Top 100 Baby Names for the 1940s
| Rank | Boy Names | Girl Names |
| 1 | James | Mary |
| 2 | Robert | Linda |
| 3 | John | Barbara |
| 4 | William | Patricia |
| 5 | Richard | Carol |
| 6 | David | Sandra |
| 7 | Charles | Nancy |
| 8 | Thomas | Sharon |
| 9 | Michael | Judith |
| 10 | Ronald | Susan |
| 11 | Larry | Betty |
| 12 | Donald | Carolyn |
| 13 | Joseph | Margaret |
| 14 | Gary | Shirley |
| 15 | George | Judy |
| 16 | Kenneth | Karen |
| 17 | Paul | Donna |
| 18 | Edward | Kathleen |
| 19 | Jerry | Joyce |
| 20 | Dennis | Dorothy |
| 21 | Frank | Janet |
| 22 | Daniel | Diane |
| 23 | Raymond | Janice |
| 24 | Roger | Joan |
| 25 | Stephen | Elizabeth |
| 26 | Gerald | Brenda |
| 27 | Walter | Gloria |
| 28 | Harold | Virginia |
| 29 | Steven | Marilyn |
| 30 | Douglas | Martha |
| 31 | Lawrence | Beverly |
| 32 | Terry | Helen |
| 33 | Wayne | Bonnie |
| 34 | Arthur | Ruth |
| 35 | Jack | Frances |
| 36 | Carl | Jean |
| 37 | Henry | Ann |
| 38 | Willie | Phyllis |
| 39 | Bruce | Pamela |
| 40 | Joe | Jane |
| 41 | Peter | Alice |
| 42 | Billy | Peggy |
| 43 | Roy | Cheryl |
| 44 | Ralph | Doris |
| 45 | Anthony | Catherine |
| 46 | Jimmy | Elaine |
| 47 | Albert | Cynthia |
| 48 | Bobby | Marie |
| 49 | Eugene | Lois |
| 50 | Johnny | Connie |
| 51 | Fred | Christine |
| 52 | Harry | Diana |
| 53 | Howard | Gail |
| 54 | Mark | Joanne |
| 55 | Alan | Rose |
| 56 | Louis | Wanda |
| 57 | Philip | Carole |
| 58 | Patrick | Rita |
| 59 | Dale | Charlotte |
| 60 | Danny | Jo |
| 61 | Stanley | Evelyn |
| 62 | Leonard | Geraldine |
| 63 | Timothy | Jacqueline |
| 64 | Gregory | Ellen |
| 65 | Samuel | Sally |
| 66 | Ronnie | Rebecca |
| 67 | Norman | Kathryn |
| 68 | Ernest | Deborah |
| 69 | Russell | Norma |
| 70 | Francis | Suzanne |
| 71 | Melvin | Anna |
| 72 | Earl | Sue |
| 73 | Frederick | Darlene |
| 74 | Allen | Patsy |
| 75 | Bill | Joann |
| 76 | Tommy | Sarah |
| 77 | Phillip | Katherine |
| 78 | Marvin | Paula |
| 79 | Steve | Annie |
| 80 | Don | Louise |
| 81 | Clarence | Roberta |
| 82 | Barry | Sylvia |
| 83 | Glenn | Anne |
| 84 | Jim | Theresa |
| 85 | Eddie | Sheila |
| 86 | Mike | Maria |
| 87 | Andrew | Laura |
| 88 | Jeffrey | Kathy |
| 89 | Leroy | Eileen |
| 90 | Alfred | Marcia |
| 91 | Martin | Rosemary |
| 92 | Lee | Glenda |
| 93 | Tom | Dolores |
| 94 | Ray | Mildred |
| 95 | Herbert | Lorraine |
| 96 | Gene | Marjorie |
| 97 | Bernard | Sherry |
| 98 | Theodore | Kay |
| 99 | Curtis | Anita |
| 100 | Keith | Dianne |