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Born in 1942

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

Top 100 baby names of 1942

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Barbara
  3. Patricia
  4. Linda
  5. Carol
  6. Sandra
  7. Judith
  8. Nancy
  9. Betty
  10. Carolyn
  11. Sharon
  12. Shirley
  13. Joyce
  14. Margaret
  15. Judy
  16. Karen
  17. Dorothy
  18. Joan
  19. Janet
  20. Donna
  21. Susan
  22. Elizabeth
  23. Virginia
  24. Kathleen
  25. Janice
Boys
  1. James
  2. Robert
  3. John
  4. William
  5. Richard
  6. David
  7. Charles
  8. Thomas
  9. Ronald
  10. Donald
  11. Joseph
  12. Larry
  13. Michael
  14. George
  15. Kenneth
  16. Jerry
  17. Edward
  18. Gary
  19. Paul
  20. Dennis
  21. Frank
  22. Gerald
  23. Douglas
  24. Raymond
  25. Roger
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Helen
  2. Marilyn
  3. Diane
  4. Martha
  5. Frances
  6. Gloria
  7. Beverly
  8. Ruth
  9. Bonnie
  10. Carole
  11. Jean
  12. Phyllis
  13. Ann
  14. Alice
  15. Brenda
  16. Doris
  17. Peggy
  18. Marie
  19. Lois
  20. Elaine
  21. Jane
  22. Geraldine
  23. Joanne
  24. Catherine
  25. Rose
  26. Charlotte
  27. Norma
  28. Evelyn
  29. Wanda
  30. Rita
  31. Sally
  32. Patsy
  33. Joann
  34. Anna
  35. Gail
  36. Louise
  37. Annie
  38. Dolores
  39. Ellen
  40. Jo
  41. Roberta
  42. Sarah
  43. Diana
  44. Jacqueline
  45. Connie
  46. Mildred
  47. Sylvia
  48. Sue
  49. Marjorie
  50. Kay
  51. Anne
  52. Ruby
  53. Darlene
  54. Loretta
  55. Irene
  56. Katherine
  57. Kathryn
  58. Arlene
  59. Marlene
  60. Rebecca
  61. Delores
  62. Eleanor
  63. Eileen
  64. Glenda
  65. Juanita
  66. Lorraine
  67. Rosemary
  68. Anita
  69. Sheila
  70. Julia
  71. Christine
  72. Maria
  73. Theresa
  74. Edna
  75. Josephine
Boys
  1. Walter
  2. Harold
  3. Daniel
  4. Arthur
  5. Lawrence
  6. Henry
  7. Stephen
  8. Joe
  9. Jack
  10. Billy
  11. Carl
  12. Willie
  13. Ralph
  14. Peter
  15. Albert
  16. Wayne
  17. Roy
  18. Bobby
  19. Anthony
  20. Eugene
  21. Fred
  22. Jimmy
  23. Harry
  24. Howard
  25. Bruce
  26. Louis
  27. Terry
  28. Norman
  29. Philip
  30. Johnny
  31. Stanley
  32. Leonard
  33. Francis
  34. Samuel
  35. Melvin
  36. Ernest
  37. Earl
  38. Dale
  39. Patrick
  40. Bill
  41. Marvin
  42. Clarence
  43. Frederick
  44. Leroy
  45. Russell
  46. Allen
  47. Don
  48. Tommy
  49. Jim
  50. Steven
  51. Alfred
  52. Phillip
  53. Ronnie
  54. Barry
  55. Andrew
  56. Alan
  57. Gene
  58. Herbert
  59. Ray
  60. Martin
  61. Eddie
  62. Lee
  63. Glenn
  64. Tom
  65. Bernard
  66. Theodore
  67. Gordon
  68. Leon
  69. Jimmie
  70. Clifford
  71. Lloyd
  72. Warren
  73. Curtis
  74. Jesse
  75. Victor
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1942.

