The most popular baby names in the US generally remain the same from one year to the next, but interesting trends tend to emerge over longer periods of time.
Each year, the Social Security Administration releases the official list of the most popular baby names in the country, based on data from the previous year’s births. We decided to look back at the most popular names 50 years ago to see how parents’ choices of decades past compare to today’s trends.
While some names remain popular today (Michael, William and Elizabeth), others have fallen more into obscurity (shoutout to Tammy, Dawn and Keith).
Without further ado, here are the 50 most popular baby names for boys and girls in 1967 in the US:
Girls’ names:
Lisa
Kimberly
Michelle
Mary
Susan
Karen
Angela
Tammy
Melissa
Jennifer
Patricia
Amy
Elizabeth
Christine
Laura
Julie
Pamela
Cynthia
Donna
Sandra
Tina
Deborah
Kelly
Lori
Stephanie
Linda
Dawn
Teresa
Tracy
Sharon
Brenda
Wendy
Barbara
Denise
Cheryl
Michele
Nancy
Debra
Rebecca
Kathleen
Rhonda
Maria
Theresa
Diane
Paula
Robin
Carol
Andrea
Kim
Jill.
Boys’ names:
Michael
David
James
John
Robert
William
Mark
Richard
Christopher
Brian
Timothy
Thomas
Jeffrey
Steven
Joseph
Scott
Kevin
Paul
Daniel
Charles
Anthony
Kenneth
Eric
Ronald
Gregory
Stephen
Donald
Matthew
Todd
Patrick
Edward
Gary
Douglas
Keith
Andrew
George
Rodney
Larry
Peter
Troy
Jerry
Terry
Dennis
Sean
Frank
Craig
Jeffery
Raymond
Randy
Tony.
This story was originally published on the US version of HuffPost.
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