Names that belong entirely to the 1950s
Every decade signs its name in the records. These reached their all-time top-100 peak in the 1950s — the years of diners, drive-ins and picket fences — 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
- Deborah#2 in 1955 · rare today
- Susan#2 in 1957 · rare today
- Debra#2 in 1956 · rare today
- Donna#5 in 1959 · rare today
- Nancy#6 in 1950 · rare today
- Cynthia#7 in 1957 · rare today
- Pamela#10 in 1953 · rare today
- Cheryl#13 in 1958 · rare today
- Kathy#14 in 1958 · rare today
- Diane#14 in 1955 · rare today
- Cindy#19 in 1957 · rare today
- Debbie#20 in 1959 · rare today
- Janice#21 in 1951 · rare today
- Denise#23 in 1955 · rare today
- Theresa#32 in 1956 · rare today
- Cathy#34 in 1958 · rare today
- Connie#35 in 1955 · rare today
- Gail#36 in 1951 · rare today
- Paula#38 in 1954 · rare today
- Kathryn#45 in 1951 · rare today
- Terri#46 in 1959 · rare today
- Darlene#49 in 1958 · rare today
- Vicki#50 in 1954 · rare today
- Lynn#58 in 1956 · rare today
Boys
- Gary#9 in 1954 · rare today
- Bruce#25 in 1952 · rare today
- Randy#28 in 1956 · rare today
- Ricky#34 in 1958 · rare today
- Steve#41 in 1959 · rare today
- Dale#46 in 1952 · rare today
- Randall#53 in 1955 · rare today
- Tim#60 in 1959 · rare today
- Phillip#64 in 1950 · rare today
- Rick#77 in 1958 · rare today
- Micheal#83 in 1956 · rare today
- Kim#98 in 1955 · rare today
How this list is built: Names whose all-time top-100 peak fell in the 1950s and which now rank outside the national top-300 (or are unranked). Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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