1970s Baby Names

8,079 names were given to children in the United States between 1970 and 1979, ranked below by how many.

A name's place is its total across those ten years. Names that appear in only some of the decade say so, because a name recorded once is a different fact from one recorded every year.

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Rankings for

#20,784
Prakash
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,785
Tyvon
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,786
Warden
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,790
Damico
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,791
Wandell
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,794
Tobius
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,796
Mansour
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,798
Esgar
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,805
Elray
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,808
Antero
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,813
Dierre
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,814
Jesses
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,815
Tyrick
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,823
Duvon
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,825
Warnell
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,828
Buell
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,832
Kierre
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,834
Quartez
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,835
Jimy
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,843
Givon
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,844
Jameison
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,847
Tarrick
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,849
Landrum
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,852
Doak
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,853
Trek
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,859
Kaare
10 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#20,860
Derec
10 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#20,861
Butler
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,862
Shamal
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,863
Neiman
10 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#20,865
Ahmon
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,867
Eliel
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,869
Genard
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,874
Atsushi
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,880
Mattias
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,882
Legrande
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,884
Andris
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,886
Jaamal
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,887
Patterson
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,888
Zacheriah
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,889
Braeden
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,890
Tanay
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,897
Jovanny
10 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#20,898
Kalim
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,899
Hewitt
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,901
Broch
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,903
Cassell
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,907
Melbourne
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years

What Made a 1970s Name

Children in the United States were registered with it between 1970 and 1979. A name's position here is how many of them were.

Why Some Names Only Cover Part of the Decade

A name that appears in three of the ten years either arrived partway through or faded out — and either is more interesting than the total on its own. The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.

Where to Go Next

Open any name to see its full curve — most of these have a hundred and forty years of it. Or compare the ends of the same measurement: the most popular names now and the rarest.