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Born in 1940

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

Top 100 baby names of 1940

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Barbara
  3. Patricia
  4. Judith
  5. Betty
  6. Carol
  7. Nancy
  8. Linda
  9. Shirley
  10. Sandra
  11. Margaret
  12. Dorothy
  13. Joyce
  14. Joan
  15. Carolyn
  16. Judy
  17. Sharon
  18. Helen
  19. Janet
  20. Elizabeth
  21. Virginia
  22. Janice
  23. Donna
  24. Ruth
  25. Marilyn
Boys
  1. James
  2. Robert
  3. John
  4. William
  5. Richard
  6. Charles
  7. David
  8. Thomas
  9. Donald
  10. Ronald
  11. George
  12. Joseph
  13. Larry
  14. Jerry
  15. Kenneth
  16. Edward
  17. Paul
  18. Michael
  19. Gary
  20. Frank
  21. Gerald
  22. Raymond
  23. Harold
  24. Dennis
  25. Walter
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Martha
  2. Beverly
  3. Frances
  4. Jean
  5. Gloria
  6. Doris
  7. Alice
  8. Phyllis
  9. Karen
  10. Ann
  11. Susan
  12. Peggy
  13. Lois
  14. Bonnie
  15. Kathleen
  16. Marie
  17. Brenda
  18. Norma
  19. Rose
  20. Diane
  21. Geraldine
  22. Jane
  23. Evelyn
  24. Carole
  25. Elaine
  26. Anna
  27. Wanda
  28. Catherine
  29. Joanne
  30. Charlotte
  31. Annie
  32. Patsy
  33. Mildred
  34. Louise
  35. Sarah
  36. Sally
  37. Sylvia
  38. Joann
  39. Marjorie
  40. Gail
  41. Ruby
  42. Dolores
  43. Eleanor
  44. Loretta
  45. Rita
  46. Roberta
  47. Jo
  48. Irene
  49. Ellen
  50. Arlene
  51. Jacqueline
  52. Kay
  53. Juanita
  54. Darlene
  55. Marlene
  56. Sue
  57. June
  58. Delores
  59. Anne
  60. Rosemary
  61. Edna
  62. Anita
  63. Connie
  64. Josephine
  65. Jeanette
  66. Katherine
  67. Julia
  68. Wilma
  69. Emma
  70. Lorraine
  71. Rebecca
  72. Lillian
  73. Edith
  74. Audrey
  75. Florence
Boys
  1. Roger
  2. Billy
  3. Joe
  4. Jack
  5. Bobby
  6. Henry
  7. Carl
  8. Arthur
  9. Daniel
  10. Willie
  11. Lawrence
  12. Ralph
  13. Eugene
  14. Wayne
  15. Fred
  16. Albert
  17. Roy
  18. Peter
  19. Jimmy
  20. Howard
  21. Anthony
  22. Harry
  23. Norman
  24. Stephen
  25. Louis
  26. Johnny
  27. Earl
  28. Melvin
  29. Leonard
  30. Bruce
  31. Douglas
  32. Dale
  33. Ernest
  34. Stanley
  35. Philip
  36. Francis
  37. Don
  38. Marvin
  39. Clarence
  40. Samuel
  41. Leroy
  42. Bill
  43. Frederick
  44. Alfred
  45. Gene
  46. Allen
  47. Russell
  48. Terry
  49. Patrick
  50. Herbert
  51. Tommy
  52. Ray
  53. Jim
  54. Phillip
  55. Lee
  56. Eddie
  57. Bernard
  58. Glenn
  59. Andrew
  60. Martin
  61. Jimmie
  62. Franklin
  63. Alan
  64. Leon
  65. Theodore
  66. Gordon
  67. Tom
  68. Jesse
  69. Clifford
  70. Jerome
  71. Edwin
  72. Curtis
  73. Harvey
  74. Bob
  75. Lloyd
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1940.

