Born in 1951
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1951
Girls
- Linda
- Mary
- Patricia
- Deborah
- Barbara
- Susan
- Nancy
- Karen
- Sandra
- Kathleen
- Carol
- Donna
- Sharon
- Brenda
- Diane
- Pamela
- Margaret
- Debra
- Janet
- Cynthia
- Janice
- Carolyn
- Elizabeth
- Christine
- Judith
Boys
- James
- Robert
- John
- Michael
- David
- William
- Richard
- Thomas
- Charles
- Gary
- Larry
- Ronald
- Steven
- Joseph
- Donald
- Kenneth
- Dennis
- Paul
- Stephen
- Mark
- Daniel
- George
- Edward
- Jerry
- Gregory
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Judy
- Shirley
- Joyce
- Betty
- Cheryl
- Gloria
- Rebecca
- Beverly
- Catherine
- Kathy
- Gail
- Bonnie
- Martha
- Joan
- Peggy
- Marilyn
- Dorothy
- Jane
- Connie
- Kathryn
- Ann
- Virginia
- Denise
- Jean
- Diana
- Paula
- Wanda
- Ruth
- Helen
- Katherine
- Jacqueline
- Phyllis
- Vicki
- Frances
- Laura
- Rita
- Alice
- Teresa
- Theresa
- Rose
- Elaine
- Jo
- Ellen
- Sheila
- Sherry
- Cathy
- Lynn
- Joanne
- Marcia
- Maria
- Marsha
- Sally
- Marie
- Darlene
- Doris
- Victoria
- Anne
- Suzanne
- Charlotte
- Lois
- Constance
- Vickie
- Evelyn
- Glenda
- Dianne
- Sarah
- Roberta
- Maureen
- Anna
- Eileen
- Anita
- Sylvia
- Jeanne
- Julie
- Valerie
Boys
- Bruce
- Douglas
- Timothy
- Roger
- Terry
- Frank
- Raymond
- Lawrence
- Anthony
- Jeffrey
- Gerald
- Wayne
- Peter
- Patrick
- Alan
- Danny
- Walter
- Carl
- Arthur
- Willie
- Harold
- Henry
- Jack
- Dale
- Johnny
- Ralph
- Roy
- Kevin
- Stanley
- Philip
- Randy
- Joe
- Glenn
- Keith
- Albert
- Christopher
- Jimmy
- Craig
- Billy
- Eugene
- Randall
- Samuel
- Scott
- Andrew
- Harry
- Barry
- Allen
- Russell
- Howard
- Brian
- Louis
- Bobby
- Frederick
- Phillip
- Leonard
- Martin
- Ronnie
- Ernest
- Rodney
- Francis
- Steve
- Fred
- Melvin
- Eddie
- Norman
- Curtis
- Lee
- Eric
- Tommy
- Earl
- Marvin
- Micheal
- Clarence
- Theodore
- Alfred
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1951.
Famous people born in 1951
Jan Fischer · Czech politicianJanuary 2
Michel Barnier · Former Prime Minister of FranceJanuary 9
Kirstie Alley · American actressJanuary 12
Rush Limbaugh · American political commentatorJanuary 12
Phil Collins · English drummer, singer, and songwriterJanuary 30
Blaise Compaoré · President of Burkina Faso from 1987 to 2014February 3
Kevin Keegan · English association football player and managerFebruary 14
William Katt · American actor and musicianFebruary 16
Gordon Brown · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010February 20
Kenny Dalglish · Scottish association football player and managerMarch 4
Chris Rea · English male singer-songwriter and guitaristMarch 4
Kurt Russell · American actorMarch 17
Roger Myerson · American economistMarch 29
Hilda Heine · Marshallese politicianApril 6
Olivia Hussey · British actressApril 17
Luther Vandross · American R&B singerApril 20
Frank Wilczek · American theoretical physicistMay 15
Anatoly Karpov · Russian chess playerMay 23
Sally Ride · American astronaut and physicistMay 26
Fernando Lugo · 47.° President of ParaguayMay 30
Bonnie Tyler · Welsh singerJune 8
James Newton Howard · American composer and music producerJune 9
Alexander Sokurov · Russian film directorJune 14
Mary McAleese · 8th President of IrelandJune 27
Don Rosa · American comic book writer and illustratorJune 29
Jean-Claude Duvalier · President of the Republic of HaitiJuly 3
Geoffrey Rush · Australian actorJuly 6
Anjelica Huston · American actressJuly 8
Chris Cooper · American actorJuly 9
Rajnath Singh · Indian politicianJuly 10
Jesse Ventura · American professional wrestler and 38th governor of MinnesotaJuly 15
Elio Di Rupo · Belgian politicianJuly 18
Robin Williams · American actor and comedianJuly 21
Lynda Carter · American actress, singer, and beauty pageant titleholderJuly 24
Santiago Calatrava · Spanish-Swiss engineer, architect, and artistJuly 28
Louis van Gaal · Dutch footbal player and managerAugust 8
Juan Manuel Santos · President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018August 10
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua · President of NigeriaAugust 16
John Deacon · British musician, bassist and songwriterAugust 19
Orson Scott Card · American science fiction novelistAugust 24
Edward Witten · American theoretical physicistAugust 26
Angelique Rockas · South African Greek actressAugust 31
Mark Harmon · American actorSeptember 2
Michael Keaton · American actorSeptember 5
Paul Breitner · German association football playerSeptember 5
Joe Pantoliano · American actorSeptember 12
Salva Kiir · President of South Sudan since 2011September 13
Jean Smart · American actressSeptember 13
David Coverdale · English rock singerSeptember 22
Shehbaz Sharif · Prime Minister of PakistanSeptember 23
Mark Hamill · American actorSeptember 25
Michelle Bachelet · President of Chile fromSeptember 29
Sting · British musicianOctober 2
Romina Power · American singer and actressOctober 2
Kathryn D. Sullivan · American astronautOctober 3
Karen Allen · American actressOctober 5
Prabowo Subianto · President of the Republic of IndonesiaOctober 17
Claudio Ranieri · Italian footballer and managerOctober 20
Traian Băsescu · President of Romania from 2004 to 2014November 4
Kathryn Bigelow · American filmmakerNovember 27
Treat Williams · American actor, producer, director, and authorDecember 1
Jaco Pastorius · American jazz bassistDecember 1
Bill Bryson · American-British authorDecember 8
Ernesto Zedillo · 61st President of MexicoDecember 27