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

#17,740
Aven
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,763
Larren
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,773
Hillory
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,783
Lynel
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,791
Lennell
17 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#17,793
Mykal
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,812
Kyri
17 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#17,813
Arrow
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,827
Nike
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,831
Elgie
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,867
Tobbie
17 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#17,871
Macheal
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,882
Koree
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,893
Lyric
17 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#17,898
Vivan
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,940
Wallis
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,949
Shamell
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,967
Kene
17 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#17,968
Lovelle
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,981
Apurva
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#17,990
Merrit
17 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,005
Chappell
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,017
Amen
17 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,030
Rendall
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,041
Mechel
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,042
Keyonta
16 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,045
Cobie
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,084
Asante
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,096
Jia
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,097
Tarren
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,098
Delyn
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,099
Ravinder
16 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,101
Tian
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,137
Carmie
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,139
Keagan
16 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,145
Abiola
16 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,165
Ti
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,171
Juel
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,186
Pele
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,193
Ceri
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,205
Riza
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,242
Joddie
16 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,259
Arliss
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,264
Chene
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,270
Carlan
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,280
Luciann
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,287
Chey
16 in the 1970s 3 of 10 years
#18,292
Delone
16 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.