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Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1955)

The rankings exactly as NZ Department of Internal Affairs published them for 1955. 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, 1955

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in New Zealand, 1955

  1. 1John
  2. 2Peter
  3. 3David
  4. 4Michael
  5. 5Robert
  6. 6Paul
  7. 7Stephen
  8. 8Kevin
  9. 9Christopher
  10. 10Ian
  11. 11Mark
  12. 12Richard
  13. 13William
  14. 14Brian
  15. 15Bruce
  16. 16Murray
  17. 17Alan
  18. 18Anthony
  19. 19Wayne
  20. 20James
  21. 21Graeme
  22. 22Gary
  23. 23Graham
  24. 24Barry
  25. 25Colin
  26. 26Ross
  27. 27Geoffrey
  28. 28Raymond
  29. 29Kenneth
  30. 30Philip
  31. 31Trevor
  32. 32Neil
  33. 33Grant
  34. 34Donald
  35. 35Gregory
  36. 36Steven
  37. 37Allan
  38. 38Garry
  39. 39Roger
  40. 40Andrew
  41. 41Keith
  42. 42Ronald
  43. 43Warren
  44. 44Thomas
  45. 45Russell
  46. 46Dennis
  47. 47Stuart
  48. 48Timothy
  49. 49Malcolm
  50. 50Douglas
  51. 51Edward
  52. 52Phillip
  53. 53Robin
  54. 54Martin
  55. 55Gavin
  56. 56Patrick
  57. 57Gordon
  58. 58Leslie
  59. 59Terence
  60. 60Charles
  61. 61George
  62. 62Craig
  63. 63Lindsay
  64. 64Jeffrey
  65. 65Bryan
  66. 66Joseph
  67. 67Glenn
  68. 68Rex
  69. 69Kerry
  70. 70Noel
  71. 71Neville
  72. 72Nigel
  73. 73Tony
  74. 74Alexander
  75. 75Brent
  76. 76Arthur
  77. 77Rodney
  78. 78Simon
  79. 79Maurice
  80. 80Lance
  81. 81Eric
  82. 82Francis
  83. 83Bernard
  84. 84Stewart
  85. 85Owen
  86. 86Gerard
  87. 87Nicholas
  88. 88Roy
  89. 89Derek
  90. 90Gerald
  91. 91Hugh
  92. 92Warwick
  93. 93Norman
  94. 94Mervyn
  95. 95Desmond
  96. 96Brett
  97. 97Lawrence
  98. 98Shane
  99. 99Lloyd
  100. 100Frank
Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1955) · Namewise