1940s Baby Names

4,671 names were given to children in the United States between 1940 and 1949, ranked below by how many.

A name's place is its total across those ten years. Names that appear in only some of the decade say so, because a name recorded once is a different fact from one recorded every year.

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Rankings for

#9,793
Burlon
17 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,794
Scipio
17 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,795
Miner
17 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,799
Emidio
17 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,800
Jerell
17 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,822
Danilo
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,825
Ormand
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,830
Zed
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,831
Ulys
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,836
Carr
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,837
Martel
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,838
Glenden
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,840
Brannon
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,841
Jospeh
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,842
Talton
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,845
Ance
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,846
Canuto
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,849
Leemon
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,852
Dub
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,857
Ausencio
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,870
Bookert
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,872
Locke
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,873
Remijio
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,877
Less
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,881
Danuel
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,886
Jerroll
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,892
Jb
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,894
Jeb
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,895
Dany
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,900
Wallice
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,903
Cassell
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,906
Goerge
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,908
Court
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,910
Claron
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,916
Garcia
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,918
Culver
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,922
Latrell
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,923
Crockett
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,926
Forster
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,928
Friddie
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,930
Trygve
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,934
Jary
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,937
Lancelot
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,943
Thomson
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,945
Arney
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,947
Antonino
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,952
Theodus
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,956
Theoplis
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years

What Made a 1940s Name

Children in the United States were registered with it between 1940 and 1949. A name's position here is how many of them were.

Why Some Names Only Cover Part of the Decade

A name that appears in three of the ten years either arrived partway through or faded out — and either is more interesting than the total on its own. The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.

Where to Go Next

Open any name to see its full curve — most of these have a hundred and forty years of it. Or compare the ends of the same measurement: the most popular names now and the rarest.