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Born in 1946

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

Top 100 baby names of 1946

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Linda
  3. Patricia
  4. Barbara
  5. Carol
  6. Sandra
  7. Nancy
  8. Susan
  9. Sharon
  10. Judith
  11. Judy
  12. Carolyn
  13. Donna
  14. Betty
  15. Karen
  16. Kathleen
  17. Margaret
  18. Shirley
  19. Diane
  20. Joyce
  21. Janet
  22. Janice
  23. Dorothy
  24. Brenda
  25. Elizabeth
Boys
  1. James
  2. Robert
  3. John
  4. William
  5. Richard
  6. David
  7. Michael
  8. Thomas
  9. Charles
  10. Ronald
  11. Larry
  12. Gary
  13. Donald
  14. Joseph
  15. Kenneth
  16. George
  17. Dennis
  18. Paul
  19. Edward
  20. Jerry
  21. Daniel
  22. Frank
  23. Roger
  24. Stephen
  25. Raymond
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Gloria
  2. Cheryl
  3. Joan
  4. Marilyn
  5. Beverly
  6. Virginia
  7. Martha
  8. Bonnie
  9. Pamela
  10. Jane
  11. Helen
  12. Jean
  13. Ruth
  14. Frances
  15. Ann
  16. Phyllis
  17. Diana
  18. Peggy
  19. Alice
  20. Connie
  21. Cynthia
  22. Elaine
  23. Catherine
  24. Gail
  25. Christine
  26. Doris
  27. Suzanne
  28. Jo
  29. Marie
  30. Lois
  31. Rita
  32. Joanne
  33. Ellen
  34. Wanda
  35. Rose
  36. Sue
  37. Jacqueline
  38. Kathryn
  39. Charlotte
  40. Evelyn
  41. Geraldine
  42. Sally
  43. Rebecca
  44. Paula
  45. Sheila
  46. Darlene
  47. Carole
  48. Sherry
  49. Rosemary
  50. Laura
  51. Dianne
  52. Norma
  53. Katherine
  54. Kathy
  55. Eileen
  56. Anne
  57. Sylvia
  58. Jeanne
  59. Anita
  60. Patsy
  61. Roberta
  62. Anna
  63. Maria
  64. Marcia
  65. Joann
  66. Louise
  67. Sarah
  68. Lorraine
  69. Lynn
  70. Maureen
  71. Theresa
  72. Annie
  73. Marsha
  74. Glenda
  75. Constance
Boys
  1. Terry
  2. Gerald
  3. Steven
  4. Wayne
  5. Walter
  6. Lawrence
  7. Bruce
  8. Harold
  9. Douglas
  10. Jack
  11. Arthur
  12. Joe
  13. Peter
  14. Carl
  15. Willie
  16. Henry
  17. Jimmy
  18. Roy
  19. Anthony
  20. Billy
  21. Danny
  22. Johnny
  23. Ralph
  24. Alan
  25. Harry
  26. Fred
  27. Albert
  28. Bobby
  29. Ronnie
  30. Howard
  31. Gregory
  32. Eugene
  33. Mark
  34. Patrick
  35. Timothy
  36. Philip
  37. Dale
  38. Louis
  39. Mike
  40. Stanley
  41. Russell
  42. Leonard
  43. Barry
  44. Steve
  45. Samuel
  46. Ernest
  47. Bill
  48. Jim
  49. Allen
  50. Frederick
  51. Norman
  52. Tommy
  53. Jeffrey
  54. Don
  55. Francis
  56. Glenn
  57. Earl
  58. Phillip
  59. Andrew
  60. Eddie
  61. Melvin
  62. Tom
  63. Marvin
  64. Clarence
  65. Leroy
  66. Lee
  67. Martin
  68. Rodney
  69. Alfred
  70. Ray
  71. Keith
  72. Herbert
  73. Gene
  74. Curtis
  75. Clifford
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1946.

