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

#12,516
Estel
45 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,532
Aiko
45 in the 1970s 8 of 10 years
#12,545
Shah
45 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,550
Eris
45 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,559
Min
45 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,591
Ha
45 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,595
Korby
45 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,608
Selby
45 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,609
Georgi
45 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,617
Joda
45 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,620
Shuron
44 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,656
Shell
44 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,677
Nguyen
44 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,714
Estell
44 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,716
Mikele
44 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,728
Shy
44 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,746
Onnie
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,761
Tae
43 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,765
Auburn
43 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,809
Bao
43 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,821
Osha
43 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,845
Graylin
43 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,847
Jontue
43 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#12,849
Teran
43 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,876
Tran
42 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,902
Collie
42 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,911
Shiron
42 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,918
Currie
42 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#12,953
Weslie
42 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,954
Yona
42 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#12,955
Shi
42 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,958
Carrey
42 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#12,961
Frenchie
42 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#12,975
March
42 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,008
Amor
41 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,020
Khristian
41 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,024
Shondale
41 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,036
Janny
41 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,040
Ajene
41 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,058
Tedi
41 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,080
Ori
41 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,092
Breeze
41 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,100
Haile
41 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,104
Cheney
41 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,106
Darrelle
41 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#13,138
Coren
41 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,140
Terrin
41 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,143
Tishawn
40 in the 1970s 5 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.