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Most popular baby names in New South Wales, Australia (1961)

The rankings exactly as NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages published them for 1961. 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, 1961

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in New South Wales, Australia, 1961

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