The US fights communism in Korea. At home, Americans prepare for the inevitable atomic bomb by building fallout shelters. Everyone's watching... television! They love Benny Hill, the Three Stooges, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and, of course, Lucille Ball. Everyone's listening to... rock and roll. Elvis Presley dominates the charts and Marilyn Monroe makes her big screen debut.
Read on to see what people were naming their babies in the 1950s.
Boys
Michael
James
Robert
John
David
William
Richard
Thomas
Mark
Charles
Steven
Gary
Joseph
Donald
Ronald
Kenneth
Paul
Larry
Daniel
Stephen
Girls
Mary
Linda
Patricia
Susan
Deborah
Barbara
Debra
Karen
Nancy
Donna
Cynthia
Sandra
Pamela
Sharon
Kathleen
Carol
Diane
Brenda
Cheryl
Elizabeth
All names are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States at the end of February 1960. The most popular names of the 1950s were taken from a universe that includes 20,495,069 male births and 19,725,574 female births.
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