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Most popular baby names in New South Wales, Australia (1962)

The rankings exactly as NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages published them for 1962. 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, 1962

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in New South Wales, Australia, 1962

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