Most popular baby names in New South Wales, Australia (1953)
The rankings exactly as NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages published them for 1953. New South Wales, Australiapublishes a girls' list and a boys' list separately, so they are shown separately — there is no official combined ranking, and Namewise does not invent one.
This source has published 74 complete rankings, from 1952 to 2025. Data sources · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU)
Girls' names
Top 100 in New South Wales, Australia, 1953
- 1Christine
- 2Susan
- 3Jennifer
- 4Margaret
- 5Judith
- 6Robyn
- 7Julie
- 8Lynette
- 9Helen
- 10Patricia
- 11Elizabeth
- 12Cheryl
- 13Anne
- 14Kerry
- 15Sandra
- 16Barbara
- 17Diane
- 18Wendy
- 19Marilyn
- 20Dianne
- 21Mary
- 22Denise
- 23Pamela
- 24Gail
- 25Suzanne
- 26Rhonda
- 27Linda
- 28Catherine
- 29Lorraine
- 30Vicki
- 31Janice
- 32Deborah
- 33Kathleen
- 34Carol
- 35Karen
- 36Janet
- 37Ann
- 38Lesley
- 39Kerrie
- 40Sharon
- 41Maureen
- 42Beverley
- 43Roslyn
- 44Annette
- 45Kay
- 46Colleen
- 47Maria
- 48Carolyn
- 49Heather
- 50Rosemary
- 51Lynne
- 52Leonie
- 53Kathryn
- 54Yvonne
- 55Pauline
- 56Jane
- 57Kim
- 58Janette
- 59Narelle
- 60Marie
- 61Ruth
- 62Shirley
- 63Jeanette
- 64Frances
- 65Glenda
- 66Jan
- 67Bronwyn
- 68Jill
- 69Maree
- 70Joy
- 71Jacqueline
- 72Michelle
- 73Louise
- 74Alison
- 75Debra
- 76Joan
- 77Michele
- 78Susanne
- 79Elaine
- 80Joanne
- 81Irene
- 82Virginia
- 83Dorothy
- 84Robin
- 85Jillian
- 86Sally
- 87Lynn
- 88Marion
- 89Brenda
- 90Carmel
- 91Donna
- 92June
- 93Gayle
- 94Sue
- 95Diana
- 96Valerie
- 97Stephanie
- 98Lynda
- 99Gloria
- 100Paula
Boys' names
Top 100 in New South Wales, Australia, 1953
- 1John
- 2Peter
- 3Robert
- 4Stephen
- 5David
- 6Michael
- 7Paul
- 8Gregory
- 9Gary
- 10Ian
- 11Christopher
- 12William
- 13Mark
- 14Anthony
- 15Wayne
- 16Geoffrey
- 17Phillip
- 18James
- 19Kenneth
- 20Brian
- 21Kevin
- 22Raymond
- 23Garry
- 24Colin
- 25Bruce
- 26Ronald
- 27Alan
- 28Richard
- 29Graham
- 30Barry
- 31Philip
- 32Allan
- 33Steven
- 34Graeme
- 35Neil
- 36Trevor
- 37Ross
- 38Jeffrey
- 39Rodney
- 40Donald
- 41Dennis
- 42Keith
- 43Warren
- 44Leslie
- 45Thomas
- 46Glenn
- 47Douglas
- 48Terence
- 49Andrew
- 50Malcolm
- 51Edward
- 52Patrick
- 53Neville
- 54Noel
- 55Russell
- 56George
- 57Timothy
- 58Terrence
- 59Terry
- 60Charles
- 61Joseph
- 62Norman
- 63Denis
- 64Lindsay
- 65Arthur
- 66Frederick
- 67Gordon
- 68Roger
- 69Kim
- 70Bernard
- 71Eric
- 72Francis
- 73Stillborn
- 74Kerry
- 75Maxwell
- 76Allen
- 77Lawrence
- 78Stuart
- 79Craig
- 80Larry
- 81Adrian
- 82Alexander
- 83Warwick
- 84Grahame
- 85Reginald
- 86Daniel
- 87Glen
- 88Desmond
- 89Martin
- 90Leonard
- 91Jeffery
- 92Frank
- 93Grant
- 94Laurence
- 95Victor
- 96Stanley
- 97Tony
- 98Owen
- 99Harold
- 100Ralph