Born in 1962
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1962
Girls
- Lisa
- Mary
- Susan
- Karen
- Linda
- Patricia
- Donna
- Cynthia
- Deborah
- Sandra
- Lori
- Brenda
- Pamela
- Barbara
- Debra
- Kimberly
- Sharon
- Teresa
- Nancy
- Elizabeth
- Laura
- Julie
- Tammy
- Cheryl
- Robin
Boys
- Michael
- David
- John
- James
- Robert
- Mark
- William
- Richard
- Thomas
- Jeffrey
- Scott
- Steven
- Joseph
- Kevin
- Charles
- Timothy
- Daniel
- Kenneth
- Paul
- Brian
- Gregory
- Gary
- Donald
- Anthony
- Ronald
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Diane
- Kathy
- Carol
- Kathleen
- Denise
- Michelle
- Debbie
- Tina
- Cindy
- Janet
- Angela
- Kim
- Kelly
- Christine
- Theresa
- Jennifer
- Laurie
- Margaret
- Jacqueline
- Rhonda
- Carolyn
- Rebecca
- Sherry
- Maria
- Dawn
- Connie
- Sheila
- Catherine
- Terri
- Tracy
- Ann
- Diana
- Janice
- Michele
- Paula
- Amy
- Cathy
- Judy
- Wendy
- Suzanne
- Beth
- Valerie
- Melissa
- Beverly
- Stephanie
- Lynn
- Jill
- Jane
- Joyce
- Annette
- Renee
- Wanda
- Carla
- Bonnie
- Leslie
- Anita
- Sherri
- Katherine
- Anne
- Vicki
- Judith
- Martha
- Kathryn
- Darlene
- Gloria
- Regina
- Penny
- Peggy
- Jean
- Joan
- Shirley
- Betty
- Sarah
- Andrea
- Anna
Boys
- Christopher
- Douglas
- Stephen
- Edward
- Todd
- Larry
- George
- Eric
- Terry
- Randy
- Keith
- Dennis
- Jerry
- Mike
- Patrick
- Bruce
- Frank
- Peter
- Jeff
- Jeffery
- Steve
- Roger
- Raymond
- Ricky
- Andrew
- Craig
- Tony
- Alan
- Danny
- Glenn
- Matthew
- Russell
- Carl
- Chris
- Joe
- Barry
- Dale
- Wayne
- Randall
- Gerald
- Vincent
- Troy
- Phillip
- Johnny
- Lawrence
- Tim
- Billy
- Curtis
- Martin
- Jimmy
- Rodney
- Greg
- Bobby
- Walter
- Jay
- Philip
- Bryan
- Darryl
- Jon
- Jim
- Dean
- Bradley
- Samuel
- Willie
- Roy
- Arthur
- Henry
- Allen
- Jonathan
- Harold
- Victor
- Ralph
- Jack
- Tom
- Ronnie
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1962.
Famous people born in 1962
Aleksandr Dugin · Russian political activist and philosopherJanuary 7
Jim Carrey · Canadian-American actor and comedianJanuary 17
Olga Tokarczuk · Polish writer and activistJanuary 29
Abdullah II of Jordan · King of the Hashemite Kingdom of JordanJanuary 30
Jennifer Jason Leigh · American actressFebruary 5
Axl Rose · American singer-songwriterFebruary 6
Garth Brooks · American country music singer and songwriterFebruary 7
Cliff Burton · American bassistFebruary 10
Sheryl Crow · American musicianFebruary 11
Milo Đukanović · 2nd President of MontenegroFebruary 15
Chuck Palahniuk · American novelist, essayistFebruary 21
David Foster Wallace · American fiction writer and essayistFebruary 21
Steve Irwin · Australian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personalityFebruary 22
Adam Baldwin · American actorFebruary 27
Jon Bon Jovi · American musicianMarch 2
Jackie Joyner-Kersee · American track and field athleteMarch 3
Mitsunori Yoshida · Japanese association football playerMarch 8
Kalpana Chawla · American astronautMarch 17
Matthew Broderick · American actorMarch 21
Rosie O'Donnell · American comedian, producer, actress, and television personalityMarch 21
Marcia Cross · American actressMarch 25
MC Hammer · American rapperMarch 30
Clark Gregg · American actor, screenwriter and directorApril 2
Antony Blinken · American lawyer and diplomat and former United States Secretary of StateApril 16
Jeff Dunham · American ventriloquist and comedianApril 18
Edvard Moser · Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientistApril 27
Emilio Estevez · American actor, director, and writerMay 12
Danny Huston · American actor, directorMay 14
Dina Boluarte · Peruvian lawyer and politician, president of Peru from 2022 to 2025May 31
Hakainde Hichilema · President of Zambia since 2021June 4
Jeff Garlin · American comedian and actorJune 5
Gina Gershon · American actressJune 10
Jordan Peterson · Canadian clinical psychologistJune 12
Paula Abdul · American singerJune 19
Viktor Tsoi · Soviet rock musicianJune 21
Claudia Sheinbaum · President of Mexico since 2024June 24
Ollanta Humala · President of Peru from 2011 to 2016June 27
Tom Cruise · American actor and producerJuly 3
Jordan Belfort · American stockbrokerJuly 9
Tom Kenny · American actor and comedianJuly 13
Carlos Alazraqui · American actorJuly 20
Wesley Snipes · American actorJuly 31
Patrick Ewing · Jamaican-American basketball playerAugust 5
Michelle Yeoh · Malaysian actressAugust 6
Suzanne Collins · American television writer and novelistAugust 10
Manuel Valls · French and Spanish politicianAugust 13
John Slattery · American actorAugust 13
Steve Carell · American actor and comedianAugust 16
Felipe Calderón · 63th President of MexicoAugust 18
Ruud Gullit · Dutch association football player and managerSeptember 1
Shinya Yamanaka · Japanese doctor and medical scientistSeptember 4
Frank Rijkaard · Dutch association football player and managerSeptember 30
Jeff Bennett · American voice actorOctober 2
David Baker · American biochemist and computational biologistOctober 6
Joan Cusack · American actressOctober 11
Branko Crvenkovski · President of the Republic of MacedoniaOctober 12
Kelly Preston · American actressOctober 13
Flea · Australian musicianOctober 16
Evander Holyfield · American boxerOctober 19
Bob Odenkirk · American actor, comedian and filmmakerOctober 22
Yahya Sinwar · Palestinian politician and Hamas leaderOctober 29
Anthony Kiedis · American musicianNovember 1
Gabe Newell · American computer programmer and businessmanNovember 3
Demi Moore · American actress and producerNovember 11
Naomi Wolf · American feminist and journalistNovember 12
Kirk Hammett · American guitaristNovember 18
Jodie Foster · American actress and filmmakerNovember 19
Nicolás Maduro · Venezuelan politicianNovember 23
Jon Stewart · American comedian, writer, producer, activist, and television hostNovember 28
Felicity Huffman · American actressDecember 9
James Sie · American actorDecember 18
Ralph Fiennes · English actor, director and producerDecember 22
Stefan Hell · Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical ChemistryDecember 23
Carles Puigdemont · Catalan politicianDecember 29