Most popular baby names in New South Wales, Australia (1959)
The rankings exactly as NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages published them for 1959. 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, 1959
- 1Jennifer
- 2Susan
- 3Julie
- 4Deborah
- 5Karen
- 6Kim
- 7Debra
- 8Christine
- 9Sharon
- 10Catherine
- 11Margaret
- 12Vicki
- 13Robyn
- 14Wendy
- 15Elizabeth
- 16Helen
- 17Cheryl
- 18Joanne
- 19Lynette
- 20Donna
- 21Michelle
- 22Kerry
- 23Anne
- 24Linda
- 25Judith
- 26Mary
- 27Sandra
- 28Patricia
- 29Maria
- 30Kerrie
- 31Debbie
- 32Suzanne
- 33Annette
- 34Louise
- 35Dianne
- 36Jane
- 37Rhonda
- 38Diane
- 39Kathleen
- 40Leanne
- 41Kathryn
- 42Narelle
- 43Carol
- 44Ann
- 45Denise
- 46Tracey
- 47Barbara
- 48Pamela
- 49Carolyn
- 50Leonie
- 51Amanda
- 52Heather
- 53Gail
- 54Michele
- 55Janelle
- 56Janet
- 57Lorraine
- 58Fiona
- 59Maree
- 60Rosemary
- 61Roslyn
- 62Lesley
- 63Janice
- 64Lisa
- 65Lynne
- 66Alison
- 67Maureen
- 68Colleen
- 69Sally
- 70Frances
- 71Angela
- 72Anna
- 73Yvonne
- 74Glenda
- 75Shirley
- 76Susanne
- 77Jan
- 78Janette
- 79Ruth
- 80Therese
- 81Pauline
- 82Beverley
- 83Jeanette
- 84Jacqueline
- 85Katherine
- 86Belinda
- 87Bronwyn
- 88Tanya
- 89Marie
- 90Toni
- 91Lynda
- 92Megan
- 93Kay
- 94Diana
- 95Lee
- 96Victoria
- 97Virginia
- 98Janine
- 99Bernadette
- 100Jill
Boys' names
Top 100 in New South Wales, Australia, 1959
- 1Peter
- 2David
- 3Mark
- 4Michael
- 5John
- 6Stephen
- 7Gregory
- 8Robert
- 9Paul
- 10Anthony
- 11Wayne
- 12Ian
- 13Christopher
- 14Steven
- 15Gary
- 16Geoffrey
- 17Richard
- 18James
- 19Garry
- 20Brian
- 21William
- 22Kevin
- 23Phillip
- 24Craig
- 25Colin
- 26Graham
- 27Bruce
- 28Rodney
- 29Glenn
- 30Andrew
- 31Raymond
- 32Brett
- 33Philip
- 34Jeffrey
- 35Kenneth
- 36Alan
- 37Bradley
- 38Ronald
- 39Neil
- 40Ross
- 41Barry
- 42Timothy
- 43Graeme
- 44Trevor
- 45Warren
- 46Allan
- 47Shane
- 48George
- 49Terry
- 50Glen
- 51Martin
- 52Thomas
- 53Russell
- 54Leslie
- 55Malcolm
- 56Stuart
- 57Joseph
- 58Scott
- 59Donald
- 60Keith
- 61Grant
- 62Tony
- 63Patrick
- 64Edward
- 65Noel
- 66Douglas
- 67Matthew
- 68Daniel
- 69Gordon
- 70Terrence
- 71Dennis
- 72Charles
- 73Dean
- 74Frank
- 75Roger
- 76Dale
- 77Darryl
- 78Nicholas
- 79Simon
- 80Murray
- 81Eric
- 82Terence
- 83Neville
- 84Francis
- 85Bernard
- 86Norman
- 87Alexander
- 88Grahame
- 89Daryl
- 90Gerard
- 91Jeffery
- 92Ricky
- 93Lee
- 94Adrian
- 95Perry
- 96Frederick
- 97Warwick
- 98Maxwell
- 99Arthur
- 100Guy