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Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1957)

The rankings exactly as NZ Department of Internal Affairs published them for 1957. 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, 1957

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in New Zealand, 1957

  1. 1Peter
  2. 2John
  3. 3David
  4. 4Michael
  5. 5Paul
  6. 6Stephen
  7. 7Robert
  8. 8Mark
  9. 9Christopher
  10. 10Kevin
  11. 11Richard
  12. 12Ian
  13. 13Brian
  14. 14Anthony
  15. 15William
  16. 16Bruce
  17. 17Wayne
  18. 18Murray
  19. 19Gary
  20. 20James
  21. 21Alan
  22. 22Graeme
  23. 23Grant
  24. 24Barry
  25. 25Ross
  26. 26Graham
  27. 27Geoffrey
  28. 28Philip
  29. 29Colin
  30. 30Gregory
  31. 31Trevor
  32. 32Kenneth
  33. 33Andrew
  34. 34Neil
  35. 35Allan
  36. 36Steven
  37. 37Donald
  38. 38Garry
  39. 39Keith
  40. 40Raymond
  41. 41Thomas
  42. 42Stuart
  43. 43Phillip
  44. 44Roger
  45. 45Timothy
  46. 46Martin
  47. 47Ronald
  48. 48Warren
  49. 49Russell
  50. 50Patrick
  51. 51Craig
  52. 52Brent
  53. 53Douglas
  54. 54Malcolm
  55. 55Robin
  56. 56Simon
  57. 57Jeffrey
  58. 58Lindsay
  59. 59Nigel
  60. 60Gordon
  61. 61George
  62. 62Gavin
  63. 63Dennis
  64. 64Bryan
  65. 65Tony
  66. 66Charles
  67. 67Neville
  68. 68Edward
  69. 69Leslie
  70. 70Glenn
  71. 71Kerry
  72. 72Brett
  73. 73Joseph
  74. 74Rodney
  75. 75Terence
  76. 76Nicholas
  77. 77Lance
  78. 78Eric
  79. 79Bernard
  80. 80Rex
  81. 81Noel
  82. 82Daniel
  83. 83Owen
  84. 84Alexander
  85. 85Dean
  86. 86Warwick
  87. 87Derek
  88. 88Maurice
  89. 89Terry
  90. 90Gerard
  91. 91Shane
  92. 92Jonathan
  93. 93Darryl
  94. 94Francis
  95. 95Mervyn
  96. 96Norman
  97. 97Gerald
  98. 98Hugh
  99. 99Allen
  100. 100Stewart
Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1957) · Namewise