1950s Baby Names

9,057 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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Rankings for

#10,757
Lashell
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,759
Anniece
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,760
Delle
20 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,761
Valeen
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,762
Celisa
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,764
Sidra
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,766
Jeneva
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,768
Dovey
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,769
Sherilee
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,770
Alveda
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,771
Reneta
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,772
Jarita
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,779
Gwendy
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,780
Quinette
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,781
Inette
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,782
Shermane
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,784
Marchele
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,785
Adrina
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,786
Darah
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,787
Cordellia
20 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,789
Salvatrice
20 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,790
Pasqualina
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,792
Mirtha
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,793
Margreat
20 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,794
Moni
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,795
Eather
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,796
Willeen
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,797
Cleotilde
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,798
Venisa
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,799
Lizzy
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,800
Elizabethann
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,802
Shayna
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,804
Cynethia
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,806
Vedia
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,807
Kimmerly
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,810
Cnythia
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,814
Glorya
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,817
Pattijo
20 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,818
Conita
20 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,821
Tamye
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,822
Palestine
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,823
Jodel
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,825
Wileen
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,827
Lova
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,828
Roselia
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,829
Vola
20 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,830
Zanetta
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,832
Anetha
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years

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.