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
- 1Jennifer
- 2Susan
- 3Julie
- 4Christine
- 5Margaret
- 6Karen
- 7Deborah
- 8Robyn
- 9Helen
- 10Lynette
- 11Kerry
- 12Vicki
- 13Judith
- 14Wendy
- 15Anne
- 16Elizabeth
- 17Patricia
- 18Cheryl
- 19Debra
- 20Linda
- 21Suzanne
- 22Catherine
- 23Mary
- 24Sandra
- 25Sharon
- 26Kim
- 27Dianne
- 28Diane
- 29Kerrie
- 30Pamela
- 31Denise
- 32Gail
- 33Carol
- 34Ann
- 35Barbara
- 36Rhonda
- 37Kathleen
- 38Maria
- 39Annette
- 40Lorraine
- 41Narelle
- 42Janet
- 43Jane
- 44Louise
- 45Janice
- 46Joanne
- 47Kathryn
- 48Maureen
- 49Heather
- 50Leonie
- 51Roslyn
- 52Colleen
- 53Jeanette
- 54Maree
- 55Michele
- 56Rosemary
- 57Lesley
- 58Glenda
- 59Lynne
- 60Beverley
- 61Amanda
- 62Michelle
- 63Janette
- 64Kay
- 65Janelle
- 66Donna
- 67Shirley
- 68Bronwyn
- 69Carolyn
- 70Jacqueline
- 71Yvonne
- 72Jan
- 73Ruth
- 74Pauline
- 75Sally
- 76Frances
- 77Jill
- 78Marie
- 79Alison
- 80Penelope
- 81Susanne
- 82Joy
- 83Sue
- 84Lynn
- 85Lynda
- 86Dorothy
- 87Fiona
- 88Carmel
- 89Joan
- 90Victoria
- 91Katherine
- 92Janine
- 93Marilyn
- 94Lee
- 95Anna
- 96Toni
- 97Irene
- 98Marion
- 99Sheryl
- 100Therese
Boys' names
Top 100 in New South Wales, Australia, 1956
- 1Peter
- 2John
- 3David
- 4Stephen
- 5Michael
- 6Robert
- 7Mark
- 8Gregory
- 9Paul
- 10Ian
- 11Wayne
- 12Anthony
- 13Christopher
- 14Gary
- 15Kevin
- 16Geoffrey
- 17Garry
- 18Phillip
- 19William
- 20James
- 21Brian
- 22Colin
- 23Richard
- 24Bruce
- 25Steven
- 26Graham
- 27Kenneth
- 28Raymond
- 29Alan
- 30Ronald
- 31Allan
- 32Barry
- 33Rodney
- 34Glenn
- 35Philip
- 36Andrew
- 37Neil
- 38Jeffrey
- 39Trevor
- 40Ross
- 41Graeme
- 42Keith
- 43Warren
- 44Leslie
- 45Thomas
- 46Malcolm
- 47Donald
- 48Douglas
- 49Timothy
- 50George
- 51Martin
- 52Joseph
- 53Patrick
- 54Terry
- 55Edward
- 56Craig
- 57Kim
- 58Terrence
- 59Russell
- 60Noel
- 61Shane
- 62Terence
- 63Dennis
- 64Gordon
- 65Glen
- 66Neville
- 67Roger
- 68Stuart
- 69Tony
- 70Eric
- 71Darryl
- 72Charles
- 73Brett
- 74Grant
- 75Norman
- 76Larry
- 77Grahame
- 78Daniel
- 79Francis
- 80Daryl
- 81Bernard
- 82Arthur
- 83Bradley
- 84Leonard
- 85Allen
- 86Frank
- 87Alexander
- 88Nicholas
- 89Simon
- 90Gerard
- 91Lindsay
- 92Jeffery
- 93Kerry
- 94Victor
- 95Lawrence
- 96Warwick
- 97Kelvin
- 98Laurence
- 99Desmond
- 100Maxwell