Famous people born in 1946

Diane Keaton · American actress and film directorJanuary 5
Syd Barrett · British musicianJanuary 6
Dolly Parton · American singer-songwriterJanuary 19
Julian Barnes · English writerJanuary 19
David Lynch · American filmmakerJanuary 20
Blake Clark · American stand-up comedianFebruary 2
Isaias Afwerki · President of Eritrea since 1993February 2
Gregory Hines · American actor and dancerFebruary 14
Alan Rickman · British actor and directorFebruary 21
Ahmed Zewail · Egyptian chemistFebruary 26
Liza Minnelli · American actress and singerMarch 12
Frank Welker · American actorMarch 12
Robert J. Shiller · American economistMarch 29
Robert Metcalfe · American electrical engineerApril 7
Ed O'Neill · American actorApril 12
Al Green · American singerApril 13
Tim Curry · British actorApril 19
John Waters · American filmmaker, actor, comedian and writerApril 22
Talia Shire · American actressApril 25
Vladimir Zhirinovsky · Russian politicianApril 25
Carl XVI Gustaf · King of Sweden since 1973April 30
David Suchet · English actorMay 2
Candice Bergen · American actressMay 9
Daniel Libeskind · Polish-American architectMay 12
Claudia Goldin · American economistMay 14
Cher · American musician, singer, actress and television personalityMay 20
George Best · Northern Irish footballerMay 22
Tansu Çiller · Turkish politicianMay 24
Paul L. Modrich · American biochemistJune 13
Donald Trump · President of the United StatesJune 14
Bruce Davison · American actorJune 28
Richard Axel · American molecular biologistJuly 2
Gerard 't Hooft · Dutch theoretical physicistJuly 5
George W. Bush · 43rd President of the United StatesJuly 6
Sylvester Stallone · American actor and filmmakerJuly 6
Peter Singer · Australian moral philosopherJuly 6
Sue Lyon · American actressJuly 10
Cheech Marin · American actorJuly 13
Vincent Pastore · American actorJuly 14
Linda Ronstadt · American singerJuly 15
Hassanal Bolkiah · Sultan of Brunei since 1967July 15
Danny Glover · American actorJuly 22
Mireille Mathieu · French singerJuly 22
Gallagher · American stand-up comedianJuly 24
John C. Mather · American astrophysicist and cosmologistAugust 7
Marilyn vos Savant · American magazine columnist, author and lecturerAugust 11
Janet Yellen · 78th United States Secretary of the TreasuryAugust 13
Bill Clinton · 42nd President of the United StatesAugust 19
Barbara Bach · American actressAugust 28
Bob Beamon · American track and field athleteAugust 29
Peggy Lipton · American actress and singerAugust 30
Roh Moo-hyun · 16th President of the Republic of KoreaSeptember 1
Billy Preston · American R&B musicianSeptember 2
Freddie Mercury · British singer, songwriter and musician, frontman of the rock band QueenSeptember 5
Aziz Sancar · Turkish geneticistSeptember 8
Oliver Stone · American film director, screenwriter, and producerSeptember 15
Tommy Lee Jones · American actor and film directorSeptember 15
Andrea Dworkin · American feminist writerSeptember 26
Susan Sarandon · American actress and activistOctober 4
Chuck Hagel · American soldier and politicianOctober 4
Dennis Kucinich · American politicianOctober 8
Naoto Kan · 94th Prime Minister of JapanOctober 10
J. Craig Venter · American biotechnologist and businessmanOctober 14
Suzanne Somers · American actressOctober 16
Philip Pullman · English authorOctober 19
Elfriede Jelinek · Austrian playwright and novelistOctober 20
Deepak Chopra · Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocateOctober 22
William Thurston · American mathematicianOctober 30
Laura Bush · First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009November 4
Sally Field · American actressNovember 6
Guus Hiddink · Dutch football player and managerNovember 8
Terence McKenna · American ethnobotanist and mysticNovember 16
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow · Bishop, priest, eastern Orthodox priest, eastern Orthodox bishopNovember 20
Marina Abramović · Serbian performance artistNovember 30
Gianni Versace · Italian fashion designerDecember 2
José Carreras · Spanish tenorDecember 5
Sonia Gandhi · Indian politicianDecember 9
Patty Duke · American actressDecember 14
Jane Birkin · British-French actress and singerDecember 14
Benny Andersson · Swedish musician and composerDecember 16
Steven Spielberg · American filmmakerDecember 18
Steve Biko · South African anti-apartheid activistDecember 18
Jeff Sessions · American politician and lawyerDecember 24
Jimmy Buffett · American singer-songwriterDecember 25
Patti Smith · American singer, songwriter, author and poetDecember 30
Diane von Fürstenberg · Belgian-born American fashion designerDecember 31

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