Baby names of 1964

Lisa and Michael topped the lists in 1964, out of 3,887,553 births recorded across 11,214 different names. That is 1.8% fewer than the 1963 files hold. About 3.3 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Lisa	54,270
2	Mary	40,985
3	Susan	31,515
4	Karen	30,243
5	Patricia	26,091
6	Kimberly	24,128
7	Donna	23,808
8	Linda	23,629
9	Cynthia	20,321
10	Tammy	20,043
11	Pamela	19,823
12	Deborah	19,306
13	Sandra	19,249
14	Laura	18,967
15	Lori	18,624
16	Elizabeth	17,294
17	Julie	17,283
18	Brenda	17,106
19	Barbara	16,481
20	Sharon	16,449
21	Teresa	16,420
22	Angela	16,256
23	Michelle	16,180
24	Debra	15,329
25	Denise	14,726

All 200 girls’ names of 1964 (7,806 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Michael	82,617
2	John	82,508
3	David	75,043
4	James	73,026
5	Robert	69,980
6	Mark	45,261
7	William	44,224
8	Richard	40,098
9	Thomas	34,463
10	Jeffrey	30,728
11	Joseph	30,576
12	Steven	29,707
13	Kevin	29,357
14	Scott	28,506
15	Timothy	28,090
16	Paul	26,874
17	Charles	25,908
18	Kenneth	24,850
19	Daniel	24,342
20	Brian	24,167
21	Anthony	20,126
22	Gregory	19,884
23	Christopher	19,627
24	Ronald	18,844
25	Donald	18,045

All 200 boys’ names of 1964 (4,594 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1963:

Anjanette #5,891 → #904 +4,987
Deneen #2,619 → #216 +2,403
Denine #3,066 → #904 +2,162
Daneen #2,211 → #908 +1,303
Kecia #1,754 → #617 +1,137
Tessa #1,754 → #876 +878
Samantha #1,305 → #474 +831
Mia #1,047 → #571 +476

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 1963:

Deron #1,548 → #684 +864
Cassius #1,513 → #860 +653
Kipp #1,215 → #823 +392
Fitzgerald #1,052 → #689 +363
Adrain #1,279 → #945 +334
King #1,195 → #867 +328
Marcellus #1,238 → #921 +317
Daryle #1,228 → #945 +283

First recorded in 1964, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1964:

Djuna 198
Diahn 24
Deneene 24
Deneane 24
Dhana 23
Rotunda 18
Kesia 17
Anjeanette 17
Danean 14
Kesha 14

First recorded in 1964, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1964:

Janssen 16
Lydon 14
Ringo 11
Khristopher 10
Hud 9
Suresh 9
Klark 8
Kareem 8
Jeanmarc 8
Derren 8

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.