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Top Baby Names in the 20th Century

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1900′s Baby Boy Names

John
William
James
George
Charles

1900′s Baby Girl Names

Mary
Helen
Margaret
Anna
Ruth

1910′s Baby Boy Names

John
William
James
Robert
Joseph

1910′s Baby Girl Names

Mary
Helen
Dorothy
Margaret
Ruth

1920′s Baby Boy Names

Robert
John
James
William
Charles

1920′s Baby Girl Names

Mary
Dorothy
Helen
Betty
Margaret

1930′s Baby Boy Names

Robert
John
James
William
Charles

1930′s Baby Girl Names

Mary
Betty
Barbara
Shirley
Patricia

1940′s Baby Boy Names

James
Robert
John
William
Richard

1940′s Baby Girl Names

Mary
Linda
Barbara
Patricia
Carol

1950′s Baby Boy Names

James
Michael
Robert
John
David

1950′s Baby Girl Names

Mary
Linda
Patricia
Susan
Deborah

1960′s Baby Boy Names

Michael
David
John
James
Robert

1960′s Baby Girl Names

Lisa
Mary
Susan
Karen
Kimberly

1970′s Baby Boy Names

Michael
Christopher
Jason
David
James

1970′s Baby Girl Names

Jennifer
Amy
Melissa
Michelle
Kimberly

1980′s Baby Boy Names

Michael
Christopher
Matthew
Joshua
David

1980′s Baby Girl Names

Jessica
Jennifer
Amanda
Ashley
Sarah

1990′s Baby Boy Names

Michael
Christopher
Matthew
Joshua
Jacob

1990′s Baby Girl Names

Jessica
Ashley
Emily
Sarah
Samantha

Which decade has the most adorable baby names? Share in the comments!

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Single Holiday 5 pts

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Sonya76 24 pts

It's funny how baby names come round full circle. It seems amongst all my friends that traditional names are making a come back.

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glass splashbacks 5 pts

Argentina is one of the countries that only allows newborns to be named one of their approved names, and they have a list of these. I have been unsuccessful in finding this online.

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ngv tanks 5 pts

I think the 20th century names are most popular..

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AddanacCity 12 pts

I guess I came in nicely since my name is George William Ford. My wife kept thinking that was some boring pseudonym when we first met. She said, "There's no way that's your real name!".

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Ha! I can't comment on that one guy who just wasn't good enough to make it to the big game. Still dig the posts though.

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frigginloon 6 pts

I kinda of like the modern names like Apple Peel Me A Banana. Come on really, who wants to be a Tom , Dick or Harry?

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SpilledInkGuy 25 pts

Wow...

I would have been in the big-time in the 20's and 30's!

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Scholar Mel 18 pts moderator

SpilledInkGuy Okay, Robert John.

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ButterSword 5 pts

Any era but lately! Please name you're child something normal. Better yet don't have children. If you insist name the child something normal. What you think is an interesting name won't make the child interesting. Just warped. Also they'll hate you. ---Merret Curtis Miller

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Binky 31 pts

ButterSword Yes, if you name your kids Binky, Winky, Twink, or Fraz, you'll be doing everyone a favor.

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ButterSword 5 pts

Binky I'd kill to be named Fraz. :)

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Scholar Mel 18 pts moderator

Binky Hmm... I'm not so sure about that. ;-)

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Scholar Mel 18 pts moderator

ButterSword I will name my child something much more normal than Scholar Mel.

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John Erickson 13 pts

I'll have to stick with the 20th century, especially the foremost of the boys' names. Then again, I'm kinda biased, for obvious reasons!

By the by, I'm told John means "Given by God". Guess even HE couldn't stand me! :D

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Scholar Mel 18 pts moderator

John Erickson Maybe "Given by God" also means "Recommended by God"

:-)

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Young American Wisdom

This was a fun post to check out. We stuck with the traditional names for our kids and just spruced them up a bit with more modern nicknames. William-Will, James-Jay, Anna Katherine-Anna Kate. When their older they can adjust them if they want.

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Scholar Mel 18 pts moderator

I am glad you enjoyed the post. I am really having fun with my new plugin (Easy Pagination for WordPress).

My real name is very traditional also. It made the list. And everybody thought my name was Scholar Mel. :-)

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Tony McGurk 13 pts

Hey Mel There's no comment form for the Tim Tebow post. I wanted to say that he looks like Hamish McLeod an Australian radio bloke

http://www.hamishandandy.com/

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Tony McGurk

i couldn't find the comment form either. Tons of people land on my site searching for "Kate Middleton's armpits" or "Does Kate Middleton shave her armpits?" So, to add to your list of what Tim Tebow is searching for in a woman, I'd like to add...nice armpits.

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Scholar Mel 18 pts moderator

Tony McGurk Nancy! You're the reason I didn't leave a comment form ;-)

Seriously though, you're cracking me up :-D

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Scholar Mel 18 pts moderator

Tony McGurk There was no comment form on purpose. ;-)

He does look a little like the Scottish named Australian bloke. :-)

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Tony McGurk 13 pts

Scholar Mel Hamish & Andy are absolutely hilarious blokes. I don't know if you had a look at some of their site content but it's well worth the effort.

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Scholar Mel 18 pts moderator

Tony McGurk I'll take a look. Is Hamish a common name in Australia? I know the name from the movie Braveheart.

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Tony McGurk 13 pts

Scholar Mel I wouldn't say it's overly common. I wanted to call Angus Hamish but Michelle hated it. Angus was my 2nd choice. If I decided to change my name it would be Hamish 'cos I just really like it. Although McGurk's Irish not Scottish.

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Tony McGurk 13 pts

Scholar Mel P.S. I borrowed/stole/hijacked your header to use for my "Today's Featured Site" as I couldn't find a Dummies banner on your site anywhere.

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Scholar Mel 18 pts moderator

Tony McGurk Oh wow, you'd sound Scottish-Irish instead of New York Italian-Irish. :-)

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Scholar Mel 18 pts moderator

Tony McGurk Not a problem. That's kind of funny because I also stole a screen shot of your site for a post that comes out tomorrow while I am 30,000 feet over the Atlantic.

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Miss R 11 pts

Wow. nail on the head -again. Can't count the number of boys and girls I grew up with sporting the '1960's' names.

It's funny how many have stayed the same, or reappear, over the years. Not many Margarets anymore, nor Dorothys (my mother's name). So, tastes and times clearly change. Seems as your list gets closer to the current decades the less likely names are to re-appear. Hmmm when did parents begin calling their children with non-family names? For instance; my first name is Rachael, it was my mother's middle name and a great grandmother's first name.

Many of my contemporary friends also have their own traditional family monikers as their first or second name.

Just don't see that as much anymore.

Nifty piece Mel. thank you!

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Scholar Mel 18 pts moderator

Miss R Thank you for this very nice comment.

My wife and I plan on giving our children our first for their middle.

I noticed that for the first 50 years that the names were pretty consistent but then they start mixing a bit for the last 50. Boys stayed more consistent than the girls... but what's new ;-) (just kidding)

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Tony McGurk 13 pts

These sure are better than some of the wacky names that some celebrities give their kids. All the boy names were Kings of England too maybe that added to their popularity

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Scholar Mel 18 pts moderator

Tony McGurk Yeah I think they were all kings until we hit around the 50's. Then David becomes popular but I suppose he was a king also if we go back a few years :-)

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