1970s Baby Names

2,155 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

#7,822
Ashante
110 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#7,838
Raja
109 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#7,851
Renny
109 in the 1970s
#7,856
Josey
109 in the 1970s 8 of 10 years
#7,858
Kem
109 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#7,879
Bliss
108 in the 1970s
#7,892
Danon
108 in the 1970s
#7,898
Cantrell
108 in the 1970s 8 of 10 years
#7,902
Moana
108 in the 1970s
#7,915
Elzie
108 in the 1970s
#7,921
Latrelle
108 in the 1970s
#7,937
Olanda
107 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#7,940
Terre
107 in the 1970s
#7,951
Avon
107 in the 1970s
#7,954
Rion
107 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#7,961
De
107 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#7,969
Levern
106 in the 1970s
#8,022
Corinthian
105 in the 1970s 8 of 10 years
#8,035
Carlis
105 in the 1970s
#8,053
Daris
105 in the 1970s
#8,055
Sonnie
105 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#8,065
Akira
104 in the 1970s 8 of 10 years
#8,078
Chawn
104 in the 1970s
#8,086
Rudi
104 in the 1970s
#8,095
Dung
104 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#8,104
Shawnn
104 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#8,106
Sung
104 in the 1970s
#8,107
Carlas
104 in the 1970s
#8,114
Angell
104 in the 1970s
#8,154
Lean
102 in the 1970s
#8,178
Demaris
102 in the 1970s
#8,192
Indra
102 in the 1970s
#8,196
Kayle
102 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#8,215
Darcell
101 in the 1970s
#8,223
Tanaka
101 in the 1970s 8 of 10 years
#8,229
Erice
101 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#8,238
Tarin
100 in the 1970s 8 of 10 years
#8,261
Laren
100 in the 1970s
#8,271
Markee
100 in the 1970s
#8,299
Camile
99 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#8,301
Tallie
99 in the 1970s 8 of 10 years
#8,314
Hedy
99 in the 1970s
#8,342
Boe
99 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#8,355
Taji
98 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#8,367
Ta
98 in the 1970s 9 of 10 years
#8,373
Kalin
98 in the 1970s
#8,377
Landy
98 in the 1970s
#8,385
Shai
98 in the 1970s

What made a 1970s name

Nothing about the sound of it. A name is on this page because children in the United States were registered with it between 1970 and 1979, and its position is simply how many. Every list of "1970s names" you will find elsewhere is somebody's sense of the period; this one is the register.

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.