1940s Baby Names

13,557 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

#9,889
Azucena
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,890
Cherylle
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,891
Ethell
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,892
Jb
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,893
Charron
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
#9,896
Duana
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,897
Maretha
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,898
Sybile
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,899
Orvetta
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,900
Wallice
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,901
Davette
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,902
Hattye
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,903
Cassell
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,904
Erdine
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,905
Ileane
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,906
Goerge
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,907
Monia
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,908
Court
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,909
Cartha
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,910
Claron
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,911
Sanora
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,912
Karle
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,913
Nealy
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,914
Joycelynn
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,915
Dottye
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,916
Garcia
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,917
Deona
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,918
Culver
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,919
Kerin
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,920
Ansley
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,921
Sharlyne
16 in the 1940s 2 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
#9,924
Ligia
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,925
Wana
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,926
Forster
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,927
Loanna
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,928
Friddie
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,929
Sherrion
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,930
Trygve
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,931
Leela
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,932
Pasty
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,933
Ludene
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,934
Jary
16 in the 1940s 3 of 10 years
#9,935
Ethelmae
16 in the 1940s 2 of 10 years
#9,936
Keary
16 in the 1940s 1 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.