The Popularity of John as a Baby Name: 1880-2012

The #1 name for 44 years:  1880-1923.

#1 song for 5 weeks in late 1961 on the Billboard Hot 100.


In the top 10 for 108 years:  1880-1986, 1991.

#1 for 2 weeks in April 1962.


There were 16 boys named John, out of a total of 195, in the Warren Area High School class of 1968.

1. John Asp
2. John Bailey
3. John Dickey
4. John Erickson
5. John Foreman
6. John Gardner
7. John Gross
8. John Harper (probably the most successful of this group)
9. John Hornstrom
10. John Kent
11. John Mahan
12. John McCurdy
13. John Nelson
14. John Seastead
15. John Tillard
16. John Young

Reached #7 in July 1962.

"I want a brave man, I want a cave man."

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