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Born in 1948

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

Top 100 baby names of 1948

Girls
  1. Linda
  2. Mary
  3. Barbara
  4. Patricia
  5. Susan
  6. Sandra
  7. Nancy
  8. Carol
  9. Sharon
  10. Kathleen
  11. Donna
  12. Karen
  13. Margaret
  14. Carolyn
  15. Judith
  16. Judy
  17. Brenda
  18. Betty
  19. Diane
  20. Shirley
  21. Joyce
  22. Pamela
  23. Janice
  24. Janet
  25. Cheryl
Boys
  1. James
  2. Robert
  3. John
  4. William
  5. David
  6. Michael
  7. Richard
  8. Thomas
  9. Charles
  10. Ronald
  11. Larry
  12. Gary
  13. Joseph
  14. Donald
  15. Kenneth
  16. George
  17. Dennis
  18. Paul
  19. Edward
  20. Stephen
  21. Jerry
  22. Daniel
  23. Steven
  24. Roger
  25. Frank
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Elizabeth
  2. Cynthia
  3. Gloria
  4. Dorothy
  5. Deborah
  6. Beverly
  7. Martha
  8. Marilyn
  9. Bonnie
  10. Christine
  11. Virginia
  12. Joan
  13. Peggy
  14. Jane
  15. Helen
  16. Catherine
  17. Frances
  18. Connie
  19. Ann
  20. Ruth
  21. Phyllis
  22. Jean
  23. Diana
  24. Alice
  25. Rebecca
  26. Gail
  27. Paula
  28. Elaine
  29. Kathryn
  30. Kathy
  31. Jo
  32. Wanda
  33. Jacqueline
  34. Rita
  35. Marie
  36. Sherry
  37. Theresa
  38. Rose
  39. Doris
  40. Joanne
  41. Suzanne
  42. Ellen
  43. Katherine
  44. Charlotte
  45. Lois
  46. Sheila
  47. Sally
  48. Laura
  49. Evelyn
  50. Maria
  51. Marsha
  52. Darlene
  53. Sue
  54. Marcia
  55. Lynn
  56. Vicki
  57. Teresa
  58. Geraldine
  59. Lynda
  60. Sarah
  61. Dianne
  62. Anne
  63. Maureen
  64. Anna
  65. Rosemary
  66. Eileen
  67. Glenda
  68. Constance
  69. Joann
  70. Jeanne
  71. Lorraine
  72. Annie
  73. Patsy
  74. Louise
  75. Sylvia
Boys
  1. Terry
  2. Raymond
  3. Bruce
  4. Mark
  5. Gerald
  6. Lawrence
  7. Gregory
  8. Douglas
  9. Wayne
  10. Walter
  11. Harold
  12. Peter
  13. Timothy
  14. Danny
  15. Willie
  16. Anthony
  17. Carl
  18. Jack
  19. Arthur
  20. Henry
  21. Alan
  22. Joe
  23. Patrick
  24. Roy
  25. Jimmy
  26. Ralph
  27. Johnny
  28. Billy
  29. Philip
  30. Albert
  31. Dale
  32. Harry
  33. Jeffrey
  34. Ronnie
  35. Steve
  36. Eugene
  37. Bobby
  38. Howard
  39. Louis
  40. Stanley
  41. Fred
  42. Russell
  43. Mike
  44. Phillip
  45. Samuel
  46. Leonard
  47. Allen
  48. Glenn
  49. Barry
  50. Frederick
  51. Ernest
  52. Andrew
  53. Eddie
  54. Tommy
  55. Francis
  56. Melvin
  57. Craig
  58. Earl
  59. Bill
  60. Norman
  61. Jim
  62. Clarence
  63. Martin
  64. Keith
  65. Marvin
  66. Don
  67. Rodney
  68. Lee
  69. Tom
  70. Brian
  71. Alfred
  72. Leroy
  73. Randall
  74. Randy
  75. Ray
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1948.

