You'll find the top 100 baby names for 1940 below.
Top 100 Baby Names for 1940 |
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| Rank | Male name | Female name |
| 1 | James | Mary |
| 2 | Robert | Barbara |
| 3 | John | Patricia |
| 4 | William | Judith |
| 5 | Richard | Betty |
| 6 | Charles | Carol |
| 7 | David | Nancy |
| 8 | Thomas | Linda |
| 9 | Donald | Shirley |
| 10 | Ronald | Sandra |
| 11 | George | Margaret |
| 12 | Joseph | Dorothy |
| 13 | Larry | Joyce |
| 14 | Jerry | Joan |
| 15 | Kenneth | Carolyn |
| 16 | Edward | Judy |
| 17 | Paul | Sharon |
| 18 | Michael | Helen |
| 19 | Gary | Janet |
| 20 | Frank | Elizabeth |
| 21 | Gerald | Virginia |
| 22 | Raymond | Janice |
| 23 | Harold | Donna |
| 24 | Dennis | Ruth |
| 25 | Walter | Marilyn |
| 26 | Roger | Martha |
| 27 | Billy | Beverly |
| 28 | Joe | Frances |
| 29 | Jack | Jean |
| 30 | Bobby | Gloria |
| 31 | Henry | Doris |
| 32 | Carl | Alice |
| 33 | Arthur | Phyllis |
| 34 | Daniel | Karen |
| 35 | Willie | Ann |
| 36 | Lawrence | Susan |
| 37 | Ralph | Peggy |
| 38 | Eugene | Lois |
| 39 | Wayne | Bonnie |
| 40 | Fred | Kathleen |
| 41 | Albert | Marie |
| 42 | Roy | Brenda |
| 43 | Peter | Norma |
| 44 | Jimmy | Rose |
| 45 | Howard | Diane |
| 46 | Anthony | Geraldine |
| 47 | Harry | Jane |
| 48 | Norman | Evelyn |
| 49 | Stephen | Elaine |
| 50 | Louis | Carole |
| 51 | Johnny | Wanda |
| 52 | Earl | Anna |
| 53 | Melvin | Catherine |
| 54 | Leonard | Joanne |
| 55 | Bruce | Charlotte |
| 56 | Douglas | Annie |
| 57 | Ernest | Patsy |
| 58 | Dale | Mildred |
| 59 | Stanley | Louise |
| 60 | Philip | Sarah |
| 61 | Francis | Sally |
| 62 | Don | Sylvia |
| 63 | Marvin | Joann |
| 64 | Clarence | Marjorie |
| 65 | Samuel | Gail |
| 66 | Leroy | Ruby |
| 67 | Bill | Dolores |
| 68 | Frederick | Eleanor |
| 69 | Alfred | Loretta |
| 70 | Gene | Rita |
| 71 | Allen | Jo |
| 72 | Russell | Roberta |
| 73 | Terry | Irene |
| 74 | Patrick | Ellen |
| 75 | Herbert | Arlene |
| 76 | Tommy | Jacqueline |
| 77 | Ray | Kay |
| 78 | Jim | Juanita |
| 79 | Lee | Marlene |
| 80 | Phillip | Darlene |
| 81 | Eddie | Sue |
| 82 | Bernard | June |
| 83 | Glenn | Delores |
| 84 | Andrew | Anne |
| 85 | Martin | Rosemary |
| 86 | Jimmie | Edna |
| 87 | Franklin | Anita |
| 88 | Alan | Connie |
| 89 | Leon | Josephine |
| 90 | Theodore | Jeanette |
| 91 | Gordon | Katherine |
| 92 | Tom | Julia |
| 93 | Jesse | Wilma |
| 94 | Clifford | Emma |
| 95 | Jerome | Lorraine |
| 96 | Edwin | Rebecca |
| 97 | Curtis | Lillian |
| 98 | Bob | Edith |
| 99 | Harvey | Audrey |
| 100 | Lloyd | Florence |
| Note: Rank 1 is the most popular, rank 2 is the next most popular, and so forth. | ||