Popular Names in New Zealand

Information from the New Zealand Government
Boys · Girls
Boys
Rank Name Times +/-
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Athol
27 -10
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Gilbert
27 -19
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Howard
27 -10
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Lewis
27 -4
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Murray
27 -4
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Vernon
27 new
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Horace
29 new
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Maxwell
29 -16
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Ralph
29 -19
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Selwyn
30 -9
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Anthony
31 new
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Kevin
31 new
91.
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Terence
31 -5
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Wallace
31 -5
84.
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Basil
34 +16
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Daniel
34 +16
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Lionel
34 -4
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Malcolm
34 -9
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Neville
34 +5
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Percy
34 -21
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Wilfred
34 -15
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Arnold
35 +6
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Leo
36 -5
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Lloyd
38 +14
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Claude
39 +22
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Hector
39 +2
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Neil
39 +2
76.
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Graham
40 -2
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Stuart
40 +4
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Sidney
41 +2
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Allen
42 -9
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Samuel
42 -1
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Edwin
45 -5
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Michael
45 +1
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Philip
46 0
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Gerald
49 +21
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Laurence
49 new
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Cecil
50 -6
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Rex
50 +5
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Geoffrey
53 +1
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Sydney
53 -6
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Russell
57 +12
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Clarence
58 -6
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Mervyn
61 0
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Victor
61 -8
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Andrew
63 +7
57.
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Brian
66 +2
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Harry
66 -3
56.
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Hugh
67 +12
54.
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Clifford
68 -5
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Cyril
68 +3
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Bernard
72 +7
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Owen
79 -2
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Lawrence
83 +4
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Reginald
84 -6
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Bruce
87 +2
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Desmond
87 0
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Trevor
91 0
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Patrick
97 -5
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Ivan
100 +8
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Herbert
104 -6
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Joseph
106 -4
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Roy
108 +3
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Noel
119 +2
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Peter
121 +5
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Frank
123 +3
37.
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Leonard
128 -9
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Walter
128 -5
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Alexander
135 -1
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Alfred
138 -8
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Alan
139 +3
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Ernest
141 +1
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Keith
143 +8
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Stanley
143 -6
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Colin
150 +2
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Maurice
150 +7
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Richard
154 +1
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Jack
164 -6
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Allan
165 +4
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Henry
165 +1
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Albert
171 -5
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Ian
172 +10
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Harold
173 0
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Frederick
181 -1
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Norman
181 +3
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Eric
186 -4
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David
192 0
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Francis
192 +1
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Edward
199 -6
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Donald
213 +9
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Arthur
216 -6
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Gordon
218 +4
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Leslie
218 +1
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Douglas
223 0
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Kenneth
230 +4
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Charles
236 0
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Raymond
242 +4
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Ronald
295 0
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Thomas
333 0
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George
358 0
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Robert
500 0
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James
544 0
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William
742 0
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John
979 0
Girls
Rank Name Times +/-
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Ella
28 new
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Esther
28 -5
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Gloria
30 new
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Olga
30 -32
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Ada
31 -14
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Rose
31 +2
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Christina
32 -8
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Elva
32 new
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Lillian
33 -7
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Ida
34 -2
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Valerie
36 -9
87.
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Emily
37 -12
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Eunice
37 -10
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Josephine
37 -2
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Eva
38 -13
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Pearl
38 -2
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Freda
39 -13
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May
39 -7
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Janet
40 +2
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Pauline
40 new
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Molly
41 0
79.
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Sylvia
42 -26
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Mabel
45 -8
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Enid
47 -8
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Joy
47 +22
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Lois
47 +17
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Lucy
47 +13
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Marjory
47 +22
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Noeline
47 +27
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Mona
48 +1
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Dulcie
49 -3
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Alma
51 -11
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Beatrice
54 +1
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Isabel
54 +13
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Myra
54 new
65.
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Peggy
55 +9
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Gwendoline
57 -2
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Lilian
58 +14
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Rona
61 -4
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Agnes
62 -12
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Ruby
62 +9
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Hilda
65 +7
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Myrtle
65 -9
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Beryl
66 -4
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Ngaire
66 -1
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Constance
68 +8
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Grace
68 +5
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Rita
68 +4
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Barbara
70 +12
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Marion
70 +2
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Iris
73 -12
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Ivy
74 -3
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Nola
77 +2
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Catherine
78 -18
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Violet
79 -12
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Lorna
80 0
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Jessie
81 -9
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Muriel
83 0
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Ruth
83 -2
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Edith
85 -9
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Ellen
91 +7
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Evelyn
93 0
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Vera
93 +13
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Winifred
94 -10
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Ethel
95 +5
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Frances
96 +9
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Daphne
107 +8
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Helen
108 -5
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Elsie
109 -6
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Marie
111 +7
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Shirley
111 +26
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Alice
113 -4
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Norma
114 +8
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Florence
115 -7
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Doreen
118 -3
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Annie
120 -4
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Hazel
123 +7
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Irene
128 +10
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Audrey
132 +8
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Olive
144 +1
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Edna
148 -4
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Thelma
148 0
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Gladys
151 -1
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Doris
153 -5
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Marjorie
159 +2
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Mavis
161 -3
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Elizabeth
164 -2
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Nancy
167 +2
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June
180 +12
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Eileen
181 -1
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Phyllis
190 -1
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Patricia
210 +2
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Betty
225 -1
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Kathleen
248 +1
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Jean
305 0
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Dorothy
381 -1
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Joyce
392 +1
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Joan
438 0
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Mary
454 0
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Margaret
570 0