The swinging sixties. This list feels much more familiar, not because it represents current popular baby names, but because it contains most of the names that we encounter everyday. Here we find all the names of our family members, friends, colleagues and acquaintances.
Here are the Top 100 names from England and Wales in 1964 with their current 2009 rank added for comparison:
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Rank in 1904
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
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Name
DAVID
PAUL
ANDREW
MARK
JOHN
MICHAEL
STEPHEN
IAN
ROBERT
RICHARD
CHRISTOPHER
PETER
SIMON
ANTHONY
KEVIN
GARY
STEVEN
MARTIN
JAMES
PHILIP
ALAN
NEIL
NIGEL
TIMOTHY
COLIN
GRAHAM
JONATHAN
NICHOLAS
WILLIAM
ADRIAN
BRIAN
STUART
KEITH
THOMAS
PATRICK
SEAN
CARL
TREVOR
WAYNE
SHAUN
KENNETH
BARRY
DEREK
DEAN
RAYMOND
ANTONY
JEREMY
JOSEPH
EDWARD
LEE
TERENCE
MATTHEW
DANIEL
GEORGE
RUSSELL
CHARLES
JEFFREY
CLIVE
PHILLIP
CRAIG
ROGER
JULIAN
GEOFFREY
KARL
MALCOLM
DARREN
TONY
ADAM
ROBIN
GARRY
ROY
VINCENT
MOHAMMED
GORDON
DUNCAN
LESLIE
ALEXANDER
GREGORY
GARETH
RONALD
DOUGLAS
FRANCIS
STEWART
GRAEME
GUY
TERRY
MARTYN
ERIC
ALLAN
GERARD
GERALD
HOWARD
JASON
IAIN
GLENN
DENNIS
GAVIN
BRUCE
DONALD
DOMINIC
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Rank in 2009
64
215
129
184
83
51
210
552
91
209
94
133
301
139
184
576
224
257
9
305
193
581
1425
271
627
1425
127
130
8
190
376
558
1099
6
120
132
383
1568
711
231
884
1302
1099
303
535
427
417
14
44
225
904
38
10
11
667
58
884
904
3744
408
1859
315
1649
570
1067
362
461
34
366
3227
1008
196
16
1568
868
2126
22
544
923
848
385
274
2126
4527
454
627
1749
274
904
1358
1568
1649
145
2126
2318
417
904
682
1568
111
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Rank in 1904
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
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Name
SUSAN
JULIE
KAREN
JACQUELINE
DEBORAH
TRACEY
JANE
HELEN
DIANE
SHARON
TRACY
ANGELA
SARAH
ALISON
CAROLINE
AMANDA
SANDRA
LINDA
CATHERINE
ELIZABETH
CAROL
JOANNE
WENDY
JANET
DAWN
CHRISTINE
NICOLA
GILLIAN
SALLY
MARIA
MICHELLE
DEBRA
PAULA
ANNE
LORRAINE
PATRICIA
MARY
DENISE
MARGARET
ANN
BEVERLEY
DONNA
ELAINE
FIONA
JENNIFER
LESLEY
LOUISE
MANDY
TINA
JAYNE
SUZANNE
ANDREA
PAULINE
LISA
CLAIRE
KIM
JULIA
TERESA
HEATHER
KATHRYN
LYNN
RUTH
YVONNE
JUDITH
MELANIE
MARIE
PAMELA
CAROLE
BARBARA
GAIL
LYNNE
CLARE
JANICE
RACHEL
JILL
KATHERINE
KATHLEEN
SHIRLEY
ANNETTE
CAROLYN
ANNA
SARA
VALERIE
CHERYL
JEANETTE
KAY
ANITA
MAXINE
FRANCES
JOANNA
THERESA
DEBBIE
LYNDA
MAUREEN
ROSEMARY
MICHELE
LAURA
REBECCA
SHEILA
STEPHANIE
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Rank in 2009
865
879
982
1668
469
2535
879
576
3031
958
2148
495
79
1022
664
455
594
1004
267
43
2759
771
1526
1467
1752
982
248
5556
556
93
219
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982
821
2535
897
227
1668
469
1022
3031
3031
1526
483
166
2148
201
2535
982
2019
1526
664
3936
417
576
1909
84
1105
438
447
2535
342
2019
1125
701
543
2148
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1171
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2019
1909
140
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169
738
3422
2148
2759
64
99
1325
865
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3422
783
2759
647
321
1909
2148
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2759
621
4564
117
77
2326
238
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The stats:
17% of boys names and 7% of girls names rank in the Top 100 in both 1964 and 2009.
Names that are in the Top 100 for 1964 and are in the Top 500 for 2009 represent 56% for boys and 27% for girls.
Statistics taken from data supplied by the Office for National Statistics.
