James and Susan were in fact two of the most popular names of the decade. In the age of the baby boom, popular names were traditional and conservative, mirroring the culture of the times. The top 10 ...
The 1950s were the launch pad into the second half of the 20th century. The post-World War II period saw the spark of the ...
In the 1950s, Elvis Presley was at the top of the charts, movie fans were racing out to see epics like Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments and couples who were entering the Baby Boom years were using ...
The decade of the '50s conjures up images of sock hops and hula hoops — and some 1950s names that, like poodle skirts, have fallen out of fashion. This is especially true of baby girl names of the ...
Baby Names That Rocked the 1950s Perhaps no decade in US history conjures up more imagery of All-American idealism than the 1950s. A politically conservative era, the ’50s introduced the world to some ...