Famous people born in 1942

Alassane Ouattara · President of Ivory Coast since 2010January 1
László Sólyom · Politician and former President of HungaryJanuary 3
Stephen Hawking · British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and authorJanuary 8
Junichiro Koizumi · Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006January 8
Michel Mayor · Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of PhysicsJanuary 12
Muhammad Ali · American boxerJanuary 17
Eusébio · Portuguese footballerJanuary 25
Carole King · American singer-songwriter and musicianFebruary 9
Ehud Barak · 10th Prime Minister of IsraelFebruary 12
Michael Bloomberg · American businessman and politicianFebruary 14
Mitch McConnell · American politician and lawyerFebruary 20
Joe Lieberman · American politicianFebruary 24
Robert H. Grubbs · Nobel prize winning American chemistFebruary 27
Dino Zoff · Italian association football player and managerFebruary 28
John Irving · American novelist and screenwriterMarch 2
Felipe González · Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996March 5
Scatman John · American musicianMarch 13
Michael Haneke · Austrian film director and screenwriterMarch 23
Aretha Franklin · American singer, songwriter, and pianistMarch 25
Erica Jong · American novelist, poet, memoirist, criticMarch 26
Daniel Dennett · American philosopherMarch 28
Marsha Mason · American actressApril 3
Barry Levinson · American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producerApril 6
Jacob Zuma · 4th President of South AfricaApril 12
Sandra Dee · American actress and modelApril 23
Barbra Streisand · American singer and actressApril 24
Jacques Rogge · President of the International Olympic Committee from 2001 to 2013May 2
Fraser Stoddart · Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the designMay 24
Stanley B. Prusiner · American neurologist and biochemistMay 28
Curtis Mayfield · American singer-songwriterJune 3
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo · Equatoguinean politician, President of Equatorial Guinea since 1979June 5
Bert Sakmann · German biologist and physicianJune 12
Mohamed ElBaradei · Egyptian law scholar and diplomatJune 17
Roger Ebert · American film critic and authorJune 18
Paul McCartney · English musician and member of the BeatlesJune 18
Thabo Mbeki · President of South Africa from 1999 to 2008June 18
Brian Wilson · American musician, singer, songwriter and record producerJune 20
Vicente Fox · 62th president of MexicoJuly 2
Ronnie James Dio · American heavy metal singerJuly 10
Harrison Ford · American actorJuly 13
Jerry Garcia · American guitarist and singerAugust 1
Isabel Allende · Chilean writerAugust 2
Tobin Bell · American actorAugust 7
Fred Thompson · American politician and actorAugust 19
Isaac Hayes · American musician and actorAugust 20
Karen Uhlenbeck · American mathematicianAugust 24
José Eduardo dos Santos · President of Angola from 1979 to 2017August 28
Werner Herzog · German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera directorSeptember 5
Wen Jiabao · 6th Premier of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2013September 15
Emmerson Mnangagwa · President of the Republic of ZimbabweSeptember 15
Wolfgang Schäuble · German politician and statesmanSeptember 18
Ian McShane · English actorSeptember 29
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir · Icelandic politicianOctober 4
Amitabh Bachchan · Indian film actorOctober 11
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard · German biologistOctober 20
Christopher A. Sims · American econometrician and macroeconomistOctober 21
Michael Crichton · American author, screenwriter, film directorOctober 23
Bob Hoskins · English actorOctober 26
Bob Ross · American painterOctober 29
David Ogden Stiers · American actorOctober 31
Larry Flynt · American publisherNovember 1
Marcia Wallace · American actress and comedianNovember 1
Robert F. Engle · American economist and Nobel laureateNovember 10
Martin Scorsese · American filmmakerNovember 17
Calvin Klein · American fashion designerNovember 19
Joe Biden · 46th President of the United StatesNovember 20
Bob Einstein · American comedian, actorNovember 20
Billy Connolly · Scottish actor and comedianNovember 24
Jimi Hendrix · American guitaristNovember 27
John Clauser · American physicistDecember 1
Peter Handke · Austrian writer, playwright and film directorDecember 6
Aritatsu Ogi · Japanese association football playerDecember 10
Muhammadu Buhari · Former President of Nigeria from 1983 to 1985 and 2015 to 2025December 17
Hu Jintao · Former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist PartyDecember 21
Fred Ward · American actorDecember 30

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