1940s Names for Baby

1940s names. 7 1940s baby names for boys. Displaying for 1940s names 1-7. Amos, Basil, Christopher, Franklin and Sebastian are popular 1940s baby names. Abbott and Yves are uncommon 1940s baby names. Please click on each of these 1940s names for more details, or search for "1940s" for girls.

Abbott ... In the 1940s and early 1950s Bud Abbott served as a straight man to short chubby comedian Lou Costello.

Amos ... perhaps because of lingering negative connotations from the highly politically incorrect radio show "Amos 'n Andy" that was popular in the 1940s and 1950s ...

Basil ... British actor Basil Rathbone played Sherlock Holmes in 14 films in the 1940s ...

Christopher ... Revived in the 1940s by the popularity of A.A ...

Franklin ... Used as homage to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1930s and 1940s ...

Sebastian ... British use since the 1940s may have been influenced by a character in Evelyn Waugh's popular "Brideshead Revisited" ...

Yves ... Familiar since the 1940s due to fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and singer/actor Yves Montand.

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