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

#19,940
Loey
11 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#19,949
Yonah
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,951
Elois
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,956
Lundy
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,966
Divine
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,970
Jong
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#19,987
Xuan
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,000
Kaylan
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,011
Roann
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,014
Arsha
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,038
Perryn
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,043
Myrl
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,045
Kippie
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,048
Kesley
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,082
Kellis
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,097
Tallis
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,117
Cloyce
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,161
Donie
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,168
Marvelle
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,169
Carrell
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,182
Shalamar
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,186
Doyne
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,205
Rue
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,212
Maciel
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,223
Fortune
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,229
Maurya
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,257
Wander
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,259
Clois
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,260
Jernell
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,265
Keonta
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,269
Carnie
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,276
Magic
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,277
Joss
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,292
Nemiah
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,297
Romelle
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,324
Senna
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,350
Nilam
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,356
Bentura
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,364
Demarie
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,403
Atari
10 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#20,408
Danila
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,426
Tash
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,434
Tanay
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,440
Jacquin
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,445
Clydell
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,450
Channin
10 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#20,468
Dare
10 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,471
Dondrea
10 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.