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

#13,165
Marce
40 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,179
Hoa
40 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,184
Yong
40 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,185
Leni
40 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,216
English
40 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,219
Unborn
40 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#13,229
Shawon
40 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#13,244
Troi
40 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,267
Shanne
40 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,271
Stephanne
40 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#13,322
Covey
39 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,338
Sabre
39 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,351
Shady
39 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#13,373
Uchenna
39 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,388
Montique
39 in the 1970s 7 of 10 years
#13,438
Aniko
38 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,449
Janiel
38 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,450
Spenser
38 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,457
Weslee
38 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,479
Nakai
38 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#13,492
Davine
38 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,494
Yasha
38 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,513
Indy
38 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,542
Jihan
38 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,544
Taiwo
38 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,550
Jaki
38 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,560
Amery
38 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,564
Elvie
38 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,565
Carrington
38 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,583
Murrell
37 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,584
Khanh
37 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,624
Criss
37 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,643
Wonder
37 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,650
Choya
37 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,669
Seena
37 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,678
Gemini
37 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,679
Romney
37 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,682
Kayse
37 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,693
Keller
37 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,702
Zephaniah
37 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,741
Kippy
36 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,768
Ozie
36 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,779
Luv
36 in the 1970s 6 of 10 years
#13,789
Ondra
36 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#13,813
Fayette
36 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,867
Dannel
36 in the 1970s 5 of 10 years
#13,888
Shanga
35 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#13,909
Khaalis
35 in the 1970s 2 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.