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Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1961)

The rankings exactly as NZ Department of Internal Affairs published them for 1961. 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, 1961

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in New Zealand, 1961

  1. 1David
  2. 2Peter
  3. 3Michael
  4. 4John
  5. 5Mark
  6. 6Stephen
  7. 7Paul
  8. 8Robert
  9. 9Andrew
  10. 10Christopher
  11. 11Richard
  12. 12Anthony
  13. 13Kevin
  14. 14Ian
  15. 15Wayne
  16. 16William
  17. 17Gregory
  18. 18Craig
  19. 19Grant
  20. 20Steven
  21. 21James
  22. 22Bruce
  23. 23Gary
  24. 24Murray
  25. 25Graeme
  26. 26Philip
  27. 27Brian
  28. 28Alan
  29. 29Ross
  30. 30Graham
  31. 31Brent
  32. 32Geoffrey
  33. 33Colin
  34. 34Barry
  35. 35Martin
  36. 36Dean
  37. 37Neil
  38. 38Russell
  39. 39Trevor
  40. 40Simon
  41. 41Phillip
  42. 42Kenneth
  43. 43Allan
  44. 44Raymond
  45. 45Keith
  46. 46Warren
  47. 47Shane
  48. 48Donald
  49. 49Stuart
  50. 50Tony
  51. 51Timothy
  52. 52Thomas
  53. 53Malcolm
  54. 54Nigel
  55. 55Jeffrey
  56. 56Brett
  57. 57Roger
  58. 58Patrick
  59. 59Kerry
  60. 60Joseph
  61. 61Ronald
  62. 62Gavin
  63. 63Garry
  64. 64Douglas
  65. 65Robin
  66. 66George
  67. 67Gordon
  68. 68Terence
  69. 69Lance
  70. 70Charles
  71. 71Neville
  72. 72Edward
  73. 73Nicholas
  74. 74Daniel
  75. 75Glenn
  76. 76Antony
  77. 77Derek
  78. 78Leslie
  79. 79Matthew
  80. 80Bryan
  81. 81Dennis
  82. 82Jonathan
  83. 83Adrian
  84. 84Lindsay
  85. 85Kelvin
  86. 86Rodney
  87. 87Bernard
  88. 88Carl
  89. 89Eric
  90. 90Darryl
  91. 91Terry
  92. 92Scott
  93. 93Kim
  94. 94Alexander
  95. 95Henry
  96. 96Alistair
  97. 97Arthur
  98. 98Warwick
  99. 99Noel
  100. 100Gerard
Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1961) · Namewise