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

#17,782
Lennell
17 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#17,787
Lyric
17 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#17,841
Merrit
17 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#17,844
Kehinde
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,852
Kore
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,854
Amen
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,864
Kene
17 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#17,908
Nike
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,927
Chappell
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,932
Vivan
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,937
Tobbie
17 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#17,949
Larren
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,971
Macheal
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,981
Koree
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,993
Shamell
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,998
Arrow
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,005
Kyri
17 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,032
Delyn
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,068
Ceri
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,070
Pearson
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,071
Pele
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,094
Carlan
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,108
Texas
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,148
Keagan
16 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,150
Chey
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,195
Windsor
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,196
Ti
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,210
Cobie
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,211
Tarren
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,230
Delone
16 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,272
Pace
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,274
Chene
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,287
Ravinder
16 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,293
Luciann
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,306
Rendall
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,307
Renel
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,313
Carmie
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,327
Abiola
16 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,328
Joddie
16 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,356
Keyonta
16 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,375
Dai
15 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,387
Osceola
15 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,398
Kamy
15 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,408
Casy
15 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,411
Bowie
15 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,422
Tamari
15 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,424
Hawley
15 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,436
Donne
15 in the 1970s 2 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.