Top NZ Baby Names of 1932

Margaret (775) and John (893) were New Zealand's most registered names in 1932. Below are the top 50 girls' and boys' names for the year. See the whole 1930s for context.

Top 50 girls' names

  1. 1Margaret775
  2. 2Shirley333
  3. 3Patricia327
  4. 4Joan287
  5. 5Mary282
  6. 6Dorothy227
  7. 7Barbara222
  8. 8Betty214
  9. 9Elizabeth204
  10. 10June183
  11. 11Valerie173
  12. 12Maureen166
  13. 13Jean160
  14. 14Marie160
  15. 15Joyce150
  16. 16Beverley146
  17. 17Kathleen138
  18. 18Doreen134
  19. 19Helen129
  20. 20Audrey124
  21. 21Nancy112
  22. 22Eileen111
  23. 23Ngaire111
  24. 24Pamela110
  25. 25Colleen109
  26. 26Dawn96
  27. 27Pauline91
  28. 28Judith86
  29. 29Marjorie86
  30. 30Daphne85
  31. 31Norma81
  32. 32Joy79
  33. 33Noeline77
  34. 34Janet76
  35. 35Lois73
  36. 36Nola72
  37. 37Ruth72
  38. 38Elaine71
  39. 39Fay71
  40. 40Phyllis71
  41. 41Frances70
  42. 42Lorna69
  43. 43Thelma66
  44. 44Heather65
  45. 45Marion65
  46. 46Anne60
  47. 47Gladys58
  48. 48Olive58
  49. 49Evelyn57
  50. 50Catherine56

Top 50 boys' names

  1. 1John893
  2. 2William548
  3. 3Robert437
  4. 4James416
  5. 5David327
  6. 6Brian310
  7. 7Peter309
  8. 8Donald302
  9. 9Ronald301
  10. 10Raymond275
  11. 11Ian271
  12. 12George226
  13. 13Kenneth198
  14. 14Colin197
  15. 15Thomas188
  16. 16Douglas168
  17. 17Bruce152
  18. 18Trevor147
  19. 19Edward143
  20. 20Alan140
  21. 21Gordon139
  22. 22Graham135
  23. 23Arthur134
  24. 24Charles134
  25. 25Keith133
  26. 26Barry131
  27. 27Leslie131
  28. 28Richard130
  29. 29Allan117
  30. 30Maurice116
  31. 31Norman114
  32. 32Albert101
  33. 33Eric101
  34. 34Ivan98
  35. 35Noel95
  36. 36Desmond94
  37. 37Graeme93
  38. 38Rex93
  39. 39Mervyn89
  40. 40Francis86
  41. 41Patrick86
  42. 42Frederick78
  43. 43Stanley78
  44. 44Henry76
  45. 45Murray76
  46. 46Joseph73
  47. 47Neil73
  48. 48Michael72
  49. 49Leonard71
  50. 50Alfred69

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.