Top NZ Baby Names of 1935

Margaret (693) and John (859) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1935. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1930s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Margaret693
  2. 2Shirley456
  3. 3Patricia344
  4. 4Mary269
  5. 5Joan250
  6. 6Barbara244
  7. 7Dorothy211
  8. 8Beverley208
  9. 9Maureen178
  10. 10Judith176
  11. 11Elizabeth175
  12. 12Valerie167
  13. 13Pamela143
  14. 14Marie139
  15. 15Kathleen137
  16. 16Helen135
  17. 17Jean132
  18. 18Betty126
  19. 19Doreen124
  20. 20June119
  21. 21Colleen114
  22. 22Janet113
  23. 23Audrey106
  24. 24Joyce97
  25. 25Yvonne92
  26. 26Heather90
  27. 27Anne87
  28. 28Ngaire86
  29. 29Frances84
  30. 30Noeline84
  31. 31Marion83
  32. 32Dawn82
  33. 33Nancy82
  34. 34Lois81
  35. 35Elaine77
  36. 36Alison72
  37. 37Eileen71
  38. 38Nola70
  39. 39Jennifer67
  40. 40Jocelyn64
  41. 41Marjorie64
  42. 42Joy63
  43. 43Norma63
  44. 44Pauline62
  45. 45Beryl61
  46. 46Janice60
  47. 47Daphne59
  48. 48Lorraine59
  49. 49Ruth59
  50. 50Ann58

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John859
  2. 2William476
  3. 3Peter423
  4. 4David399
  5. 5Robert384
  6. 6James372
  7. 7Brian335
  8. 8Ronald311
  9. 9Donald292
  10. 10Ian245
  11. 11Barry226
  12. 12Raymond222
  13. 13Graham205
  14. 14Colin193
  15. 15George184
  16. 16Thomas176
  17. 17Kenneth170
  18. 18Bruce167
  19. 19Alan166
  20. 20Richard156
  21. 21Trevor153
  22. 22Michael140
  23. 23Leslie131
  24. 24Charles125
  25. 25Graeme123
  26. 26Gordon121
  27. 27Keith119
  28. 28Edward117
  29. 29Maurice114
  30. 30Arthur113
  31. 31Douglas105
  32. 32Allan98
  33. 33Noel97
  34. 34Murray96
  35. 35Eric88
  36. 36Kevin84
  37. 37Desmond83
  38. 38Patrick83
  39. 39Mervyn80
  40. 40Alexander77
  41. 41Albert75
  42. 42Francis75
  43. 43Frederick75
  44. 44Leonard74
  45. 45Malcolm74
  46. 46Joseph70
  47. 47Rex70
  48. 48Russell69
  49. 49Neil68
  50. 50Bryan66

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.