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.

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Rankings for

#10,620
Lashon
21 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,624
Roye
21 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,631
Pal
21 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,637
Fayne
21 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,639
Ferry
21 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,643
Latrell
21 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,644
Rowe
21 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,651
Karle
21 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,656
Ascension
21 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,671
Scotti
21 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,673
Kayle
21 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,703
Marque
21 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,709
Bennette
21 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,717
Garnie
21 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,727
Merrit
21 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,736
Rendall
21 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,769
Danon
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,771
Marchel
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,772
Montana
20 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,807
Jamy
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,848
Lyann
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,853
Asuncion
20 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,854
Feliz
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,858
Hildreth
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,864
Rendy
20 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,866
Carlas
20 in the 1950s 4 of 10 years
#10,890
Wing
19 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,892
Kelcey
19 in the 1950s 2 of 10 years
#10,894
Merel
19 in the 1950s 2 of 10 years
#10,904
Paz
19 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,925
Dalynn
19 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,932
Dannye
19 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,943
Nemiah
19 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,944
Cleofas
19 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,979
Shiron
19 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,987
Leonce
19 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#10,999
Lavonn
18 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#11,002
Remell
18 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#11,010
Marte
18 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#11,015
Lesslie
18 in the 1950s 2 of 10 years
#11,028
Emmerson
18 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#11,033
Yael
18 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#11,035
Othell
18 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#11,074
Addis
18 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#11,092
Dannel
18 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#11,105
Elvan
18 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#11,117
Madine
18 in the 1950s 3 of 10 years
#11,141
Rocklyn
18 in the 1950s 3 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.