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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#11,947
Jaimey
50 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#11,949
Bela
50 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#11,961
Vertis
50 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#11,989
Shonnon
49 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,025
Mykel
49 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,033
Kyrie Kyrie is a unisex name of Greek origin meaning "lord".
49 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,039
Larri
49 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,050
Neco
49 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,060
Maki
49 in the 1970s 8 of 10 years
#12,074
Nature
49 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,100
Briane
49 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,141
Chau
48 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,143
Ji
48 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,145
Troyce
48 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,179
Lorian
48 in the 1970s 8 of 10 years
#12,184
Bandy
48 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,189
Oris
48 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,195
Iram
48 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,196
Abeer
48 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,241
Burnice
47 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,243
Lavoris
47 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,258
Torino
47 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,263
Kimm
47 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,270
Othello
47 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,276
Ascencion
47 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,288
Hani
47 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,290
Jermanie
47 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,298
Rossi
47 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,329
Rye
47 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,346
Wandy
46 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,349
Mikah
46 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,357
Leverne
46 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,377
Kenyotta
46 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,380
Shawndel
46 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,416
Mallie
46 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,429
Mishawn
46 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,443
Senica
46 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,446
Artemis
46 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,447
Adama
46 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,449
Eliah
46 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,457
Mikie
46 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,459
Ngoc
46 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,462
Britain
46 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,463
Bracken
46 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,480
Bren
46 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,494
Chae
45 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,503
Lesslie
45 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,505
Ever
45 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years

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.