1950s Baby Names

1,559 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

#10,169
Austine
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,178
Claudy
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,181
Ovie
25 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,193
Luby
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,219
Rion
25 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,227
Sung
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,231
Tal
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,243
Taren
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,248
Chancey
24 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,252
Edell
24 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,290
Trine
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,294
Olie
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,318
Hollice
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,320
Tee
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,325
Yoland
24 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,337
Joa
24 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,352
Harlyn
24 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,356
Cordy
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,360
Di
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,373
Jeany
23 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,396
Moe
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,402
Ilia
23 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,409
Asta
23 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,418
Shae
23 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,423
Gradie
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,426
Indy
23 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,436
Ondra
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,441
Dare
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,444
Neddie
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,455
Starlin
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,472
Romney
23 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,473
Chaney
23 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,503
Mady
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,507
Angle
22 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,530
Micha
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,534
Raney
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,543
Carmi
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,550
Ala
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,553
Bren
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,555
Enis
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,561
Tay
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,579
Ardel
22 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,582
Karmel
22 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,594
Noris
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,602
Ari Ari is a unisex name with several unrelated origins.
22 in the 1950s 2 of 10 years
#10,608
Darrie
22 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,613
Zell
22 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,614
Davine
22 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years

What made a 1950s name

Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 1950 and 1959, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "1950s names" you will find elsewhere is somebody's sense of the period; this one is the register.

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.