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Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1956)

The rankings exactly as NZ Department of Internal Affairs published them for 1956. 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, 1956

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in New Zealand, 1956

  1. 1Peter
  2. 2John
  3. 3David
  4. 4Michael
  5. 5Paul
  6. 6Stephen
  7. 7Robert
  8. 8Kevin
  9. 9Mark
  10. 10Christopher
  11. 11Ian
  12. 12Richard
  13. 13Brian
  14. 14William
  15. 15Wayne
  16. 16Bruce
  17. 17Anthony
  18. 18James
  19. 19Gary
  20. 20Graeme
  21. 21Alan
  22. 22Murray
  23. 23Graham
  24. 24Grant
  25. 25Colin
  26. 26Barry
  27. 27Geoffrey
  28. 28Andrew
  29. 29Kenneth
  30. 30Neil
  31. 31Gregory
  32. 32Philip
  33. 33Ross
  34. 34Steven
  35. 35Allan
  36. 36Donald
  37. 37Trevor
  38. 38Raymond
  39. 39Stuart
  40. 40Keith
  41. 41Roger
  42. 42Garry
  43. 43Russell
  44. 44Thomas
  45. 45Malcolm
  46. 46Patrick
  47. 47Phillip
  48. 48Jeffrey
  49. 49Douglas
  50. 50Martin
  51. 51Gordon
  52. 52Warren
  53. 53George
  54. 54Ronald
  55. 55Craig
  56. 56Robin
  57. 57Timothy
  58. 58Leslie
  59. 59Gavin
  60. 60Dennis
  61. 61Charles
  62. 62Simon
  63. 63Neville
  64. 64Brent
  65. 65Edward
  66. 66Terence
  67. 67Nigel
  68. 68Bryan
  69. 69Joseph
  70. 70Lindsay
  71. 71Kerry
  72. 72Tony
  73. 73Rex
  74. 74Glenn
  75. 75Rodney
  76. 76Noel
  77. 77Alexander
  78. 78Eric
  79. 79Derek
  80. 80Norman
  81. 81Lance
  82. 82Maurice
  83. 83Shane
  84. 84Gerard
  85. 85Daniel
  86. 86Desmond
  87. 87Nicholas
  88. 88Ivan
  89. 89Bernard
  90. 90Terry
  91. 91Stewart
  92. 92Arthur
  93. 93Kelvin
  94. 94Francis
  95. 95Dean
  96. 96Lawrence
  97. 97Alistair
  98. 98Brett
  99. 99Leonard
  100. 100Owen
Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1956) · Namewise