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The earliest state lists are from 1960, so the names that were popular in the fifties wouldn't be much different from those. The SSA doesn't have separate lists based on ethnicity, but again, back then there wasn't a huge difference. So-called "black names" didn't really get to be a thing till the seventies, near as I can tell, so I wouldn't expect to see an Ebony or a Shaniqua or an Imani from the 1950s. I'd expect ames like Mary, Deborah, Sandra, Linda, Gloria, Charlene, Patricia, Wanda, Yolanda, Anita and Jacqueline/Jackie.

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