Top NZ Baby Names of 1930

Margaret (664) and John (881) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1930. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1930s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Margaret664
  2. 2Shirley391
  3. 3Patricia382
  4. 4Mary348
  5. 5Betty292
  6. 6Joan270
  7. 7Dorothy256
  8. 8June224
  9. 9Elizabeth220
  10. 10Joyce207
  11. 11Valerie193
  12. 12Jean190
  13. 13Barbara181
  14. 14Marie166
  15. 15Doreen165
  16. 16Kathleen160
  17. 17Audrey146
  18. 18Ngaire145
  19. 19Nancy127
  20. 20Eileen125
  21. 21Helen122
  22. 22Daphne118
  23. 23Beverley115
  24. 24Maureen115
  25. 25Norma115
  26. 26Noeline111
  27. 27Phyllis109
  28. 28Colleen106
  29. 29Marjorie101
  30. 30Dawn100
  31. 31Mavis100
  32. 32Pauline93
  33. 33Lois92
  34. 34Pamela88
  35. 35Irene82
  36. 36Lorna75
  37. 37Ruth75
  38. 38Fay74
  39. 39Nola73
  40. 40Thelma73
  41. 41Catherine69
  42. 42Edna69
  43. 43Frances69
  44. 44Joy69
  45. 45Hazel67
  46. 46Heather67
  47. 47Olive65
  48. 48Doris64
  49. 49Elaine64
  50. 50Jocelyn64

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John881
  2. 2William591
  3. 3James480
  4. 4Robert473
  5. 5Ronald354
  6. 6Peter297
  7. 7David285
  8. 8Brian282
  9. 9Donald281
  10. 10Raymond275
  11. 11Ian271
  12. 12Thomas262
  13. 13George236
  14. 14Kenneth220
  15. 15Colin209
  16. 16Gordon173
  17. 17Keith171
  18. 18Leslie170
  19. 19Bruce165
  20. 20Edward163
  21. 21Douglas162
  22. 22Alan161
  23. 23Maurice160
  24. 24Charles158
  25. 25Allan154
  26. 26Arthur146
  27. 27Noel146
  28. 28Trevor144
  29. 29Richard136
  30. 30Desmond132
  31. 31Norman125
  32. 32Graham124
  33. 33Eric122
  34. 34Francis115
  35. 35Jack104
  36. 36Walter104
  37. 37Stanley103
  38. 38Albert97
  39. 39Murray91
  40. 40Leonard89
  41. 41Frederick87
  42. 42Ivan85
  43. 43Alfred84
  44. 44Alexander83
  45. 45Harold83
  46. 46Barry82
  47. 47Patrick81
  48. 48Ernest78
  49. 49Bernard77
  50. 50Joseph76

About this data: figures come from Department of Internal Affairs birth registrations for 1954-2025. The DIA only publishes a name for a given year when at least 10 babies were registered with it, so rarer names - and rarer spellings - are missing entirely, and a name can drop out of the record in quieter years. Spelling variants are counted separately, and counts reflect first names as registered.