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Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1954)

The rankings exactly as NZ Department of Internal Affairs published them for 1954. New Zealandpublishes 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 70 complete rankings, from 1954 to 2023. Data sources · Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 International

Girls' names

Top 100 in New Zealand, 1954

  1. 1Christine
  2. 2Susan
  3. 3Margaret
  4. 4Judith
  5. 5Jennifer
  6. 6Mary
  7. 7Elizabeth
  8. 8Patricia
  9. 9Linda
  10. 10Barbara
  11. 11Lynette
  12. 12Robyn
  13. 13Anne
  14. 14Karen
  15. 15Helen
  16. 16Diane
  17. 17Sandra
  18. 18Wendy
  19. 19Janet
  20. 20Heather
  21. 21Pamela
  22. 22Carol
  23. 23Janice
  24. 24Julie
  25. 25Suzanne
  26. 26Lorraine
  27. 27Dianne
  28. 28Marilyn
  29. 29Rosemary
  30. 30Raewyn
  31. 31Kathleen
  32. 32Pauline
  33. 33Alison
  34. 34Gail
  35. 35Denise
  36. 36Sharon
  37. 37Lesley
  38. 38Yvonne
  39. 39Catherine
  40. 40Shirley
  41. 41Beverley
  42. 42Maureen
  43. 43Deborah
  44. 44Jillian
  45. 45Ann
  46. 46Annette
  47. 47Colleen
  48. 48Jane
  49. 49Marie
  50. 50Sheryl
  51. 51Carolyn
  52. 52Frances
  53. 53Kathryn
  54. 54Kay
  55. 55Jacqueline
  56. 56Cheryl
  57. 57Ruth
  58. 58Glenda
  59. 59Maria
  60. 60Sally
  61. 61Lynda
  62. 62Lynne
  63. 63Marion
  64. 64Gillian
  65. 65Glenys
  66. 66Jan
  67. 67Jeanette
  68. 68Elaine
  69. 69Irene
  70. 70Jocelyn
  71. 71Donna
  72. 72Brenda
  73. 73Vicki
  74. 74Josephine
  75. 75Jill
  76. 76Angela
  77. 77Vivienne
  78. 78Valerie
  79. 79Shona
  80. 80Joanne
  81. 81Joy
  82. 82Lois
  83. 83Stephanie
  84. 84Joan
  85. 85Dorothy
  86. 86Paula
  87. 87Diana
  88. 88Gloria
  89. 89Adrienne
  90. 90Bronwyn
  91. 91Marian
  92. 92Lynnette
  93. 93Louise
  94. 94Virginia
  95. 95Penelope
  96. 96Lynn
  97. 97Christina
  98. 98Claire
  99. 99Leonie
  100. 100Ngaire

Boys' names

Top 100 in New Zealand, 1954

  1. 1John
  2. 2David
  3. 3Peter
  4. 4Michael
  5. 5Robert
  6. 6Paul
  7. 7Stephen
  8. 8Kevin
  9. 9Christopher
  10. 10Brian
  11. 11William
  12. 12Ian
  13. 13Mark
  14. 14Richard
  15. 15Alan
  16. 16Bruce
  17. 17Murray
  18. 18Graeme
  19. 19Wayne
  20. 20James
  21. 21Gary
  22. 22Anthony
  23. 23Graham
  24. 24Philip
  25. 25Barry
  26. 26Colin
  27. 27Trevor
  28. 28Kenneth
  29. 29Ross
  30. 30Grant
  31. 31Geoffrey
  32. 32Raymond
  33. 33Keith
  34. 34Allan
  35. 35Donald
  36. 36Ronald
  37. 37Roger
  38. 38Steven
  39. 39Gregory
  40. 40Neil
  41. 41Andrew
  42. 42Warren
  43. 43Garry
  44. 44Russell
  45. 45Thomas
  46. 46Dennis
  47. 47Phillip
  48. 48Stuart
  49. 49Douglas
  50. 50George
  51. 51Robin
  52. 52Leslie
  53. 53Malcolm
  54. 54Gordon
  55. 55Edward
  56. 56Neville
  57. 57Terence
  58. 58Martin
  59. 59Charles
  60. 60Patrick
  61. 61Timothy
  62. 62Lindsay
  63. 63Noel
  64. 64Rex
  65. 65Kerry
  66. 66Joseph
  67. 67Brent
  68. 68Craig
  69. 69Jeffrey
  70. 70Gavin
  71. 71Rodney
  72. 72Nigel
  73. 73Alexander
  74. 74Bryan
  75. 75Owen
  76. 76Tony
  77. 77Eric
  78. 78Lawrence
  79. 79Glenn
  80. 80Arthur
  81. 81Bernard
  82. 82Denis
  83. 83Ivan
  84. 84Francis
  85. 85Mervyn
  86. 86Henry
  87. 87Gerard
  88. 88Norman
  89. 89Derek
  90. 90Desmond
  91. 91Simon
  92. 92Maurice
  93. 93Nicholas
  94. 94Lance
  95. 95Brett
  96. 96Daniel
  97. 97Frederick
  98. 98Roy
  99. 99Stewart
  100. 100Kelvin
Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1954) · Namewise