Famous people born in 1948

Ichirou Mizuki · Japanese singer, voice actorJanuary 7
Carl Weathers · American actor and football playerJanuary 14
John Carpenter · American filmmaker, composer and actorJanuary 16
Mikhail Baryshnikov · Latvian-American dancer, choreographer and actorJanuary 27
Henning Mankell · Swedish writer, human rights activist and dramatistFebruary 3
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo · Roman Catholic bishopFebruary 3
Alice Cooper · American singerFebruary 4
Barbara Hershey · American actressFebruary 5
Ray Kurzweil · American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventorFebruary 12
Steven Chu · American physicistFebruary 28
Mercedes Ruehl · American actressFebruary 28
Bernadette Peters · American actress and singerFebruary 28
James Ellroy · American novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoiristMarch 4
James Taylor · American singer and guitaristMarch 12
Billy Crystal · American actorMarch 14
William Gibson · American-Canadian speculative fiction writerMarch 17
John de Lancie · American actorMarch 20
Andrew Lloyd Webber · British theatre composerMarch 22
Steven Tyler · American singerMarch 26
Dianne Wiest · American actressMarch 28
Al Gore · Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001March 31
Dan Simmons · American novelistApril 4
Marcello Lippi · Italian association football player and managerApril 12
Michael Kamen · American composerApril 15
Paul Milgrom · American economistApril 20
Frank Abagnale · American security consultantApril 27
Terry Pratchett · English fantasy authorApril 28
George Tupou V · King of TongaMay 4
Brian Eno · British musician, music producer, music theorist and visual artistMay 15
Stevie Nicks · American singer and songwriterMay 26
Svetlana Alexievich · Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writerMay 31
Kathy Bates · American film actress and directorJune 28
Raymond Leo Burke · American Catholic cardinalJune 30
Richard Simmons · American fitness instructor and video producerJuly 12
Cat Stevens · British musicianJuly 21
Beppe Grillo · Italian comedian, actor, blogger, and politicianJuly 21
Jean Reno · Spanish-French actorJuly 30
James P. Allison · American immunologist and Nobel laureateAugust 7
Svetlana Savitskaya · Soviet cosmonautAugust 8
Jan Palach · Czech student who killed himself by self-immolation in protestAugust 11
Robert Plant · English musician and lead vocalist of Led ZeppelinAugust 20
Sauli Niinistö · Finnish politician and the 12th President of FinlandAugust 24
Jean-Michel Jarre · French composer, performer and record producerAugust 24
Christa McAuliffe · American educator and astronautSeptember 2
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan · President of the United Arab Emirates from 2004 to 2022September 7
Charles Simonyi · Hungarian-American computer software executiveSeptember 10
Jeremy Irons · British actorSeptember 19
George R. R. Martin · American writer and television producerSeptember 20
Phil Hartman · Canadian-American actor, comedian, screenwriterSeptember 24
Olivia Newton-John · British and Australian singerSeptember 26
Oliver Hart · British-born American economistOctober 9
Jackson Browne · American singer-songwriterOctober 9
Hema Malini · Indian actress, dancer, and politicianOctober 16
George Wendt · American actorOctober 17
Margot Kidder · Canadian and American actress and activistOctober 17
Robert Jordan · American fantasy writerOctober 17
Amadou Toumani Touré · Malian soldier and politicianNovember 4
William Daniel Phillips · Physics Nobel laureateNovember 5
Glenn Frey · American rock musicianNovember 6
Luiz Felipe Scolari · Brazilian association football player and managerNovember 9
Hassan Rouhani · President of Iran from 2013 to 2021November 12
Charles III · King of the United Kingdom since 2022November 14
John Bolton · American lawyer and diplomatNovember 20
Michel Suleiman · 12th President of LebanonNovember 21
Elizabeth Blackburn · Australian-American biological researcherNovember 26
Ozzy Osbourne · English musician and television personalityDecember 3
Yoshihide Suga · Prime Minister of Japan from 2020 to 2021December 6
Keke Rosberg · Finnish racing driverDecember 6
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa · Portuguese politician and academic, former President of PortugalDecember 12
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu · Turkish politicianDecember 17
Abdulrazak Gurnah · Tanzanian-born British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureDecember 20
Samuel L. Jackson · American actorDecember 21
Nicolae Timofti · 4th President of MoldovaDecember 22
Gérard Depardieu · French actorDecember 27
Randy Schekman · Nobel prize winning American cell biologistDecember 30
Donna Summer · American singerDecember 31

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