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

#13,588
Zephaniah
37 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,589
Kayse
37 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,607
Romney
37 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,632
Oni
37 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,643
Ihsan
37 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,653
Wonder
37 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,657
Choya
37 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,663
Seena
37 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,668
Gemini
37 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,689
Khanh
37 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,693
Keller
37 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,769
Luv
36 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,785
Ozie
36 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,786
Dannel
36 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,818
Kippy
36 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,852
Ondra
36 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,861
Fayette
36 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,908
Trine
35 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,920
Kaylon
35 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,921
Lynden
35 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,978
Kitt
35 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,986
Khaalis
35 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#13,994
Ly
35 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,005
Shanga
35 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#14,054
Dorey
34 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#14,059
Jari
34 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#14,068
Roshun
34 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,118
Jung
34 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#14,120
Murl
34 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#14,148
Nazareth
34 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#14,161
Jorden
34 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,172
Jerre
34 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#14,177
Olayinka
34 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,189
Ren
33 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,198
Domenique
33 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,202
Kodie
33 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#14,245
Jonquil
33 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,251
Uhuru
33 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#14,252
Rivers
33 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,254
Rayme
33 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#14,255
Mickell
33 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,257
Alyn
33 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,269
Cayle
33 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,306
Xan
33 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#14,309
Elham
33 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#14,332
Karem
33 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,342
Carle
33 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#14,365
Shenan
32 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.