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Born in 1938

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

Top 100 baby names of 1938

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Barbara
  3. Patricia
  4. Betty
  5. Shirley
  6. Carol
  7. Nancy
  8. Dorothy
  9. Margaret
  10. Joan
  11. Joyce
  12. Judith
  13. Helen
  14. Sandra
  15. Carolyn
  16. Janet
  17. Elizabeth
  18. Beverly
  19. Marilyn
  20. Donna
  21. Ruth
  22. Virginia
  23. Frances
  24. Janice
  25. Doris
Boys
  1. Robert
  2. James
  3. John
  4. William
  5. Richard
  6. Charles
  7. Donald
  8. David
  9. Thomas
  10. Ronald
  11. George
  12. Joseph
  13. Edward
  14. Kenneth
  15. Paul
  16. Larry
  17. Jerry
  18. Frank
  19. Gerald
  20. Raymond
  21. Michael
  22. Gary
  23. Harold
  24. Billy
  25. Jack
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Martha
  2. Jean
  3. Phyllis
  4. Alice
  5. Sharon
  6. Linda
  7. Ann
  8. Lois
  9. Norma
  10. Peggy
  11. Gloria
  12. Marie
  13. Evelyn
  14. Rose
  15. Anna
  16. Judy
  17. Elaine
  18. Dolores
  19. Jane
  20. Geraldine
  21. Carole
  22. Annie
  23. Catherine
  24. Wanda
  25. Karen
  26. Marlene
  27. Mildred
  28. Marjorie
  29. Sally
  30. Patsy
  31. Sylvia
  32. Joanne
  33. Kathleen
  34. Louise
  35. Eleanor
  36. Ruby
  37. Loretta
  38. Arlene
  39. Diane
  40. Bonnie
  41. Rosalie
  42. Sarah
  43. Joann
  44. Jacqueline
  45. Charlotte
  46. Susan
  47. Irene
  48. Roberta
  49. Rita
  50. Delores
  51. Darlene
  52. Gail
  53. Jo
  54. June
  55. Juanita
  56. Kay
  57. Edna
  58. Josephine
  59. Anne
  60. Wilma
  61. Thelma
  62. Audrey
  63. Lillian
  64. Ellen
  65. Florence
  66. Jeanette
  67. Theresa
  68. Lorraine
  69. Ethel
  70. Rosemary
  71. Emma
  72. Pauline
  73. Clara
  74. Anita
  75. Grace
Boys
  1. Walter
  2. Bobby
  3. Joe
  4. Carl
  5. Henry
  6. Roger
  7. Arthur
  8. Eugene
  9. Willie
  10. Ralph
  11. Lawrence
  12. Albert
  13. Fred
  14. Daniel
  15. Wayne
  16. Roy
  17. Howard
  18. Norman
  19. Harry
  20. Jimmy
  21. Anthony
  22. Louis
  23. Peter
  24. Dennis
  25. Earl
  26. Francis
  27. Don
  28. Marvin
  29. Melvin
  30. Ernest
  31. Dale
  32. Leonard
  33. Clarence
  34. Stanley
  35. Douglas
  36. Leroy
  37. Samuel
  38. Johnny
  39. Philip
  40. Gene
  41. Bruce
  42. Bill
  43. Herbert
  44. Alfred
  45. Russell
  46. Frederick
  47. Ray
  48. Allen
  49. Stephen
  50. Bernard
  51. Jimmie
  52. Tommy
  53. Gordon
  54. Eddie
  55. Lee
  56. Jim
  57. Andrew
  58. Glenn
  59. Theodore
  60. Leon
  61. Terry
  62. Martin
  63. Patrick
  64. Clifford
  65. Edwin
  66. Alan
  67. Lloyd
  68. Jerome
  69. Bob
  70. Phillip
  71. Floyd
  72. Clyde
  73. Alvin
  74. Harvey
  75. Franklin
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1938.

Famous people born in 1938

Frank Langella · American actorJanuary 1
Juan Carlos I · King of Spain from 1975 to 2014January 5
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o · Kenyan writerJanuary 5
Adriano Celentano · Italian musician and actorJanuary 6
Donald Knuth · American computer scientist and mathematicianJanuary 10
Anthony Giddens · British sociologistJanuary 18
Vladimir Vysotsky · Soviet singer-songwriter and actorJanuary 25
Etta James · American singerJanuary 25
Islam Karimov · 1st President of the Republic of UzbekistanJanuary 30
Beatrix of the Netherlands · Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 to 2013January 31
Alpha Condé · President of Guinea from 2010 to 2021March 4
Lynn Margulis · American evolutionary biologistMarch 5
David Baltimore · American biologist and Nobel laureateMarch 7
Albert Fert · French physicist, Nobel laureate in physicsMarch 7
Rudolf Nureyev · Soviet ballet dancer and choreographerMarch 17
Kofi Annan · 7th Secretary-General of the United NationsApril 8
Claudia Cardinale · Italian actressApril 15
Jim Simons · American mathematician and hedge fund managerApril 25
Larry Niven · American writerApril 30
Jerry West · American basketball player and executiveMay 28
Joyce Carol Oates · American authorJune 16
Leon Panetta · American politician, Secretary of Defense 2011–2013June 28
Bill Withers · American musicianJuly 4
Brian Dennehy · American actorJuly 9
Paul Verhoeven · Dutch film directorJuly 18
Natalie Wood · American actressJuly 20
Diana Rigg · English actressJuly 20
Leonid Kuchma · Ukrainian businessman and politicianAugust 9
Kenny Rogers · American country singerAugust 21
Paul Martin · Prime minister of Canada from 2003 to 2006August 28
Elliott Gould · American actorAugust 29
Ryōji Noyori · Japanese chemistSeptember 3
Romy Schneider · German-French actressSeptember 23
Ben E. King · American singerSeptember 28
Heinz Fischer · Austrian politician, 8th president of AustriaOctober 9
Farah Pahlavi · Queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979October 14
Christopher Lloyd · American actorOctober 22
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf · 24th president of LiberiaOctober 29
Pat Buchanan · American politician and commentatorNovember 2
Queen Sofía of Spain · Queen consort of Spain from 1975 to 2014November 2
Joe Dassin · French-American musicianNovember 5
Jean Seberg · American actressNovember 13
Robert Nozick · American political philosopherNovember 16
Ted Turner · American media mogulNovember 19
Oscar Robertson · American basketball playerNovember 24
Tom Regan · American philosopherNovember 28
JJ Cale · American musicianDecember 5
Liv Ullmann · Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriterDecember 16
Robert Kahn · American Internet pioneer, computer scientistDecember 23
Jon Voight · American actorDecember 29

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