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
- 1Jennifer
- 2Karen
- 3Susan
- 4Julie
- 5Deborah
- 6Donna
- 7Sharon
- 8Kim
- 9Michelle
- 10Catherine
- 11Joanne
- 12Christine
- 13Sandra
- 14Robyn
- 15Elizabeth
- 16Wendy
- 17Margaret
- 18Debra
- 19Vicki
- 20Leanne
- 21Helen
- 22Linda
- 23Anne
- 24Tracey
- 25Lynette
- 26Mary
- 27Kerry
- 28Louise
- 29Maria
- 30Cheryl
- 31Patricia
- 32Suzanne
- 33Jane
- 34Debbie
- 35Kerrie
- 36Judith
- 37Kathryn
- 38Carol
- 39Lisa
- 40Annette
- 41Diane
- 42Dianne
- 43Jacqueline
- 44Narelle
- 45Carolyn
- 46Fiona
- 47Kathleen
- 48Amanda
- 49Denise
- 50Rhonda
- 51Alison
- 52Tracy
- 53Ann
- 54Gail
- 55Michele
- 56Maree
- 57Janelle
- 58Leonie
- 59Belinda
- 60Barbara
- 61Angela
- 62Janet
- 63Katherine
- 64Anna
- 65Tanya
- 66Sally
- 67Colleen
- 68Rosemary
- 69Roslyn
- 70Heather
- 71Pamela
- 72Bronwyn
- 73Lorraine
- 74Frances
- 75Lynne
- 76Lesley
- 77Ruth
- 78Therese
- 79Janice
- 80Pauline
- 81Janine
- 82Victoria
- 83Caroline
- 84Jo-Anne
- 85Janette
- 86Toni
- 87Diana
- 88Lee
- 89Kay
- 90Brenda
- 91Megan
- 92Jeanette
- 93Susanne
- 94Maureen
- 95Bernadette
- 96Marie
- 97Yvonne
- 98Glenda
- 99Jan
- 100Shirley
Boys' names
Top 100 in New South Wales, Australia, 1961
- 1David
- 2Peter
- 3Mark
- 4Michael
- 5John
- 6Stephen
- 7Robert
- 8Gregory
- 9Paul
- 10Anthony
- 11Christopher
- 12Steven
- 13Ian
- 14Craig
- 15Wayne
- 16Andrew
- 17Glenn
- 18Brett
- 19Gary
- 20Richard
- 21James
- 22Kevin
- 23Geoffrey
- 24Brian
- 25William
- 26Phillip
- 27Garry
- 28Rodney
- 29Bruce
- 30Colin
- 31Graham
- 32Jeffrey
- 33Timothy
- 34Kenneth
- 35Scott
- 36Raymond
- 37Neil
- 38Graeme
- 39Philip
- 40Alan
- 41Ross
- 42Glen
- 43Ronald
- 44Warren
- 45Barry
- 46Trevor
- 47Shane
- 48Matthew
- 49Grant
- 50Darren
- 51Allan
- 52Bradley
- 53Martin
- 54George
- 55Stuart
- 56Russell
- 57Tony
- 58Donald
- 59Patrick
- 60Thomas
- 61Malcolm
- 62Keith
- 63Joseph
- 64Leslie
- 65Terry
- 66Daniel
- 67Darryl
- 68Ricky
- 69Dean
- 70Douglas
- 71Simon
- 72Terrence
- 73Dennis
- 74Edward
- 75Gordon
- 76Nicholas
- 77Bernard
- 78Roger
- 79Charles
- 80Eric
- 81Murray
- 82Daryl
- 83Noel
- 84Adam
- 85Terence
- 86Gerard
- 87Alexander
- 88Jeffery
- 89Dale
- 90Frank
- 91Norman
- 92Adrian
- 93Francis
- 94Neville
- 95Warwick
- 96Giuseppe
- 97Kelvin
- 98Lance
- 99Leonard
- 100Guy