Most popular US names of the 1940s
The 100 most given girl names, boy names and gender-neutral names across 1940–1949, by total births over the decade. Source: US Social Security Administration.
♀ Girls
- Mary
- Linda
- Barbara
- Patricia
- Carol
- Sandra
- Nancy
- Sharon
- Judith
- Susan
- Betty
- Carolyn
- Margaret
- Shirley
- Judy
- Karen
- Donna
- Kathleen
- Joyce
- Dorothy
- Janet
- Diane
- Janice
- Joan
- Elizabeth
- Brenda
- Gloria
- Virginia
- Marilyn
- Martha
- Beverly
- Helen
- Bonnie
- Ruth
- Frances
- Jean
- Ann
- Phyllis
- Pamela
- Jane
- Alice
- Peggy
- Cheryl
- Doris
- Catherine
- Elaine
- Cynthia
- Marie
- Lois
- Connie
- Christine
- Diana
- Gail
- Joanne
- Rose
- Wanda
- Carole
- Rita
- Charlotte
- Jo
- Evelyn
- Geraldine
- Jacqueline
- Ellen
- Sally
- Rebecca
- Kathryn
- Deborah
- Norma
- Suzanne
- Anna
- Sue
- Darlene
- Patsy
- Joann
- Sarah
- Katherine
- Paula
- Annie
- Louise
- Roberta
- Sylvia
- Anne
- Theresa
- Sheila
- Maria
- Laura
- Kathy
- Eileen
- Marcia
- Rosemary
- Glenda
- Dolores
- Mildred
- Lorraine
- Marjorie
- Sherry
- Kay
- Anita
- Dianne
♂ Boys
- James
- Robert
- John
- William
- Richard
- David
- Charles
- Thomas
- Michael
- Ronald
- Larry
- Donald
- Joseph
- Gary
- George
- Kenneth
- Paul
- Edward
- Jerry
- Dennis
- Frank
- Daniel
- Raymond
- Roger
- Stephen
- Gerald
- Walter
- Harold
- Steven
- Douglas
- Lawrence
- Terry
- Wayne
- Arthur
- Jack
- Carl
- Henry
- Willie
- Bruce
- Joe
- Peter
- Billy
- Roy
- Ralph
- Anthony
- Jimmy
- Albert
- Bobby
- Eugene
- Johnny
- Fred
- Harry
- Howard
- Mark
- Alan
- Louis
- Philip
- Patrick
- Dale
- Danny
- Stanley
- Leonard
- Timothy
- Gregory
- Samuel
- Ronnie
- Norman
- Ernest
- Russell
- Francis
- Melvin
- Earl
- Frederick
- Allen
- Bill
- Tommy
- Phillip
- Marvin
- Steve
- Don
- Clarence
- Barry
- Glenn
- Jim
- Eddie
- Mike
- Andrew
- Jeffrey
- Leroy
- Alfred
- Martin
- Lee
- Tom
- Ray
- Herbert
- Gene
- Bernard
- Theodore
- Curtis
- Keith