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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#1,275Blair Blair is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "plain" or "field."2,103 in the 1970s
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#1,308Sunny Sunny is a unisex name taken from the English word, from the Old English sunne.2,005 in the 1970s
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#1,357Quinn Quinn is a name of Irish origin, anglicized from Ó Cuinn, meaning "descendant of Conn."1,873 in the 1970s
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#1,868Denver Denver is a unisex name of English origin meaning "the Danes' crossing".1,078 in the 1970s
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 The statistics offices do not publish names given to very few children in a year, so a gap can also mean the count dropped below the threshold rather than to nothing.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.