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Top 1960s Baby Names

Names from the 1960s Top 100 sound straight from a midcentury TV show. They’re today’s grandparent names, from the decade that saw the peak of Cynthia and Craig, Rhonda and Rodney.

Along with Cynthia and Rodney, other 1960s baby names that remain in the US Top 1000 include Amy, Dennis, Jacqueline, Julie, Keith, Paula, Randy, and Scott. The names that have fallen the farthest in popularity include Rhonda, Debbie, Michele, Cheryl, and Laurie.

These 1960s names might be the names of your parents, both too current and too old-fashioned to be stylish. The top names of the 1960s include the following.

Cait

Meaning: pure

Origin:Short form of Caitlin
2264
Caitriona

Meaning: pure

Origin:Gaelic variation of Catherine
2244
Cat

Meaning: pure

Origin:Diminutive of Catherine
1335
Glenys

Meaning: riverbank, shore; pure

Origin:Welsh
6335
Katelyn

Meaning: pure

Origin:Spelling variation of Caitlin
1222
Kaitlyn

Meaning: pure

Origin:Spelling variation of Caitlin
1507
Karen

Meaning: pure

Origin:Danish variation of Katherine
504
Dalisay

Meaning: pure

Origin:Tagalog
6795
Zaccai

Meaning: pure

Origin:Hebrew
1357
Zaki

Meaning: full of virtue, pure

Origin:Arabic
8388
Katya

Meaning: pure

Origin:Russian, diminutive of Ekatarina, Russian variation of Katherine
1430
Tahira

Meaning: pure and chaste

Origin:Arabic
4167
Sachin

Meaning: pure

Origin:Sanskrit
1031
Katy

Meaning: pure

Origin:Short form of Katherine
5333
Kathy

Meaning: pure

Origin:Diminutive of Katherine and Kathleen
4200
Cathy

Meaning: pure

Origin:Diminutive of Catherine
4285
Kyomi

Meaning: pure and beautiful

Origin:Japanese "pure and beautiful"
871
Katell

Meaning: pure

Origin:Breton variation of Katherine
7575
Katti

Meaning: pure

Origin:Short form of Katherine, Greek
19323
Katarina

Meaning: pure

Origin:Slovak variation of Katherine
1316