1950s Baby Names

1,436 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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#10,071
Worthy
26 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,102
Doye
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,108
Luby
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,112
Samie
25 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,117
Elizah
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,133
Conna
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,140
Rion
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,141
Hartford
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,153
Kia
25 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,157
Ferron
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,168
Claudy
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,173
Staley
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,188
Barbe
25 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,195
Junnie
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,210
Reeves Reeves is a boy's name from an English surname meaning "bailiff" or "steward."
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,222
Austine
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,228
Yoland
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,233
Taren
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,235
Olie
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,239
Trine
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,284
Hollice
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,289
Sung
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,303
Edell
24 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,305
Chancey
24 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,311
Tal
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,313
Joa
24 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,351
Tee
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,360
Romney
23 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,384
Pearce
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,398
Di
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,404
Shae
23 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,421
Ondra
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,445
Dare
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,447
Indy
23 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,451
Jeany
23 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,470
Asta
23 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,476
Neddie
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,484
Ilia
23 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,487
Starlin
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,489
Gradie
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,494
Cordy
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,507
Corrin
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,526
Angle
22 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,533
Noris
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,534
Micha
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,551
Darrie
22 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,554
Enis
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,566
Karmel
22 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.