Born in 1932

The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.

Top 100 baby names of 1932

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Betty
  3. Barbara
  4. Dorothy
  5. Joan
  6. Patricia
  7. Margaret
  8. Helen
  9. Shirley
  10. Doris
  11. Ruth
  12. Joyce
  13. Nancy
  14. Virginia
  15. Jean
  16. Marilyn
  17. Elizabeth
  18. Dolores
  19. Frances
  20. Lois
  21. Alice
  22. Norma
  23. Evelyn
  24. Anna
  25. Gloria
Boys
  1. Robert
  2. James
  3. John
  4. William
  5. Richard
  6. Charles
  7. Donald
  8. George
  9. Joseph
  10. Thomas
  11. Edward
  12. David
  13. Paul
  14. Kenneth
  15. Frank
  16. Ronald
  17. Jack
  18. Harold
  19. Raymond
  20. Billy
  21. Walter
  22. Eugene
  23. Henry
  24. Gerald
  25. Arthur
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Mildred
  2. Martha
  3. Beverly
  4. Donna
  5. Phyllis
  6. Marie
  7. Carol
  8. Rose
  9. Ann
  10. Janet
  11. Louise
  12. Marjorie
  13. Ruby
  14. Catherine
  15. Peggy
  16. Annie
  17. Geraldine
  18. Irene
  19. June
  20. Eleanor
  21. Carolyn
  22. Florence
  23. Lillian
  24. Jane
  25. Edna
  26. Thelma
  27. Wanda
  28. Rita
  29. Gladys
  30. Lorraine
  31. Delores
  32. Josephine
  33. Juanita
  34. Pauline
  35. Theresa
  36. Audrey
  37. Joanne
  38. Lucille
  39. Bonnie
  40. Wilma
  41. Ethel
  42. Sarah
  43. Elaine
  44. Edith
  45. Clara
  46. Bernice
  47. Grace
  48. Marion
  49. Charlotte
  50. Hazel
  51. Emma
  52. Patsy
  53. Marlene
  54. Joann
  55. Arlene
  56. Anne
  57. Esther
  58. Kathleen
  59. Sally
  60. Jacqueline
  61. Marian
  62. Beatrice
  63. Laura
  64. Loretta
  65. Willie
  66. Vivian
  67. Julia
  68. Billie
  69. Janice
  70. Katherine
  71. Sylvia
  72. Elsie
  73. Eva
  74. Constance
  75. Rosemary
Boys
  1. Albert
  2. Ralph
  3. Carl
  4. Joe
  5. Bobby
  6. Willie
  7. Harry
  8. Fred
  9. Jerry
  10. Lawrence
  11. Howard
  12. Norman
  13. Roy
  14. Louis
  15. Clarence
  16. Earl
  17. Daniel
  18. Francis
  19. Herbert
  20. Anthony
  21. Marvin
  22. Ernest
  23. Leonard
  24. Alfred
  25. Roger
  26. Melvin
  27. Stanley
  28. Leroy
  29. Michael
  30. Don
  31. Samuel
  32. Wayne
  33. Bill
  34. Ray
  35. Bernard
  36. Dale
  37. Peter
  38. Russell
  39. Gene
  40. Larry
  41. Franklin
  42. Theodore
  43. Floyd
  44. Andrew
  45. Philip
  46. Lloyd
  47. Edwin
  48. Frederick
  49. Leo
  50. Jimmie
  51. Jimmy
  52. Glenn
  53. Vernon
  54. Bob
  55. Allen
  56. Gordon
  57. Clyde
  58. Leon
  59. Clifford
  60. Douglas
  61. Lee
  62. Alvin
  63. Martin
  64. Herman
  65. Charlie
  66. Eddie
  67. Lewis
  68. Vincent
  69. Elmer
  70. Harvey
  71. Johnny
  72. Gilbert
  73. Bruce
  74. Jesse
  75. Arnold
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1932.

Famous people born in 1932

Carlos Saura · Spanish photographer and film directorJanuary 4
Umberto Eco · Italian semioticianJanuary 5
Dian Fossey · American zoologist, gorilla researcherJanuary 16
Piper Laurie · American actressJanuary 22
François Truffaut · French film directorFebruary 6
Camilo Cienfuegos · Cuban revolutionary fighter and guerillaFebruary 6
John Williams · American composer and conductorFebruary 8
Miloš Forman · Czech American director, screenwriter, and professorFebruary 18
Ted Kennedy · United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1962 to 2009February 22
Johnny Cash · American country singerFebruary 26
Elizabeth Taylor · British-American actressFebruary 27
Miriam Makeba · South African singer and civil rights activistMarch 4
Ryszard Kapuściński · Polish journalist, photographer, poet and authorMarch 4
Momoko Kōchi · Japanese actressMarch 7
Alan Bean · American astronaut and painterMarch 15
John Updike · American novelist, poetMarch 18
Walter Gilbert · American biochemistMarch 21
Debbie Reynolds · American actress, singer, and dancerApril 1
Anthony Perkins · American actorApril 4
Andrei Tarkovsky · Soviet and Russian film directorApril 4
Omar Sharif · Egyptian actorApril 10
Joel Grey · American actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographerApril 11
Fernando Botero · Colombian painter and sculptorApril 19
Casey Kasem · American voice actorApril 27
Anouk Aimée · French actressApril 27
David Scott · American engineerJune 6
Dudley R. Herschbach · American chemistJune 18
Pat Morita · Japanese-American actorJune 28
Donald Rumsfeld · American politician and diplomatJuly 9
John Searle · American philosopherJuly 31
Peter O'Toole · British-Irish actorAugust 2
Frances Allen · American computer scientistAugust 4
V. S. Naipaul · Trinidadian-British writerAugust 17
Luc Montagnier · French virologist and joint recipient of the Nobel Prize of PhysiologyAugust 18
Patsy Cline · American country singerSeptember 8
Algirdas Brazauskas · Lithuanian politicianSeptember 22
Anatoliy Solovianenko · Ukrainian singerSeptember 25
Adolfo Suárez · Prime Minister of SpainSeptember 25
Manmohan Singh · Indian economist, bureaucrat, academician and politicianSeptember 26
Oliver E. Williamson · American economistSeptember 27
Rainer Weiss · American physicistSeptember 29
John G. Thompson · American mathematicianOctober 13
Stephen Covey · American educator, author, businessman and motivational speakerOctober 24
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes · French physicistOctober 24
Robert Mundell · Canadian economistOctober 24
Sylvia Plath · American poet and writerOctober 27
Melvin Schwartz · American experimental physicistNovember 2
François Englert · Belgian theoretical physicistNovember 6
Roy Scheider · American actorNovember 10
Robert Vaughn · American actorNovember 22
Jacques Chirac · President of France from 1995 to 2007November 29
Roh Tae-woo · President of South Korea from 1988 to 1993December 4
Sheldon Glashow · American theoretical physicistDecember 5
Little Richard · American musicianDecember 5
Ellen Burstyn · American actressDecember 7
Nichelle Nichols · American actressDecember 28

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