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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Rankings for

#1,057
Royce
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 our data marks as rising — it peaked in 2019 and stands at 250th in the United States on 1,495 births.
2,663 in the 1960s
#1,060
Eunice Eunice means good victory, and she is named in the New Testament as Timothy's mother — one of very few women whose faith Paul credits by name, alongside her own mother Lois.
2,662 in the 1960s
#1,061
Pearl Pearl is a girl's name taken from the gem, and it charts in all seven markets we track.
2,662 in the 1960s
#1,062
Rosanne
2,661 in the 1960s
#1,063
Wilson Wilson rose and fell with a presidency, and our data shows 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
#1,064
Ronny
2,660 in the 1960s
#1,065
Rolando
2,658 in the 1960s
#1,066
Ellis Ellis is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my God."
2,658 in the 1960s
#1,067
Letitia
2,645 in the 1960s
#1,068
Rufus Rufus means red-haired, and it named a king by his complexion — William II of England was called Rufus for his ruddy face, and he died with an arrow in him in the New Forest.
2,635 in the 1960s
#1,069
Jacquline
2,632 in the 1960s
#1,070
Mattie Mattie serves two entirely unrelated names — Martha, which is Aramaic for a lady, and Matilda, which is Germanic for might in battle.
2,631 in the 1960s
#1,071
Myrna
2,630 in the 1960s
#1,072
Dewey
2,627 in the 1960s
#1,073
Vaughn
2,623 in the 1960s
#1,074
Donnell
2,621 in the 1960s
#1,075
Alexis Alexis is a Greek name meaning helper or defender, and it is genuinely split by country: a boys' name in France, where it ranks 256th, and majority female in the United States.
2,619 in the 1960s
#1,076
Kathie
2,618 in the 1960s
#1,077
Sharron
2,609 in the 1960s
#1,078
Eve Eve is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "living one," the name given to the first woman in Genesis.
2,609 in the 1960s
#1,079
Leisa
2,604 in the 1960s
#1,080
Diann
2,603 in the 1960s
#1,081
Andres Andres is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave."
2,599 in the 1960s
#1,082
Bessie Bessie is a girl's name meaning God is my oath, a pet form of Elizabeth.
2,592 in the 1960s
#1,083
Hilary
2,577 in the 1960s
#1,084
Dionne
2,576 in the 1960s
#1,085
Louie Louie is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior."
2,576 in the 1960s
#1,086
Reynaldo
2,574 in the 1960s
#1,087
Wilbur Wilbur ranks 579th in England and Wales against 3956th in the United States, so a name most people think of as thoroughly American is now used more than six times more readily in England.
2,572 in the 1960s
#1,088
Serena Serena has the most evenly spread ranking on this site — Scotland 298th, Ireland 310th, the United States 325th, France 330th and England and Wales 381st, five markets inside 83 places of each other.
2,568 in the 1960s
#1,089
Simone Simone is a girl's name meaning he has heard, the French feminine of Simon.
2,566 in the 1960s
#1,090
Sammie
2,564 in the 1960s
#1,091
Elsie Elsie is a girl's name that began as a Scottish short form of Elspeth, itself a Scottish form of Elizabeth.
2,564 in the 1960s
#1,092
Lucia Lucia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the feminine of Lucius from lux.
2,552 in the 1960s
#1,093
Genevieve Genevieve is a girl's name of Gaulish origin whose meaning is not settled.
2,546 in the 1960s
#1,094
Claudette Claudette means little lame one, and it is an uncomplimentary name that a Roman dynasty made prestigious — the Claudii held the emperorship, and the byname's original sense stopped mattering.
2,545 in the 1960s
#1,095
Sterling Sterling is a unit of money that became a name, and the coin was probably named for a bird — the little star on early Norman pennies gives one account, and a starling stamped on them gives the other.
2,544 in the 1960s
#1,096
Janell
2,537 in the 1960s
#1,097
Selena Selena means the moon, and its curve has a shape we see nowhere else — American births went 918 in 1994 to 3,840 in 1995, the year Selena Quintanilla was killed on 31 March, then fell back to 2,296 the next year.
2,535 in the 1960s
#1,098
Brigitte Brigitte is a girl's name from an Irish goddess whose name means the exalted one, and she is the clearest case in Europe of a pagan deity becoming a Christian saint largely intact.
2,531 in the 1960s
#1,099
Roslyn
2,530 in the 1960s
#1,100
Kurtis
2,527 in the 1960s
#1,101
Al
2,525 in the 1960s
#1,102
Jonathon Jonathon respells Jonathan, and the original names a gift — Yahweh has given, borne in scripture by the friend whose bond with David the text describes in terms it uses nowhere else.
2,524 in the 1960s
#1,103
Rosalinda
2,522 in the 1960s
#1,104
Conrad Conrad set its American peak in the most recent year we hold, 2025, on 770 births — a name our records carry from 1880 reaching its high point a hundred and forty-five years later.
2,520 in the 1960s

What made a 1960s name

Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 1960 and 1969, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "1960s 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.