Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Top names of the 1960s
Top names of the 1960s: The following table shows the 200 most popular given names for male and female babies born during 1960 - 1969. For each rank and sex, the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name. The 200 most popular names were taken from a universe that includes 19,617,720 male births and 18,899,276 female births.
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Deborah at number 12! Yeah--whenever I meet a fellow Deb, Debbie, or Deborah, I know she'll be a "woman of a certain age" because no one is naming their daughters Deborah anymore.
Both of my parents came from large families and I have over 30 first cousins. In that group (almost all born between 1955 and 1965) there are two Stevens, two Marks, two Daniels, two Theresas, two Johns, and two Pauls. By the time those cousins started having kids, we encounter Lauras, Emmas, Alicias, and Dylans. And now they're having children in the Aiden and Madison categories.
#1 is Lisa. My sister jumped the gun by being born in 1959.
I see Betty and Becky and Beth but no Betsy, my younger sister, though her middle name (Robin) does make it. Jacqueline was a surprisingly high 51, with Jackie at 148. Jeffrey was 10. Both of us were over a decade past, however, as was my brother (Kenneth, 21).
Deb, when I went to school I knew a lot of Stevens, Larrys, Susans, Barbaras, and the like, though my best friends in high school were Roy, Jan, and Doug[las].
I'm #73 and surprised to see my name on there at all. But I'm not a child of the '60s. Or the '50s.
Neither am I, Bill. Then again, it could have been worse.
My grandmothers had sisters named Yetta, Tillie, Gussie, abd Beatie.
Deb, I just clicked on the '50s and Deborah was #5 with Debra (as in Paget, presumably) #7.
What can I say? We Debs are a dying breed. Throw us in the corner with the Agneses, Mildreds, and Mabels of yore.
Jeff--weren't those the names of Woody Allen's great-aunts in "Annie Hall"?
I'm *glad* my name has fallen out of the top slot or two it occupied during the '50s (when I was born) and '60s. Too damn many of us. When I was on a foreign study year in Japan, there were 83 students in my group, and 7 of the men were named Michael.
I had only one in my high school class, a very good friend.
My brother and I are at 7 and 8, though we were born in the 40s (well, '39 and '45). But William and Richard are still around if not so popular. I suppose when lists like this come out for the current decade, we'll see names like Donte and JaWare.
My given name was 174th in "popularity" in one of the olden decades 8-)
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