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

#18,872
Si
14 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,906
Juda
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,907
Linnell
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,909
Yee
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,913
Anant
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,918
Mana
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,933
Shang
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,944
Damie
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,954
Avian
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,955
Esley
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,960
Michelin
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,972
Marrion
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,993
Derrian
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#18,995
Azriel
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,002
Blessing
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,004
Mishon
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,020
Gean
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,031
Aubra
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,037
Caton
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,047
Earth
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,051
Rael
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,068
Lyndel
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,069
Brookes
13 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#19,086
Azur
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,094
Mandeep
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,098
Doyce
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,102
Cassander
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,113
Kenyell
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,118
Ellington
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,124
Bay
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,141
Jaquel
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,144
Chong
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,151
Aza
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,158
Dior
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,174
Jaleen
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,182
Naphtali
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,193
Marchel
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,194
Femi
13 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,205
Mars
12 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,230
Shantez
12 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,233
Ibis
12 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,240
Tany
12 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,243
Tamba
12 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,244
Camryn
12 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,266
Janus
12 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,315
Natane
12 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,325
Dezi
12 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,334
Mccall
12 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.