Baby names of 1958

Mary and Michael topped the lists in 1958, out of 4,134,028 births recorded across 10,392 different names. That is 1.6% fewer than the 1957 files hold. About 3.2 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Mary	55,848
2	Susan	45,175
3	Linda	41,904
4	Karen	38,487
5	Patricia	37,961
6	Debra	35,521
7	Deborah	32,943
8	Cynthia	31,014
9	Barbara	27,874
10	Donna	26,959
11	Pamela	25,279
12	Nancy	24,819
13	Cheryl	24,119
14	Kathy	23,938
15	Sandra	21,834
16	Brenda	21,337
17	Sharon	21,114
18	Diane	20,811
19	Lisa	20,202
20	Carol	19,683
21	Kathleen	19,205
22	Elizabeth	18,535
23	Julie	18,215
24	Debbie	17,860
25	Cindy	16,585

All 200 girls’ names of 1958 (7,030 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Michael	90,604
2	David	82,681
3	James	78,774
4	Robert	77,338
5	John	76,057
6	William	54,254
7	Mark	52,698
8	Richard	50,007
9	Thomas	42,088
10	Steven	32,968
11	Charles	32,242
12	Joseph	30,115
13	Timothy	28,797
14	Kenneth	26,684
15	Paul	26,264
16	Daniel	25,619
17	Gary	25,287
18	Donald	25,015
19	Ronald	24,824
20	Kevin	24,666
21	Jeffrey	24,223
22	Larry	20,083
23	Gregory	19,810
24	Brian	19,279
25	Scott	19,175

All 200 boys’ names of 1958 (4,502 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1957:

Brigitte #1,904 → #771 +1,133
Samantha #1,754 → #994 +760
Selena #1,388 → #679 +709
Tambra #1,588 → #916 +672
Bridgette #1,274 → #704 +570
Perri #1,507 → #947 +560
Alyson #1,550 → #994 +556
Gigi #1,358 → #925 +433

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 1957:

Wayde #1,364 → #622 +742
Maverick #1,364 → #796 +568
Darren #897 → #381 +516
Tobin #1,250 → #815 +435
Dion #928 → #522 +406
Gavin #1,278 → #892 +386
Bret #556 → #187 +369
Aron #1,075 → #721 +354

First recorded in 1958, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1958:

Tamre 64
Miyoshi 20
Tequila 20
Karil 19
Dollinda 18
Tamalyn 17
Tamla 15
Kelcey 14
Bridgitte 11
Elayna 10

First recorded in 1958, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1958:

Hoby 30
Vint 22
Ryne 21
Osher 12
Bretton 11
Attila 10
Darran 9
Paal 9
Robeert 9
Ari 9

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration national baby-name files. Names given to fewer than five babies in a year are not published, so the totals here run below the true number of births. How far below is not the same in every year: the files hold 201,484 births for 1880 and 3,315,343 for 2025, so a change from one year to the next in the early decades is partly a change in what the record covers.