Top 1950s baby names

The year 1950 dawned on a United States whose population had crossed the 150 million mark.

Disney’s Cinderella debuted on the silver screen, the comic strip Peanuts made its first appearance, and the first Volkswagen Microbus rolled off the assembly line in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno, musicians Peter Gabriel, Natalie Cole, Peter Frampton, David Cassidy and Stevie Wonder — along with actors Bill Murray, Ed Harris, Martin Short and Richard Dean Anderson — were all born into the world in 1950.

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Top 1950s baby names for girls

1. Linda
2. Mary
3. Patricia
4. Barbara
5. Susan
6. Nancy
7. Deborah
8. Sandra
9. Carol
10. Kathleen
11. Sharon
12. Karen
13. Donna
14. Brenda
15. Margaret
16. Diane
17. Pamela
18. Janet
19. Shirley
20. Carolyn
21. Judith
22. Janice
23. Cynthia
24. Elizabeth
25. Judy
26. Betty
27. Joyce
28. Christine
29. Cheryl
30. Gloria
31. Beverly
32. Martha
33. Bonnie
34. Catherine
35. Dorothy
36. Rebecca
37. Marilyn
38. Kathy
39. Jane
40. Joan
41. Peggy
42. Gail
43. Virginia
44. Connie
45. Ann
46. Kathryn
47. Diana
48. Jean
49. Ruth
50. Helen

Top 1950s baby names for boys

1. James
2. Robert
3. John
4. Michael
5. David
6. William
7. Richard
8. Thomas
9. Charles
10. Gary
11. Larry
12. Ronald
13. Joseph
14. Donald
15. Kenneth
16. Steven
17. Dennis
18. Paul
19. Stephen
20. George
21. Daniel
22. Edward
23. Mark
24. Jerry
25. Gregory
26. Bruce
27. Roger
28. Douglas
29. Frank
30. Terry
31. Raymond
32. Timothy
33. Lawrence
34. Gerald
35. Wayne
36. Anthony
37. Peter
38. Patrick
39. Danny
40. Walter
41. Alan
42. Willie
43. Jeffrey
44. Carl
45. Harold
46. Arthur
47. Henry
48. Jack
49. Dale
50. Johnny

Source: US Social Security Administration