Born in 1966

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

Top 100 baby names of 1966

Girls
  1. Lisa
  2. Kimberly
  3. Mary
  4. Michelle
  5. Karen
  6. Susan
  7. Patricia
  8. Tammy
  9. Angela
  10. Jennifer
  11. Cynthia
  12. Donna
  13. Julie
  14. Pamela
  15. Deborah
  16. Elizabeth
  17. Sandra
  18. Linda
  19. Laura
  20. Christine
  21. Lori
  22. Melissa
  23. Tina
  24. Dawn
  25. Brenda
Boys
  1. Michael
  2. David
  3. James
  4. John
  5. Robert
  6. William
  7. Mark
  8. Richard
  9. Jeffrey
  10. Thomas
  11. Timothy
  12. Christopher
  13. Steven
  14. Brian
  15. Joseph
  16. Scott
  17. Kevin
  18. Paul
  19. Daniel
  20. Charles
  21. Kenneth
  22. Anthony
  23. Gregory
  24. Ronald
  25. Eric
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Kelly
  2. Barbara
  3. Sharon
  4. Teresa
  5. Amy
  6. Tracy
  7. Denise
  8. Nancy
  9. Cheryl
  10. Debra
  11. Michele
  12. Kathleen
  13. Stephanie
  14. Rhonda
  15. Rebecca
  16. Wendy
  17. Robin
  18. Kim
  19. Maria
  20. Diane
  21. Theresa
  22. Jacqueline
  23. Carol
  24. Jill
  25. Paula
  26. Sheila
  27. Andrea
  28. Sherry
  29. Catherine
  30. Margaret
  31. Cindy
  32. Janet
  33. Gina
  34. Kathy
  35. Carolyn
  36. Ann
  37. Suzanne
  38. Laurie
  39. Diana
  40. Beth
  41. Renee
  42. Christina
  43. Dana
  44. Tracey
  45. Connie
  46. Leslie
  47. Terri
  48. Debbie
  49. Valerie
  50. Monica
  51. Stacey
  52. Carla
  53. Katherine
  54. Annette
  55. Janice
  56. Lynn
  57. Regina
  58. Anne
  59. Wanda
  60. Sarah
  61. Kathryn
  62. Heidi
  63. Anita
  64. Shelly
  65. Bonnie
  66. Stacy
  67. Sherri
  68. Colleen
  69. Darlene
  70. Anna
  71. Tonya
  72. Judy
  73. Tamara
  74. Cathy
  75. Holly
Boys
  1. Stephen
  2. Donald
  3. Gary
  4. Todd
  5. Edward
  6. Patrick
  7. Keith
  8. Douglas
  9. Matthew
  10. Rodney
  11. Andrew
  12. George
  13. Larry
  14. Peter
  15. Terry
  16. Jerry
  17. Jeffery
  18. Frank
  19. Dennis
  20. Randy
  21. Craig
  22. Raymond
  23. Troy
  24. Tony
  25. Sean
  26. Roger
  27. Bryan
  28. Bruce
  29. Shawn
  30. Chris
  31. Carl
  32. Alan
  33. Vincent
  34. Wayne
  35. Gerald
  36. Russell
  37. Danny
  38. Darren
  39. Ricky
  40. Jonathan
  41. Lawrence
  42. Steve
  43. Bradley
  44. Mike
  45. Randall
  46. Phillip
  47. Jeff
  48. Johnny
  49. Joe
  50. Curtis
  51. Jon
  52. Jimmy
  53. Martin
  54. Jose
  55. Billy
  56. Samuel
  57. Bobby
  58. Walter
  59. Dean
  60. Dale
  61. Philip
  62. Barry
  63. Darryl
  64. Jason
  65. Glenn
  66. Jay
  67. Henry
  68. Willie
  69. Roy
  70. Darrell
  71. Arthur
  72. Allen
  73. Tracy
  74. Harold
  75. Albert
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1966.

Famous people born in 1966

Christian Kern · Austrian politician and businessmanJanuary 4
Patrick Dempsey · American actor and racecar driverJanuary 13
Stefan Edberg · Swedish tennis playerJanuary 19
Rainn Wilson · American actor, comedian, producer, and writerJanuary 20
Romário · Former Brazilian footballer, politician and Senator of Brazil since 2015January 29
Michelle Akers · American soccer playerFebruary 1
Rick Astley · British singerFebruary 6
Cindy Crawford · American modelFebruary 20
Didier Queloz · Swiss astronomerFebruary 23
Billy Zane · American actorFebruary 24
Téa Leoni · American actress and film producerFebruary 25
Zack Snyder · American filmmakerMarch 1
Mikhail Mishustin · Russian politicianMarch 3
Robin Wright · American actressApril 8
Cynthia Nixon · American actress and politicianApril 9
Jeffrey Dean Morgan · American actorApril 22
Stephen Baldwin · American actor and political activistMay 12
Janet Jackson · American singer, songwriter, dancer and actressMay 16
Lisa Edelstein · American actressMay 21
Eric Cantona · French footballer and actorMay 24
Helena Bonham Carter · British actressMay 26
Faure Gnassingbé · Togolese politicianJune 6
Grigori Perelman · Russian mathematicianJune 13
Dikembe Mutombo · Congolese-American basketball playerJune 25
J. J. Abrams · American filmmakerJune 27
John Cusack · American actor, producer, and screenwriterJune 28
Mike Tyson · American boxer and media personalityJune 30
Matthew Fox · American actorJuly 14
Enrique Peña Nieto · 64th President of MexicoJuly 20
Anna Rita Del Piano · Italian actress and theater directorJuly 26
James Gunn · American screenwriter and filmmakerAugust 5
André Sogliuzzo · American voice actorAugust 10
Halle Berry · American actressAugust 14
Enrico Letta · Italian politicianAugust 20
Salma Hayek · Mexican and American actressSeptember 2
Adam Sandler · American actor and comedianSeptember 9
Anousheh Ansari · Iranian-American engineer and entrepreneurSeptember 12
George Weah · President of Liberia from 2018 to 2024October 1
David Cameron · Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016October 9
Carolyn Bertozzi · American chemistOctober 10
Bai Ling · Chinese-American actressOctober 10
Luke Perry · American actorOctober 11
Jon Favreau · American actor and filmmakerOctober 19
Roman Abramovich · Russian-Israeli oligarch and politicianOctober 24
Zoran Milanović · President of Croatia since 2020October 30
David Schwimmer · American actorNovember 2
Gordon Ramsay · British chef, restaurateur, and television personalityNovember 8
Benedicta Boccoli · Italian theater and movie actressNovember 11
Jeff Buckley · American musicianNovember 17
Sophie Marceau · French actressNovember 17
Vincent Cassel · French actorNovember 23
Sinéad O'Connor · Irish singer-songwriterDecember 8
Kirsten Gillibrand · American politicianDecember 9
Helle Thorning-Schmidt · Danish retired politician, former Prime Minister of DenmarkDecember 14
Kiefer Sutherland · British-Canadian actorDecember 21
Masahiro Fukuda · Japanese association football playerDecember 27
Maddie Taylor · American voice actressDecember 31

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