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Most popular baby names in New South Wales, Australia (1956)

The rankings exactly as NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages published them for 1956. 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, 1956

  1. 1Jennifer
  2. 2Susan
  3. 3Julie
  4. 4Christine
  5. 5Margaret
  6. 6Karen
  7. 7Deborah
  8. 8Robyn
  9. 9Helen
  10. 10Lynette
  11. 11Kerry
  12. 12Vicki
  13. 13Judith
  14. 14Wendy
  15. 15Anne
  16. 16Elizabeth
  17. 17Patricia
  18. 18Cheryl
  19. 19Debra
  20. 20Linda
  21. 21Suzanne
  22. 22Catherine
  23. 23Mary
  24. 24Sandra
  25. 25Sharon
  26. 26Kim
  27. 27Dianne
  28. 28Diane
  29. 29Kerrie
  30. 30Pamela
  31. 31Denise
  32. 32Gail
  33. 33Carol
  34. 34Ann
  35. 35Barbara
  36. 36Rhonda
  37. 37Kathleen
  38. 38Maria
  39. 39Annette
  40. 40Lorraine
  41. 41Narelle
  42. 42Janet
  43. 43Jane
  44. 44Louise
  45. 45Janice
  46. 46Joanne
  47. 47Kathryn
  48. 48Maureen
  49. 49Heather
  50. 50Leonie
  51. 51Roslyn
  52. 52Colleen
  53. 53Jeanette
  54. 54Maree
  55. 55Michele
  56. 56Rosemary
  57. 57Lesley
  58. 58Glenda
  59. 59Lynne
  60. 60Beverley
  61. 61Amanda
  62. 62Michelle
  63. 63Janette
  64. 64Kay
  65. 65Janelle
  66. 66Donna
  67. 67Shirley
  68. 68Bronwyn
  69. 69Carolyn
  70. 70Jacqueline
  71. 71Yvonne
  72. 72Jan
  73. 73Ruth
  74. 74Pauline
  75. 75Sally
  76. 76Frances
  77. 77Jill
  78. 78Marie
  79. 79Alison
  80. 80Penelope
  81. 81Susanne
  82. 82Joy
  83. 83Sue
  84. 84Lynn
  85. 85Lynda
  86. 86Dorothy
  87. 87Fiona
  88. 88Carmel
  89. 89Joan
  90. 90Victoria
  91. 91Katherine
  92. 92Janine
  93. 93Marilyn
  94. 94Lee
  95. 95Anna
  96. 96Toni
  97. 97Irene
  98. 98Marion
  99. 99Sheryl
  100. 100Therese

Boys' names

Top 100 in New South Wales, Australia, 1956

  1. 1Peter
  2. 2John
  3. 3David
  4. 4Stephen
  5. 5Michael
  6. 6Robert
  7. 7Mark
  8. 8Gregory
  9. 9Paul
  10. 10Ian
  11. 11Wayne
  12. 12Anthony
  13. 13Christopher
  14. 14Gary
  15. 15Kevin
  16. 16Geoffrey
  17. 17Garry
  18. 18Phillip
  19. 19William
  20. 20James
  21. 21Brian
  22. 22Colin
  23. 23Richard
  24. 24Bruce
  25. 25Steven
  26. 26Graham
  27. 27Kenneth
  28. 28Raymond
  29. 29Alan
  30. 30Ronald
  31. 31Allan
  32. 32Barry
  33. 33Rodney
  34. 34Glenn
  35. 35Philip
  36. 36Andrew
  37. 37Neil
  38. 38Jeffrey
  39. 39Trevor
  40. 40Ross
  41. 41Graeme
  42. 42Keith
  43. 43Warren
  44. 44Leslie
  45. 45Thomas
  46. 46Malcolm
  47. 47Donald
  48. 48Douglas
  49. 49Timothy
  50. 50George
  51. 51Martin
  52. 52Joseph
  53. 53Patrick
  54. 54Terry
  55. 55Edward
  56. 56Craig
  57. 57Kim
  58. 58Terrence
  59. 59Russell
  60. 60Noel
  61. 61Shane
  62. 62Terence
  63. 63Dennis
  64. 64Gordon
  65. 65Glen
  66. 66Neville
  67. 67Roger
  68. 68Stuart
  69. 69Tony
  70. 70Eric
  71. 71Darryl
  72. 72Charles
  73. 73Brett
  74. 74Grant
  75. 75Norman
  76. 76Larry
  77. 77Grahame
  78. 78Daniel
  79. 79Francis
  80. 80Daryl
  81. 81Bernard
  82. 82Arthur
  83. 83Bradley
  84. 84Leonard
  85. 85Allen
  86. 86Frank
  87. 87Alexander
  88. 88Nicholas
  89. 89Simon
  90. 90Gerard
  91. 91Lindsay
  92. 92Jeffery
  93. 93Kerry
  94. 94Victor
  95. 95Lawrence
  96. 96Warwick
  97. 97Kelvin
  98. 98Laurence
  99. 99Desmond
  100. 100Maxwell