Born in 1953
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1953
Girls
- Mary
- Linda
- Deborah
- Patricia
- Susan
- Barbara
- Debra
- Nancy
- Karen
- Pamela
- Sandra
- Cynthia
- Donna
- Kathleen
- Sharon
- Carol
- Diane
- Brenda
- Janet
- Margaret
- Elizabeth
- Janice
- Kathy
- Rebecca
- Carolyn
Boys
- Robert
- James
- Michael
- John
- David
- William
- Richard
- Thomas
- Charles
- Gary
- Steven
- Mark
- Joseph
- Donald
- Ronald
- Paul
- Kenneth
- Larry
- Dennis
- Daniel
- Stephen
- George
- Edward
- Gregory
- Jeffrey
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Joyce
- Judy
- Cheryl
- Shirley
- Judith
- Denise
- Christine
- Betty
- Beverly
- Catherine
- Marilyn
- Joan
- Gloria
- Gail
- Paula
- Martha
- Teresa
- Jane
- Peggy
- Bonnie
- Ann
- Connie
- Kathryn
- Dorothy
- Theresa
- Laura
- Jean
- Virginia
- Jo
- Diana
- Cathy
- Wanda
- Jacqueline
- Rose
- Sheila
- Vicki
- Ruth
- Katherine
- Rita
- Helen
- Robin
- Lynn
- Maria
- Phyllis
- Sherry
- Joanne
- Frances
- Alice
- Julie
- Darlene
- Ellen
- Elaine
- Suzanne
- Vickie
- Anne
- Sally
- Victoria
- Marsha
- Marcia
- Rhonda
- Marie
- Doris
- Valerie
- Anita
- Roberta
- Lois
- Maureen
- Sarah
- Evelyn
- Constance
- Leslie
- Jeanne
- Anna
- Cindy
- Charlotte
Boys
- Timothy
- Douglas
- Bruce
- Jerry
- Terry
- Roger
- Anthony
- Frank
- Raymond
- Randy
- Kevin
- Lawrence
- Peter
- Patrick
- Wayne
- Danny
- Gerald
- Alan
- Carl
- Walter
- Scott
- Keith
- Dale
- Willie
- Arthur
- Ricky
- Johnny
- Brian
- Henry
- Roy
- Harold
- Jack
- Rodney
- Ralph
- Craig
- Philip
- Stanley
- Christopher
- Randall
- Billy
- Joe
- Glenn
- Andrew
- Albert
- Samuel
- Russell
- Jimmy
- Barry
- Bobby
- Eugene
- Phillip
- Howard
- Louis
- Ronnie
- Frederick
- Allen
- Martin
- Harry
- Steve
- Leonard
- Curtis
- Ernest
- Micheal
- Eric
- Francis
- Melvin
- Fred
- Lee
- Marvin
- Tommy
- Earl
- Eddie
- Norman
- Jay
- Vincent
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1953.
Famous people born in 1953
Pat Benatar · American singerJanuary 10
Paul Allen · American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of MicrosoftJanuary 21
Jim Jarmusch · American film director, screenwriter and actorJanuary 22
Moon Jae-in · 12th President of the Republic of KoreaJanuary 24
Anders Fogh Rasmussen · Former Prime Minister of Denmark and former Secretary General of NATOJanuary 26
Teresa Teng · Taiwanese ROC singerJanuary 29
Jerome Powell · American financierFebruary 4
Mary Steenburgen · American actress, singer and songwriterFebruary 8
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner · President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015February 19
José María Aznar · Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004February 25
Michael Bolton · American singer-songwriterFebruary 26
Ian Khama · Botswana politicianFebruary 27
Paul Krugman · American economistFebruary 28
Zico · Brazilian association football player and managerMarch 3
Carolyn Porco · American planetary scientistMarch 6
Ron Jeremy · American pornographic actorMarch 12
Richard Stallman · American software freedom activistMarch 16
Isabelle Huppert · French actressMarch 16
Lenín Moreno · President of EcuadorMarch 19
Chaka Khan · American singerMarch 23
Andrew Wiles · English mathematicianApril 11
Guy Verhofstadt · Prime Minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008April 11
Tony Blair · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007May 6
Norodom Sihamoni · King of CambodiaMay 14
Pierce Brosnan · Irish actorMay 16
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev · President of Kazakhstan since 2019May 17
Alfred Molina · British actorMay 24
Danny Elfman · American film composerMay 29
John Edwards · American politicianJune 10
Tim Allen · American actor and comedianJune 13
Xi Jinping · General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012June 15
Benazir Bhutto · 11th and 13th prime minister of PakistanJune 21
Cyndi Lauper · American singerJune 22
Armen Sarkissian · 4th President of ArmeniaJune 23
William E. Moerner · Nobel prize winning American chemical physicistJune 24
Thomas L. Friedman · American journalist and authorJuly 20
Najib Razak · Former 6th Prime Minister of MalaysiaJuly 23
Ken Burns · American documentarian and filmmakerJuly 29
Lloyd Austin · United States 28th Secretary of DefenseAugust 8
Jean Tirole · French economistAugust 9
Hulk Hogan · American professional wrestler, actor and television personalityAugust 11
Kristalina Georgieva · Bulgarian economist and CEOAugust 13
James Horner · American film composer and conductorAugust 14
Herta Müller · German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayistAugust 17
Ahmad Shah Massoud · Tajik military leaderSeptember 2
John Zorn · American composer, saxophonist and bandleaderSeptember 2
Fatih Terim · Turkish association football player and managerSeptember 4
Amy Irving · American actressSeptember 10
Ségolène Royal · French politicianSeptember 22
Tony Shalhoub · American actorOctober 9
David Morse · American actorOctober 11
Douglas Diamond · American economist and professor of financeOctober 25
Kate Capshaw · American actress who converted to JudaismNovember 3
Andrés Manuel López Obrador · Mexican politician. President of Mexico from 2018 to 2024November 13
Frances Conroy · American actressNovember 13
Dominique de Villepin · French politician and diplomatNovember 14
Alan Moore · British comic book authorNovember 18
Steve Bannon · American media executive & political strategistNovember 27
Victor Ambros · American developmental biologistDecember 1
Kim Basinger · American actressDecember 8
John Malkovich · American actorDecember 9
Ben Bernanke · American economistDecember 13
Bill Pullman · American actorDecember 17
Toomas Hendrik Ilves · Estonian politician and diplomat, fourth president of EstoniaDecember 26
Thomas Bach · German fencer, lawyer and sports officialDecember 29