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

#16,446
Moon
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,461
Hartley
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,480
Crimson
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,481
Salah
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,491
Panya
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,502
Dallis
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,531
Kele
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,538
Chea
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,579
Ako
22 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,586
Deri
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,608
Laroyce
22 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,639
Darlin
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,648
Deshay
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,655
Averill
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,663
Kamryn
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,667
Rakhi
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,673
Roe
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,684
Egypt
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,709
Zollie
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,711
Lavonn
21 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#16,736
Anu
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,763
Kashka
21 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#16,768
Tayari
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,776
Bray
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,828
Pearce
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,834
Renn
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,841
Colie
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,848
Atlantis
21 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#16,850
Nanda
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,863
Lemoyne
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,864
Shalen
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,866
Lawrie
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,880
Jonnell
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,884
Adisa
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,887
Rudell
20 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,892
Tane
20 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,906
Lalaina
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,923
Jourdan
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,942
Terrice
20 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,993
Leonce
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,996
Monserrate
20 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,997
Redell
20 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#17,003
Arti
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,009
Ilya
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,023
Quinlan
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,024
Acey
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,046
Kimothy
20 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#17,081
Kona
20 in the 1970s 3 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.