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.

All Girls Boys Unisex

Rankings for

#16,445
Dallis
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,449
Leshan
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,515
Kele
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,519
Ako
22 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,520
Kaylen
22 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,554
Deri
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,558
Hartley
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,562
Moon
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,585
Jwan
22 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#16,586
Ala
22 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,607
Laroyce
22 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,608
Derrie
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,610
Crimson
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,635
Arrin
22 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,670
Colie
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,694
Kashka
21 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#16,710
Lavonn
21 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#16,711
Anu
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,717
Averill
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,734
Deshay
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,745
Kamryn
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,752
Egypt
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,762
Shalen
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,767
Lawrie
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,770
Lemoyne
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,782
Atlantis
21 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#16,802
Opie
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,811
Nanda
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,823
Roe
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,837
Rakhi
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,840
Lian Lian is a unisex name with several unrelated sources.
21 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,849
Zollie
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,864
Renn
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,870
Tayari
21 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,879
Acey
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,918
Jourdan
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,930
Arti
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,934
Ilya
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,941
Rudell
20 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,959
Redell
20 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#16,980
Lalaina
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#16,991
Leonce
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,003
Temitope
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,004
Kona
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,006
Tane
20 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#17,007
Kimothy
20 in the 1970s 4 of 10 years
#17,022
Quinlan
20 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,031
Adisa
20 in the 1970s 3 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.