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

#12,727
Griff
44 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,729
Trung
44 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,737
Zeferino
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,738
Nicodemus
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,739
Johnthomas
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,740
Hari
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,753
Tomy
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,755
Rahmel
43 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,757
Darral
43 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,758
Lukus
43 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,767
Shepard
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,771
Wright
43 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,772
Prashant
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,774
Jerimey
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,776
Damieon
43 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,780
Bartlett
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,781
Stefanos
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,784
Petro
43 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,785
Aurelius
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,786
Jams
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,787
Alphonza
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,796
Jaquan
43 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,797
Deshane
43 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,799
Bao
43 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,802
Angelito
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,804
Michall
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,806
Adolf
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,808
Kain
43 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,814
Almon
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,816
Banjamin
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,820
Hilbert
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,823
Cheskel
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,826
Tae
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,840
Lonney
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,845
Abu
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,849
Andras
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,851
Demetreus
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,852
Primo
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,856
Tyon
43 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,858
Nnamdi
43 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,859
Adaryll
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,861
Fleming
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,864
Refujio
42 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,868
Kwaku
42 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,870
Zalmen
42 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,873
Greig
42 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,876
Igor
42 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,878
Shadeed
42 in the 1970s 3 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.