Names that belong entirely to the 1960s
Every decade signs its name in the records. These reached their all-time top-100 peak in the 1960s — the years of transistor radios and moon-shot dreams — 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
- Lisa#1 in 1962 · rare today
- Kimberly#2 in 1966 · rare today
- Michelle#2 in 1968 · rare today
- Karen#3 in 1965 · rare today
- Tammy#8 in 1966 · rare today
- Lori#8 in 1963 · rare today
- Laura#10 in 1969 · rare today
- Brenda#11 in 1961 · rare today
- Christine#14 in 1967 · rare today
- Teresa#18 in 1961 · rare today
- Tina#18 in 1968 · rare today
- Robin#25 in 1962 · rare today
- Michele#29 in 1968 · rare today
- Kim#34 in 1960 · rare today
- Rhonda#37 in 1965 · rare today
- Jacqueline#37 in 1961 · rare today
- Laurie#37 in 1960 · rare today
- Sherry#48 in 1962 · rare today
- Sheila#50 in 1963 · rare today
- Gina#54 in 1967 · rare today
- Annette#62 in 1960 · rare today
- Renee#62 in 1967 · rare today
- Beth#65 in 1961 · rare today
- Carla#76 in 1965 · rare today
Boys
- Jeffrey#9 in 1966 · rare today
- Gregory#21 in 1962 · rare today
- Todd#28 in 1964 · rare today
- Keith#32 in 1966 · rare today
- Rodney#33 in 1965 · rare today
- Mike#36 in 1960 · rare today
- Craig#39 in 1969 · rare today
- Troy#40 in 1967 · rare today
- Jeffery#42 in 1966 · rare today
- Jeff#44 in 1962 · rare today
- Tony#48 in 1965 · rare today
- Darren#52 in 1965 · rare today
- Glenn#55 in 1962 · rare today
- Chris#55 in 1966 · rare today
- Barry#61 in 1962 · rare today
- Jon#65 in 1968 · rare today
- Darryl#68 in 1965 · rare today
- Curtis#72 in 1963 · rare today
- Greg#77 in 1961 · rare today
- Jay#78 in 1960 · rare today
- Darrell#86 in 1967 · rare today
- Kelly#97 in 1968 · rare today
- Tracy#98 in 1966 · rare today
How this list is built: Names whose all-time top-100 peak fell in the 1960s and which now rank outside the national top-300 (or are unranked). Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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