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Born in 1961

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

Top 100 baby names of 1961

Girls
  1. Mary
  2. Lisa
  3. Susan
  4. Linda
  5. Karen
  6. Patricia
  7. Donna
  8. Cynthia
  9. Sandra
  10. Deborah
  11. Brenda
  12. Barbara
  13. Debra
  14. Lori
  15. Pamela
  16. Nancy
  17. Sharon
  18. Teresa
  19. Elizabeth
  20. Cheryl
  21. Laura
  22. Kimberly
  23. Julie
  24. Carol
  25. Kathy
Boys
  1. Michael
  2. David
  3. John
  4. James
  5. Robert
  6. Mark
  7. William
  8. Richard
  9. Thomas
  10. Steven
  11. Jeffrey
  12. Joseph
  13. Charles
  14. Kevin
  15. Timothy
  16. Kenneth
  17. Daniel
  18. Paul
  19. Scott
  20. Brian
  21. Gary
  22. Donald
  23. Gregory
  24. Ronald
  25. Anthony
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Diane
  2. Robin
  3. Tammy
  4. Kathleen
  5. Denise
  6. Debbie
  7. Janet
  8. Cindy
  9. Michelle
  10. Theresa
  11. Kim
  12. Jacqueline
  13. Angela
  14. Christine
  15. Margaret
  16. Tina
  17. Carolyn
  18. Laurie
  19. Rebecca
  20. Kelly
  21. Rhonda
  22. Jennifer
  23. Catherine
  24. Dawn
  25. Connie
  26. Terri
  27. Janice
  28. Sherry
  29. Ann
  30. Cathy
  31. Diana
  32. Maria
  33. Judy
  34. Sheila
  35. Paula
  36. Wendy
  37. Joyce
  38. Michele
  39. Tracy
  40. Beth
  41. Beverly
  42. Valerie
  43. Amy
  44. Suzanne
  45. Wanda
  46. Lynn
  47. Jane
  48. Annette
  49. Jill
  50. Bonnie
  51. Vicki
  52. Carla
  53. Stephanie
  54. Renee
  55. Darlene
  56. Martha
  57. Gloria
  58. Judith
  59. Leslie
  60. Shirley
  61. Katherine
  62. Betty
  63. Peggy
  64. Joan
  65. Anne
  66. Anita
  67. Jean
  68. Kathryn
  69. Gail
  70. Melissa
  71. Ruth
  72. Ellen
  73. Regina
  74. Dorothy
  75. Anna
Boys
  1. Christopher
  2. Stephen
  3. Douglas
  4. Edward
  5. Larry
  6. George
  7. Terry
  8. Randy
  9. Dennis
  10. Keith
  11. Mike
  12. Jerry
  13. Eric
  14. Patrick
  15. Bruce
  16. Frank
  17. Peter
  18. Craig
  19. Ricky
  20. Steve
  21. Todd
  22. Roger
  23. Raymond
  24. Jeff
  25. Jeffery
  26. Alan
  27. Andrew
  28. Tony
  29. Danny
  30. Russell
  31. Carl
  32. Chris
  33. Dale
  34. Matthew
  35. Joe
  36. Wayne
  37. Gerald
  38. Randall
  39. Glenn
  40. Tim
  41. Barry
  42. Lawrence
  43. Billy
  44. Phillip
  45. Johnny
  46. Jimmy
  47. Rodney
  48. Martin
  49. Walter
  50. Curtis
  51. Bobby
  52. Greg
  53. Jim
  54. Philip
  55. Darryl
  56. Jay
  57. Bryan
  58. Roy
  59. Dean
  60. Arthur
  61. Willie
  62. Bradley
  63. Tom
  64. Samuel
  65. Jack
  66. Ronnie
  67. Henry
  68. Jon
  69. Harold
  70. Ralph
  71. Allen
  72. Albert
  73. Vincent
  74. Victor
  75. Troy
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1961.

