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Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1962)

The rankings exactly as NZ Department of Internal Affairs published them for 1962. 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, 1962

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in New Zealand, 1962

  1. 1David
  2. 2Michael
  3. 3Peter
  4. 4John
  5. 5Mark
  6. 6Stephen
  7. 7Paul
  8. 8Andrew
  9. 9Robert
  10. 10Christopher
  11. 11Kevin
  12. 12Richard
  13. 13Anthony
  14. 14Grant
  15. 15Wayne
  16. 16Craig
  17. 17Gregory
  18. 18Ian
  19. 19William
  20. 20Bruce
  21. 21Steven
  22. 22James
  23. 23Gary
  24. 24Graeme
  25. 25Brian
  26. 26Murray
  27. 27Philip
  28. 28Ross
  29. 29Alan
  30. 30Dean
  31. 31Shane
  32. 32Brent
  33. 33Colin
  34. 34Neil
  35. 35Barry
  36. 36Geoffrey
  37. 37Graham
  38. 38Stuart
  39. 39Timothy
  40. 40Martin
  41. 41Simon
  42. 42Nigel
  43. 43Phillip
  44. 44Brett
  45. 45Tony
  46. 46Allan
  47. 47Trevor
  48. 48Warren
  49. 49Kenneth
  50. 50Russell
  51. 51Keith
  52. 52Thomas
  53. 53Raymond
  54. 54Patrick
  55. 55Kerry
  56. 56Glenn
  57. 57Donald
  58. 58Malcolm
  59. 59Jeffrey
  60. 60Roger
  61. 61Douglas
  62. 62Gavin
  63. 63Matthew
  64. 64Nicholas
  65. 65George
  66. 66Ronald
  67. 67Gordon
  68. 68Joseph
  69. 69Charles
  70. 70Scott
  71. 71Garry
  72. 72Edward
  73. 73Bryan
  74. 74Daniel
  75. 75Lance
  76. 76Terry
  77. 77Adrian
  78. 78Neville
  79. 79Darryl
  80. 80Robin
  81. 81Terence
  82. 82Jonathan
  83. 83Derek
  84. 84Dennis
  85. 85Antony
  86. 86Noel
  87. 87Gerard
  88. 88Lindsay
  89. 89Alistair
  90. 90Rodney
  91. 91Eric
  92. 92Carl
  93. 93Kelvin
  94. 94Leslie
  95. 95Ricky
  96. 96Karl
  97. 97Alexander
  98. 98Stewart
  99. 99Kim
  100. 100Henry
Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1962) · Namewise