1970s Baby Names

1,976 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

#12,883
Frenchie
42 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,893
Tran
42 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,918
Currie
42 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,922
Emmette
42 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,939
Shi
42 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,950
Yona
42 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,954
March
42 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,973
Collie
42 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,993
Shiron
42 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,997
Carrey
42 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,011
Darrelle
41 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#13,021
Ori
41 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,031
Amor
41 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,042
Shondale
41 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,047
Khristian
41 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,051
Tedi
41 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,056
Ajene
41 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,073
Haile
41 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,086
Coren
41 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,091
Breeze
41 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,103
Cheney
41 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,105
Terrin
41 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,124
Cadence
41 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,155
Unborn
40 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#13,157
Marce
40 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,168
Hoa
40 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,180
English
40 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,200
Shawon
40 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#13,245
Stephanne
40 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#13,256
Troi
40 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,257
Tishawn
40 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,259
Yong
40 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,277
Shanne
40 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,337
Covey
39 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,354
Montique
39 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#13,383
Sabre
39 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,391
Shady
39 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#13,427
Spenser
38 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,445
Weslee
38 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,460
Aniko
38 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,485
Nakai
38 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#13,488
Indy
38 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,512
Taiwo
38 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,528
Hart
38 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,543
Jihan
38 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,559
Yasha
38 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,563
Carrington
38 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,578
Murrell
37 in the 1970s 6 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.