60s Name Generator

In the United States, Lisa was the number one girls' name from 1962 through 1969, with Mary, Susan, Karen, Kimberly, Patricia, Linda, Donna, Michelle and Cynthia rounding out the top ten. For boys it was Michael, David, John, James, Robert, Mark, William, Richard, Thomas and Jeffrey. In Britain, Susan, Julie, Karen, Jacqueline, Deborah, David, Paul, Stephen, Mark and Andrew led the charts.

Names that peaked in the decade and faded afterward are the strongest signals: Tammy, Lori, Rhonda, Sherry, Dawn, Robin, Tracy and Kim for girls; Todd, Scott, Randy, Darryl, Dwayne, Keith, Craig and Ricky for boys. Adult names like Gary, Larry, Dennis, Judy, Carol and Peggy also place a scene firmly in the sixties.

Yes. Full names like Peggy Sue Kincaid or Dwight Nussbaum work as character names for novels, screenplays, tabletop campaigns or personas for a Mad Men-style cocktail party, and the list mixes Anglo, Irish, Italian, Polish, German, Jewish, Hispanic, Black American and Asian American surnames to match the real demographics of the decade.

The 1960s were the decade of Beatlemania, Carnaby Street and the mod scene, so many people looking for sixties names want a swinging-London feel. The British entries use first names that were common among people born in the 1940s, paired with distinctly English surnames such as Pickersgill, Hargreaves and Tattersall.