1960s Baby Names

5,757 names were given to children in the United States between 1960 and 1969, 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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#943
Bryon
3,415 in the 1960s
#949
Robby
3,381 in the 1960s
#950
Lowell Lowell means little wolf, and it is Norman French rather than English — louvel is a diminutive of loup, so the name is affectionate about an animal most cultures feared.
3,374 in the 1960s
#951
Sergio Sergio means servant, from a Roman family name that is probably Etruscan — and Virgil gave the Sergii a Trojan ancestor, which is the Aeneid doing genealogical work for Rome's aristocracy.
3,365 in the 1960s
#953
Oliver Oliver is a boy's name that entered England with the Normans and has a disputed origin.
3,359 in the 1960s
#957
Lamont
3,351 in the 1960s
#961
Dirk
3,310 in the 1960s
#963
Erick Erick means ever-ruler, and the K-spelling is the Scandinavian one — Erik the Red named Greenland deliberately to attract settlers, which may be the earliest recorded use of a misleading brand name.
3,305 in the 1960s
#967
Tyler Tyler is a boy's name from a medieval trade — a man who laid roof tiles — and the leader of the Peasants' Revolt carried it as a job description.
3,275 in the 1960s
#970
Salvador Salvador means savior, and it names a country and an ocean crossing — El Salvador is the only nation named directly for Christ, and San Salvador was the first island Columbus reached.
3,221 in the 1960s
#974
Wilbert Wilbert means bright will, and it is one of a small set of names joining desire to brightness — the same beorht that ends Albert, Robert and Gilbert, on a first element meaning wanting something.
3,191 in the 1960s
#975
Horace Horace has no reliable meaning — the Roman family name Horatius resists derivation, and France ranks it 2,765th against the United States at 6,218th, so the poet's name is now used more readily in French than in English.
3,154 in the 1960s
#977
Boyd
3,132 in the 1960s
#978
Ernie
3,130 in the 1960s
#980
Alejandro Alejandro is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "defender of mankind."
3,109 in the 1960s
#981
Dominick Dominick means of the Lord, and it was given to children born on a Sunday — dies dominica is the Lord's day, and the name records the day of birth rather than a hope for the child.
3,109 in the 1960s
#984
Rodolfo
3,100 in the 1960s
#985
Garrett Garrett means spear-strength or spear-rule, and it descends from two different Germanic names that medieval English speakers could no longer tell apart.
3,095 in the 1960s
#986
Hubert Hubert means bright mind, and its saint is the patron of hunters — Saint Hubertus, whose stag with a crucifix between its antlers is the emblem on every bottle of Jägermeister.
3,091 in the 1960s
#989
Willis Willis means son of Will, and the Will behind it is William — a name so common in medieval England that its diminutives generated a whole family of surnames, of which this is one.
3,080 in the 1960s
#1,002
Grady Grady means noble, and it comes from a byname rather than a rank — the Irish grádha describes someone held in esteem, which is a reputation earned rather than a title inherited.
2,941 in the 1960s
#1,004
Gerardo Gerardo means brave with a spear, and both halves are weapons talk — the Germanic joins the word for a spear to one meaning hardy, which is the same ger that hides inside garlic.
2,928 in the 1960s
#1,005
Bert
2,925 in the 1960s
#1,006
Owen Owen is a boy's name of Welsh origin, the anglicized form of Owain.
2,922 in the 1960s
#1,007
Demetrius
2,915 in the 1960s
#1,012
Gilberto
2,896 in the 1960s
#1,013
Devin Devin is a name from an Irish surname, and its meanings are contested — poet, and a word for a stag, are both proposed from different Irish originals.
2,881 in the 1960s
#1,018
Terrell
2,861 in the 1960s
#1,019
Marlon
2,848 in the 1960s
#1,021
Miles Miles is a boy's name of disputed origin, usually connected to the Latin miles, meaning soldier.
2,834 in the 1960s
#1,022
Cornelius
2,832 in the 1960s
#1,024
Denis Denis is a boy's name from the Greek god of wine, and Ireland places it 240th — its strongest market by a wide margin.
2,829 in the 1960s
#1,030
Dino
2,794 in the 1960s
#1,031
Freddy Freddy is far stronger in England than in America — 328th in England and Wales on 135 births against 1,422nd in the United States on 127, despite the two countries being nowhere near comparable in size.
2,790 in the 1960s
#1,033
Ervin
2,765 in the 1960s
#1,038
Buddy
2,744 in the 1960s
#1,043
Mack Mack means son of, and on its own it is only half a name — the Gaelic mac is a prefix, so using it alone is like naming a child Junior with nothing in front of it.
2,725 in the 1960s
#1,046
Abraham Abraham is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "father of many."
2,711 in the 1960s
#1,047
Kip
2,707 in the 1960s
#1,051
Dane
2,693 in the 1960s
#1,052
Pablo Pablo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "small" or "humble," the Spanish form of Paul.
2,690 in the 1960s
#1,055
Israel Israel means he wrestles with God, and it is a name given after a fight — Jacob receives it in Genesis having wrestled a stranger until dawn and refused to let go without a blessing.
2,680 in the 1960s
#1,057
Royce Royce is a boy's name from an English surname meaning "son of Roy" or "son of Rose."
2,668 in the 1960s
#1,058
Abel Abel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "breath" or "vapour."
2,665 in the 1960s
#1,059
Lane Lane means a narrow way between hedges, and it is one of only two names in this sweep birth records mark as rising — it peaked in 2019 and stands at 250th in the United States on 1,495 births.
2,663 in the 1960s
#1,063
Ronny
2,660 in the 1960s
#1,064
Wilson Wilson rose and fell with a presidency, and birth records show it plainly — 129 American births in 1911, then 496 in 1912, climbing to 1,381 by 1918 and back to 590 by 1920.
2,660 in the 1960s
#1,066
Rolando
2,658 in the 1960s

What Made a 1960s Name

Children in the United States were registered with it between 1960 and 1969. 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.