Baby names of 1969

Lisa and Michael topped the lists in 1969, out of 3,475,190 births recorded across 12,473 different names. That is 2.9% more than the 1968 files hold. About 3.1 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Lisa	45,028
2	Michelle	34,319
3	Jennifer	33,705
4	Kimberly	33,077
5	Melissa	23,018
6	Amy	21,464
7	Angela	21,060
8	Mary	19,850
9	Tammy	19,053
10	Laura	17,922
11	Susan	17,806
12	Julie	17,739
13	Karen	17,633
14	Christine	16,752
15	Kelly	16,328
16	Elizabeth	15,297
17	Tracy	15,108
18	Patricia	14,959
19	Stephanie	14,488
20	Lori	14,020
21	Dawn	13,768
22	Tina	13,606
23	Cynthia	13,516
24	Pamela	13,355
25	Sandra	12,185

All 200 girls’ names of 1969 (8,708 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Michael	85,162
2	David	63,672
3	James	59,886
4	John	58,732
5	Robert	58,300
6	William	37,607
7	Christopher	35,672
8	Mark	33,388
9	Brian	31,669
10	Richard	31,085
11	Jeffrey	28,967
12	Scott	28,653
13	Thomas	27,465
14	Steven	26,532
15	Joseph	26,173
16	Kevin	23,557
17	Timothy	23,358
18	Daniel	23,165
19	Charles	21,658
20	Anthony	20,904
21	Eric	20,747
22	Paul	20,690
23	Kenneth	17,553
24	Matthew	17,462
25	Jason	16,488

All 200 boys’ names of 1969 (5,043 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1968:

Shani #2,126 → #664 +1,462
Julissa #2,164 → #961 +1,203
Chelsea #1,834 → #701 +1,133
Latasha #1,519 → #852 +667
Britt #1,519 → #970 +549
Sharonda #1,435 → #955 +480
Chanda #1,177 → #698 +479
Cinnamon #1,118 → #698 +420

Britt is here because the girls’ 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.

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 1968:

Dedric #2,735 → #1,000 +1,735
Jameson #1,731 → #951 +780
Torrey #1,393 → #804 +589
Jamison #1,258 → #709 +549
Jemal #1,083 → #549 +534
Donavan #1,314 → #804 +510
Brion #1,366 → #903 +463
Jasen #1,428 → #965 +463

First recorded in 1969, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1969:

Omayra 42
Cinamon 26
Barbarella 17
Dameron 15
Lashondra 15
Chelsa 15
Joeli 15
Catrece 14
Omaira 14
Monifa 13

Dameron is here because the girls’ 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 1969, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1969:

Tige 28
Aldrin 22
Jermal 19
Aristede 17
Ameer 14
Jeremey 13
Jeremie 13
Jahmal 12
Bradely 11
Jasson 11

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.