Famous people born in 1961

Kiyotaka Matsui · Japanese association football playerJanuary 4
Julia Louis-Dreyfus · American actressJanuary 13
Nastassja Kinski · German actressJanuary 24
Wayne Gretzky · Canadian ice hockey player and coachJanuary 26
Alexander Payne · American film director, producer and screenwriterFebruary 10
David Graeber · American anthropologist and anarchistFebruary 12
Henry Rollins · American musicianFebruary 13
Abhijit Banerjee · Indian American economistFebruary 21
Erna Solberg · Prime Minister of Norway from 2013 to 2021February 24
Sanae Takaichi · Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan since 2025March 7
Moungi Bawendi · American chemist of French and Tunisian descentMarch 15
Lothar Matthäus · German association football player, manager, and punditMarch 21
Amy Sedaris · American comedian and actorMarch 29
Susan Boyle · British singerApril 1
Christopher Meloni · American actorApril 2
Eddie Murphy · American actor and comedianApril 3
Vincent Gallo · American film director, writer, model, actor and musicianApril 11
Lisa Gerrard · Australian musician, singer and composerApril 12
Carol W. Greider · American molecular biologistApril 15
Élisabeth Borne · Prime Minister of France from 2022 to 2024April 18
Mary E. Brunkow · American molecular biologist and immunologistApril 23
Joan Chen · Chinese-American actress and directorApril 26
Isiah Thomas · American basketball player, coach, executiveApril 30
George Clooney · American-French actor and filmmakerMay 6
John Corbett · American actor and country music singerMay 9
Dennis Rodman · American basketball playerMay 13
Tim Roth · British actorMay 14
Enya · Irish singerMay 17
Lea Thompson · American actressMay 31
Yevgeny Prigozhin · Russian mercenary leaderJune 1
Lawrence Lessig · American academic, political activistJune 3
Ferenc Gyurcsány · Prime Minister of Hungary from 2004 to 2009June 4
Tom Araya · Chilean-American musicianJune 6
Michael J. Fox · Canadian-American actor, comedian, author, film producer, and activistJune 9
Aaron Sorkin · American filmmakerJune 9
Boy George · British musicianJune 14
Jim Hanks · American actorJune 15
Bidya Devi Bhandari · President of NepalJune 19
Joko Widodo · 7th President of the Republic of IndonesiaJune 21
Diana, Princess of Wales · Member of the British royal family and Princess of WalesJuly 1
Carl Lewis · US track & field athleteJuly 1
Forest Whitaker · American actorJuly 15
António Costa · Portuguese politician, President of the European Council since 2024July 17
Woody Harrelson · American actorJuly 23
David Kaufman · American actor and singerJuly 23
Laurence Fishburne · American actorJuly 30
Barack Obama · 44th President of the United StatesAugust 4
Pumpuang Duangjan · Thai female singerAugust 4
John Key · Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016August 9
Stephen Hillenburg · American marine science educator and artistAugust 21
Billy Ray Cyrus · American country singer and actorAugust 25
Tom Ford · American fashion designer and filmmakerAugust 27
Jennifer Coolidge · American actressAugust 28
Virginia Madsen · American actressSeptember 11
Dave Mustaine · American musicianSeptember 13
James Gandolfini · American actorSeptember 18
Bonnie Hunt · American actress and comedianSeptember 22
Heather Locklear · American actressSeptember 25
Julia Gillard · Prime Minister of Australia from 2010 to 2013September 29
Jodi Benson · American actressOctober 10
Wynton Marsalis · American jazz musician and educatorOctober 18
Uhuru Kenyatta · 4th President of Republic of KenyaOctober 26
Dylan McDermott · American actorOctober 26
Peter Jackson · New Zealand film director, screenwriter, producer and actorOctober 31
Petr Pavel · Czech general and statesman, 4th president of the Czech RepublicNovember 1
Ralph Macchio · American actorNovember 4
Nadia Comăneci · Romanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalistNovember 12
Meg Ryan · American actressNovember 19
Alfonso Cuarón · Mexican filmmakerNovember 28
Tom Sizemore · American actorNovember 29
Ann Coulter · American author, political commentatorDecember 8
Macky Sall · 4th President of Senegal, formerly Prime MinisterDecember 11
Bill Hicks · American comedianDecember 16
Eric Allin Cornell · American physicist, professorDecember 19
Abigail Johnson · American businesswoman, business executive, heiress, billionaireDecember 19
Ilham Aliyev · President of Azerbaijan since 2003December 24
Guido Westerwelle · German politician, Foreign Minister of GermanyDecember 27

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