice	2,200
29	Donna	2,196
30	Betty	2,182
31	Nancy	2,182
32	Emily	2,120
33	Grace	2,111
34	Laura	2,066
35	Melissa	2,063
36	Cheryl	2,031
37	Rachel	2,026
38	Jane	2,022
39	Leilani	1,976
40	Rose	1,890
41	Malia	1,883
42	Jean	1,874
43	Shirley	1,801
44	Christina	1,763
45	Frances	1,759
46	Janet	1,757
47	Emma	1,741
48	Victoria	1,735
49	Evelyn	1,732
50	Lillian	1,728

Read with Hawaii

Nearest ABS peers for a thin-registry state (Hawaii · QUIET · TREND-LED).

QUIET TREND-LED

Montana · QUIET

1,019,300 SSA registrations (near-scale with Hawaii; ABS Δ 8,881). Leader lane may differ from Hawaii's TREND-LED.

New Hampshire · QUIET

1,052,148 SSA registrations (near-scale with Hawaii; ABS Δ 23,967). Leader lane may differ from Hawaii's TREND-LED.

Nevada · QUIET

1,113,187 SSA registrations (near-scale with Hawaii; ABS Δ 85,006). Leader lane may differ from Hawaii's TREND-LED.

South Dakota · QUIET

1,130,783 SSA registrations (near-scale with Hawaii; ABS Δ 102,602). Leader lane may differ from Hawaii's TREND-LED.

New Mexico (volume-lane contrast)

Near Hawaii on SSA registration volume yet stamps SPARSE vs QUIET.

Why names rise and fall

Hawaii stamps QUIET · TREND-LED - read the matching SSA methodology before quoting state leaders.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files, 1910–2025 (ssa.gov).

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

Read our methodology - thin-registry states: how small SSA state files are compared without inventing suppressed names.

According to the Social Security Administration, as of June 2026 this profile draws directly on the agency's state-level public-use files, which document 6,696,687 state-level records across all 51 reporting jurisdictions spanning 1910-2025.