1950s Baby Names
5,178 names were given to children in the United States between 1950 and 1959, 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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#1,699Fletcher Fletcher is a boy's name from an English occupational surname for a maker of arrows.965 in the 1950s
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#1,710Xavier Xavier is a boy's name from a Basque place name meaning "the new house," from etxe berri.956 in the 1950s
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#1,827Augustus Augustus is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "venerable" or "consecrated".855 in the 1950s
What Made a 1950s Name
Children in the United States were registered with it between 1950 and 1959. 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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.