John F. Kennedy is elected to Camelot and a nation later grieves his assasination. Martin Luther King, Jr. inspires the Civil Rights Movement. We put a man on the moon. Everyone is listening to The Beatles and the Grateful Dead. They're watching "The Monkees" and "Laugh In." The Vietnam War escalates and students protest. In the world of baby names, this is a big decade. For the first time in the 20th century, the name Mary is knocked off her perch as the #1 name for girls, displaced by Lisa, a name that wasn't even in the top 20 in the 1950s.
Read on to see what people were naming their babies in the 1960s.
Boys
Michael
David
John
James
Robert
Mark
William
Richard
Thomas
Jeffrey
Steven
Joseph
Timothy
Kevin
Scott
Brian
Charles
Daniel
Paul
Christopher
Girls
Lisa
Mary
Karen
Susan
Kimberly
Patricia
Linda
Donna
Michelle
Cynthia
Sandra
Deborah
Pamela
Tammy
Laura
Lori
Elizabeth
Julie
Jennifer
Brenda
All names are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States at the end of February 1970. The most popular names of the 1960s were taken from a universe that includes 19,606,690 male births and 18,895,027 female births.
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