Famous people born in 1940

Gao Xingjian · Chinese novelist and playwrightJanuary 4
Brian Josephson · Welsh physicistJanuary 4
Jack Nicklaus · American golferJanuary 21
John Hurt · British actorJanuary 22
Joachim Gauck · German Protestant pastor and politicianJanuary 24
James Cromwell · American actorJanuary 27
Carlos Slim · Mexican business magnate and investorJanuary 28
George A. Romero · Canadian-American filmmakerFebruary 4
Toshihide Maskawa · Japanese theoretical physicistFebruary 7
Tony Tan · 7th President of SingaporeFebruary 7
J. M. Coetzee · South African and Australian writer and scholarFebruary 9
Saparmurat Niyazov · President of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2006February 19
Smokey Robinson · American R&B singer, songwriter and producerFebruary 19
Peter Fonda · American actor and filmmakerFebruary 23
Mario Andretti · Italian-American racing driverFebruary 28
Bartholomew I of Constantinople · Ecumenist ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople since 1991February 29
Chuck Norris · American martial artist and action actorMarch 10
Al Jarreau · American jazz and pop singerMarch 12
Solomon Burke · American singerMarch 21
Haing S. Ngor · Cambodian-American physician and actorMarch 22
Nancy Pelosi · American politicianMarch 26
James Caan · American actorMarch 26
Patrick Leahy · American politician and lawyerMarch 31
Wangarĩ Maathai · Kenyan environmentalist and politicianApril 1
John Havlicek · American basketball playerApril 8
Herbie Hancock · American jazz pianist and composerApril 12
J. M. G. Le Clézio · French writer and Nobel Prize winnerApril 13
Margrethe II · Queen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024April 16
Joseph L. Goldstein · American biochemistApril 18
Sue Grafton · American writer from KentuckyApril 24
Al Pacino · American actorApril 25
Burt Young · American actorApril 30
David Koch · American billionaire heir and businessmanMay 3
Ricky Nelson · American musician and actorMay 8
James L. Brooks · American director, writer, and producerMay 9
Alan Kay · American computer scientistMay 17
Leonard Susskind · American physicistMay 20
Joseph Brodsky · Russian-American poetMay 24
Kip Thorne · American physicistJune 1
René Auberjonois · American actorJune 1
Constantine II of Greece · King of Greece from 1964 to 1973June 2
Tom Jones · Welsh singerJune 7
Nancy Sinatra · American singer and actressJune 8
George Akerlof · American economist and Koshland Professor of EconomicsJune 17
John Mahoney · American actorJune 20
Abbas Kiarostami · Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producerJune 22
Wilma Rudolph · American athleteJune 23
Muhammad Yunus · Bangladeshi bankerJune 28
Jerzy Buzek · Prime Minister of PolandJuly 3
Nursultan Nazarbayev · President of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019July 6
Ringo Starr · British musician, drummer for the BeatlesJuly 7
Patrick Stewart · British actorJuly 13
James Brolin · American actorJuly 18
Peter Mutharika · President of MalawiJuly 18
Pina Bausch · German dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet directorJuly 27
Martin Sheen · American actorAugust 3
Dennis Tito · American businessmanAugust 8
Thomas A. Steitz · American biochemistAugust 23
Annie Ernaux · French writerSeptember 1
Eduardo Galeano · Uruguayan writer and journalistSeptember 3
Raquel Welch · American actressSeptember 5
Brian De Palma · American film director and screenwriterSeptember 11
Joachim Frank · German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureateSeptember 12
Tarō Asō · Prime Minister of Japan from 2008 to 2009September 20
Burhanuddin Rabbani · Afghanistan politician, former President of AfghanistanSeptember 20
Anna Karina · Danish-French actressSeptember 22
Michel Temer · 24th Vice-President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 and 37th PresidentSeptember 23
Milena Dravić · Serbian actressOctober 5
John Lennon · British musicianOctober 9
Michael Gambon · Irish and English actorOctober 19
Pelé · Brazilian footballerOctober 23
John Gotti · American crime bossOctober 27
Saul Kripke · American philosopher and logicianNovember 13
Sam Waterston · American actor, producer and directorNovember 15
Qaboos bin Said · Sultan of Oman from 1970 to 2020November 18
Terry Gilliam · American born-British filmmaker, comedian, and actorNovember 22
Bruce Lee · Hong Kong–American martial artist and actorNovember 27
Richard Pryor · American comedian and actorDecember 1
Dionne Warwick · American singerDecember 12
Frank Zappa · American musicianDecember 21
Mamnoon Hussain · 12th president of Pakistan from 2013 to 2018December 23
Anthony Fauci · 5th Director of the National Institute of Allergy and InfectiousDecember 24
Edward C. Prescott · American economistDecember 26
Teruki Miyamoto · Japanese association football playerDecember 26

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