1960s Baby Names

18,229 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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#433
Eva Eva is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "life" or "living."
13,631 in the 1960s
#434
Roxanne Roxanne means dawn or bright, and it is Persian rather than Greek — Alexander married Roxana in Bactria, and she and their son were murdered after his death.
13,583 in the 1960s
#435
Ted Ted is a boy's name that serves two unrelated names at once, and it exists because medieval English moved the n from "mine Edward."
13,565 in the 1960s
#436
Lloyd Lloyd is a boy's name from the Welsh word for gray, and the double L is a genuine Welsh consonant that English has no letter for.
13,494 in the 1960s
#437
Dianna Dianna means the shining one, and the root is the same one behind Zeus and Jupiter — an Indo-European word for the bright daytime sky that also gives us the ordinary word day.
13,387 in the 1960s
#438
Lois Lois is a girl's name that appears once in the New Testament, in a letter naming Timothy's grandmother, and its meaning has never been established.
13,345 in the 1960s
#439
Ricardo Ricardo is a boy's name meaning brave ruler, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Richard.
13,253 in the 1960s
#440
Danielle Danielle is a girl's name, the French feminine of Daniel, from a Hebrew name meaning God is my judge.
13,209 in the 1960s
#441
Kellie Kellie has no settled meaning — the Irish Ceallach has been read as bright-headed, as strife, and as one who frequents churches, and the three readings are not close to reconciling.
13,202 in the 1960s
#442
Ron
13,141 in the 1960s
#443
Dwight Dwight descends from Dionysus, the Greek god of wine — through the medieval woman's name Diot, a pet form of Dionysia, which is an unusually indirect route for a masculine surname.
13,097 in the 1960s
#444
Angie Angie means messenger, and the Greek root behind it named someone carrying news — the wings and choirs of later Christianity all grew from an ordinary occupational word.
13,052 in the 1960s
#445
Marlene Marlene was invented by the woman who made it famous — Marie Magdalene Dietrich contracted her own two names into one.
12,985 in the 1960s
#446
Sonia Sonia is not a name in its own right in Russian — it is the everyday pet form of Sofia, and it means wisdom.
12,982 in the 1960s
#447
Ramona Ramona means protecting counsel, and a novel made it — Helen Hunt Jackson wrote Ramona in 1884 to expose the treatment of Native Californians, and readers took the romance and ignored the argument.
12,980 in the 1960s
#448
Lauren Lauren is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "laurel," which became a women's name because a film studio invented one.
12,955 in the 1960s
#449
Jessie Jessie is a name that arrives from two unrelated directions — the Scottish pet form of Janet, and a feminine of the Hebrew Jesse.
12,898 in the 1960s
#450
Wade Wade means a river crossing, and there is a second Wade entirely — a Germanic sea giant from Old English legend whose story Chaucer refers to as though everyone knew it, and which is now lost.
12,897 in the 1960s
#451
Joey Joey is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "God will increase."
12,855 in the 1960s
#452
Lynette Lynette entered English through Tennyson, who reshaped a Welsh name for the Idylls of the King — Luned became Lynette, and the spelling he used is the one that survived.
12,775 in the 1960s
#453
Leah Leah is a girl's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is disputed, most often given as "weary" but also linked to a word for wild cow.
12,775 in the 1960s
#454
Travis Travis is a boy's name from an occupational surname meaning a toll collector, one who worked at a crossing.
12,763 in the 1960s
#455
Kristina Kristina means a follower of Christ, the Scandinavian and Slavic form of Christina.
12,732 in the 1960s
#456
Ruben Ruben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "behold, a son."
12,707 in the 1960s
#457
Kay Kay serves two unrelated sources — the initial of Katherine, and Sir Kay of Arthurian legend, who is Arthur's foster brother and one of the oldest figures in the whole cycle.
12,554 in the 1960s
#458
Sherrie
12,535 in the 1960s
#459
Sabrina Sabrina is the Latin name of the River Severn, and the legend behind it is a drowning — a princess thrown into the river became its spirit.
12,485 in the 1960s
#460
Kenny Kenny sits on top of two different Gaelic names that English collapsed into one — Cináed, born of fire, and Coinneach, handsome.
12,464 in the 1960s
#461
Emily Emily is a girl's name of Latin origin, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
12,337 in the 1960s
#462
Katrina Katrina has no securely known meaning, because Catherine does not — the Greek original has never been derived, and the pure reading was attached centuries later by a false association.
12,299 in the 1960s
#463
Andy Andy means manly, and the Greek root is the ordinary word for a man — so Andrew is one of the few apostles carrying a Greek name rather than a Hebrew or Aramaic one.
12,271 in the 1960s
#464
Alison Alison means little Alice, and Alice means noble — but the Norman name behind it is a heavy compression of the Germanic Adalheidis, so the noble is all that survived of a longer compound.
12,255 in the 1960s
#465
Byron Byron means at the cattle sheds — a working place name that became shorthand for romantic poetry, which is a longer journey than most names make.
12,184 in the 1960s
#466
Alex Alex is a name of Greek origin meaning "defender of mankind."
12,165 in the 1960s
#467
Timmy
12,041 in the 1960s
#468
Monique Monique is a girl's name, the French form of Monica, whose meaning is unknown despite the confident answers usually given for it.
11,997 in the 1960s
#469
Marianne Marianne is the personification of the French Republic, and her bust stands in every town hall in France — so the name carries a civic weight in one market that it has nowhere else.
11,973 in the 1960s
#470
Kelvin Kelvin is the only name on this site that is also an SI unit, and the order runs river to man to measurement — a Glasgow river gave a physicist his title, and the title was given to the scale of absolute temperature.
11,952 in the 1960s
#471
Cheri
11,942 in the 1960s
#472
Angel Angel is a name of Greek origin meaning "messenger," from angelos.
11,936 in the 1960s
#473
Ken
11,913 in the 1960s
#474
Doug
11,897 in the 1960s
#475
Johnnie Johnnie means God is gracious, a pet form of John.
11,813 in the 1960s
#476
Janine Janine means God is gracious, a French elaboration of Jeanne, and it charts in four markets on very small numbers — 2,683rd in Canada, 5,880th in the United States, 7,199th in France and 7,480th in England and Wales.
11,769 in the 1960s
#477
Lewis Lewis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," the English form of Louis.
11,768 in the 1960s
#478
Lydia Lydia is a girl's name meaning "woman from Lydia," an ancient kingdom in what is now western Turkey.
11,737 in the 1960s
#479
Ginger Ginger reached English from Sanskrit by way of four languages — shringavera, horn-root, named for the rhizome's antler shape, and every step of that journey is documented.
11,712 in the 1960s
#480
Jana Jana ranks 223rd in France and 1,245th in the United States, and its French peak of 485 births came in 2019 — a Slavic form of John that is currently doing better in France than in any English-speaking market.
11,621 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.