Names that belong entirely to the 1940s
Every decade signs its name in the records. These reached their all-time top-100 peak in the 1940s — the years of victory gardens and swing bands — and have since stepped out of the mainstream.
Choose one to honor that generation, or simply enjoy the most concentrated time capsule the records can offer.
Girls
- Linda#1 in 1947 · rare today
- Judith#4 in 1940 · rare today
- Carol#4 in 1941 · rare today
- Sandra#5 in 1947 · rare today
- Sharon#8 in 1943 · rare today
- Kathleen#9 in 1949 · rare today
- Carolyn#10 in 1942 · rare today
- Judy#11 in 1946 · rare today
- Bonnie#33 in 1941 · rare today
- Carole#35 in 1942 · rare today
- Jo#51 in 1947 · rare today
- Suzanne#52 in 1946 · rare today
- Ellen#58 in 1946 · rare today
- Sue#61 in 1946 · rare today
- Eileen#68 in 1943 · rare today
- Kay#70 in 1941 · rare today
- Dianne#72 in 1945 · rare today
- Lynda#77 in 1947 · rare today
- Glenda#79 in 1944 · rare today
- Jeanne#83 in 1946 · rare today
- Constance#83 in 1949 · rare today
- Maureen#88 in 1948 · rare today
- Charlene#100 in 1949 · rare today
Boys
- Ronald#9 in 1941 · rare today
- Larry#10 in 1947 · rare today
- Jerry#14 in 1940 · rare today
- Dennis#16 in 1949 · rare today
- Stephen#19 in 1949 · rare today
- Roger#22 in 1945 · rare today
- Douglas#23 in 1942 · rare today
- Terry#26 in 1946 · rare today
- Wayne#29 in 1946 · rare today
- Lawrence#30 in 1942 · rare today
- Danny#39 in 1947 · rare today
- Jimmy#41 in 1944 · rare today
- Johnny#45 in 1944 · rare today
- Philip#52 in 1941 · rare today
- Ronnie#54 in 1946 · rare today
- Tommy#70 in 1944 · rare today
- Allen#71 in 1940 · rare today
How this list is built: Names whose all-time top-100 peak fell in the 1940s and which now rank outside the national top-300 (or are unranked). Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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