Baby names of 1967

Lisa and Michael topped the lists in 1967, out of 3,394,836 births recorded across 11,248 different names. That is 2.3% fewer than the 1966 files hold. About 3 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Lisa	52,437
2	Kimberly	33,097
3	Michelle	30,827
4	Mary	25,316
5	Susan	22,262
6	Karen	21,537
7	Angela	19,555
8	Tammy	18,652
9	Melissa	18,377
10	Jennifer	18,236
11	Patricia	17,753
12	Amy	16,122
13	Elizabeth	16,116
14	Christine	15,991
15	Laura	15,819
16	Julie	15,547
17	Pamela	15,368
18	Cynthia	15,340
19	Donna	14,787
20	Sandra	14,738
21	Tina	14,160
22	Deborah	14,012
23	Kelly	13,717
24	Lori	13,564
25	Stephanie	13,354

All 200 girls’ names of 1967 (7,852 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Michael	82,411
2	David	66,806
3	James	61,683
4	John	61,600
5	Robert	56,369
6	William	37,615
7	Mark	34,910
8	Richard	33,585
9	Christopher	29,413
10	Brian	28,646
11	Timothy	28,587
12	Thomas	28,247
13	Jeffrey	28,083
14	Steven	27,031
15	Joseph	25,926
16	Scott	25,535
17	Kevin	24,603
18	Paul	22,821
19	Daniel	22,192
20	Charles	21,288
21	Anthony	20,887
22	Kenneth	19,263
23	Eric	17,830
24	Ronald	16,443
25	Gregory	15,775

All 200 boys’ names of 1967 (4,551 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1966:

Anissa #2,519 → #646 +1,873
Buffy #2,453 → #793 +1,660
Nichelle #2,022 → #500 +1,522
Josette #1,621 → #728 +893
Lissette #1,600 → #738 +862
Sebrina #1,736 → #948 +788
Cami #1,262 → #506 +756
Aretha #1,102 → #483 +619

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 1966:

Alfie #1,963 → #915 +1,048
Waylon #1,540 → #992 +548
Ariel #1,450 → #931 +519
Brendon #1,345 → #915 +430
Terrill #1,259 → #843 +416
Judd #1,345 → #955 +390
Derik #1,237 → #910 +327
Jerrod #1,116 → #793 +323

Ariel is here because the boys’ file records it: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

First recorded in 1967, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1967:

Cinnamon 41
Sivi 27
Malette 20
Joely 20
Carrieann 20
Tineke 18
Milette 17
Tahnee 17
Anessa 17
Nechelle 15

First recorded in 1967, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1967:

Clayt 13
Demetrick 12
Kahlil 12
Taurus 10
Dax 10
Yaron 9
Jerrad 9
Amar 9
Rahim 9
Zoran 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.