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Most popular baby names in New Zealand (1968)

The rankings exactly as NZ Department of Internal Affairs published them for 1968. 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, 1968

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

Boys' names

Top 100 in New Zealand, 1968

  1. 1Michael
  2. 2David
  3. 3Andrew
  4. 4Paul
  5. 5Mark
  6. 6Christopher
  7. 7Peter
  8. 8John
  9. 9Richard
  10. 10Stephen
  11. 11Robert
  12. 12Shane
  13. 13Craig
  14. 14Wayne
  15. 15James
  16. 16Dean
  17. 17Grant
  18. 18Steven
  19. 19Jason
  20. 20Anthony
  21. 21Gregory
  22. 22Brent
  23. 23Simon
  24. 24William
  25. 25Ian
  26. 26Kevin
  27. 27Brett
  28. 28Timothy
  29. 29Nigel
  30. 30Tony
  31. 31Philip
  32. 32Matthew
  33. 33Brian
  34. 34Glenn
  35. 35Gary
  36. 36Scott
  37. 37Darren
  38. 38Sean
  39. 39Phillip
  40. 40Nicholas
  41. 41Bruce
  42. 42Alan
  43. 43Stuart
  44. 44Martin
  45. 45Shaun
  46. 46Ross
  47. 47Graeme
  48. 48Aaron
  49. 49Colin
  50. 50Murray
  51. 51Rodney
  52. 52Geoffrey
  53. 53Warren
  54. 54Gavin
  55. 55Patrick
  56. 56Allan
  57. 57Jeffrey
  58. 58Jonathan
  59. 59Trevor
  60. 60Barry
  61. 61Daniel
  62. 62Raymond
  63. 63Glen
  64. 64Thomas
  65. 65Joseph
  66. 66Brendon
  67. 67Adrian
  68. 68Kerry
  69. 69Neil
  70. 70Carl
  71. 71Todd
  72. 72Roger
  73. 73Graham
  74. 74Karl
  75. 75Antony
  76. 76Edward
  77. 77Russell
  78. 78Kelvin
  79. 79Douglas
  80. 80Kenneth
  81. 81Derek
  82. 82Malcolm
  83. 83Hamish
  84. 84Brendan
  85. 85Adam
  86. 86Lance
  87. 87George
  88. 88Blair
  89. 89Donald
  90. 90Darryl
  91. 91Bryan
  92. 92Terry
  93. 93Justin
  94. 94Jeremy
  95. 95Daryl
  96. 96Robin
  97. 97Ronald
  98. 98Dion
  99. 99Samuel
  100. 100Shayne