Top 50 baby names of the 1940s1

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Girls
Boys
Name Number % of girls Rank Name Number % of boys
Mary 639,689 4.64% 1 James 794,663 5.50%
Linda 531,383 3.85% 2 Robert 757,022 5.24%
Barbara 425,042 3.08% 3 John 710,594 4.91%
Patricia 411,217 2.98% 4 William 555,601 3.84%
Carol 292,181 2.12% 5 Richard 476,825 3.30%
Sandra 265,397 1.92% 6 David 425,778 2.94%
Nancy 251,922 1.83% 7 Charles 361,248 2.50%
Sharon 221,129 1.60% 8 Thomas 350,307 2.42%
Judith 217,923 1.58% 9 Michael 336,180 2.33%
Susan 211,904 1.54% 10 Ronald 282,049 1.95%
Betty 194,548 1.41% 11 Larry 255,533 1.77%
Carolyn 181,769 1.32% 12 Donald 247,438 1.71%
Margaret 172,933 1.25% 13 Joseph 229,962 1.59%
Shirley 171,708 1.24% 14 Gary 217,452 1.50%
Judy 167,634 1.22% 15 George 208,724 1.44%
Karen 167,617 1.22% 16 Kenneth 198,287 1.37%
Donna 165,430 1.20% 17 Paul 183,094 1.27%
Kathleen 152,909 1.11% 18 Edward 174,545 1.21%
Joyce 151,418 1.10% 19 Jerry 166,978 1.15%
Dorothy 132,172 0.96% 20 Dennis 161,877 1.12%
Janet 130,705 0.95% 21 Frank 119,217 0.82%
Diane 122,841 0.89% 22 Daniel 112,606 0.78%
Janice 118,833 0.86% 23 Raymond 108,893 0.75%
Joan 117,644 0.85% 24 Roger 107,422 0.74%
Elizabeth 116,488 0.84% 25 Stephen 106,642 0.74%
Brenda 112,377 0.81% 26 Gerald 103,184 0.71%
Gloria 104,988 0.76% 27 Walter 83,628 0.58%
Virginia 98,942 0.72% 28 Harold 82,049 0.57%
Marilyn 98,924 0.72% 29 Lawrence 80,338 0.56%
Martha 95,337 0.69% 30 Wayne 74,996 0.52%
Beverly 95,076 0.69% 31 Arthur 73,888 0.51%
Helen 90,695 0.66% 32 Jack 73,827 0.51%
Bonnie 86,853 0.63% 33 Douglas 72,786 0.50%
Ruth 85,632 0.62% 34 Carl 72,618 0.50%
Frances 85,392 0.62% 35 Henry 72,371 0.50%
Jean 80,317 0.58% 36 Willie 72,249 0.50%
Ann 76,749 0.56% 37 Peter 69,264 0.48%
Phyllis 76,101 0.55% 38 Terry 65,411 0.45%
Jane 72,503 0.53% 39 Joe 65,399 0.45%
Peggy 72,091 0.52% 40 Anthony 64,741 0.45%
Cheryl 66,712 0.48% 41 Steven 64,216 0.44%
Alice 65,686 0.48% 42 Roy 58,938 0.41%
Pamela 63,506 0.46% 43 Ralph 57,962 0.40%
Catherine 52,586 0.38% 44 Jimmy 57,039 0.39%
Elaine 47,488 0.34% 45 Bruce 53,242 0.37%
Cynthia 42,528 0.31% 46 Billy 48,819 0.34%
Doris 41,280 0.30% 47 Albert 35,557 0.25%
Connie 37,437 0.27% 48 Fred 35,027 0.24%
Diana 36,415 0.26% 49 Eugene 34,198 0.24%
Christine 36,013 0.26% 50 Johnny 32,290 0.22%

 

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  1. Popular Baby Names [Internet]. Social Security Administration (US) [cited 2008 Dec 2]. Available from: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

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