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

#21,636
Chen
7 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,648
Harlie
7 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,660
Jemiah
7 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,667
Lanis
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,669
Jaryn
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,679
Bergen
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,680
Kayren
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,681
Lovis
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,682
Eppie
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,702
Garyn
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,719
Lakota
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,735
Lerin
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,736
Adebola
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,739
Di
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,746
Charlin
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,751
Dennell
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,756
Odia
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,760
Donye
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,772
Chai
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,774
Lenox
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,781
Curlee
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,788
Dwann
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,821
Roi
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,827
Tayler
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,833
Ottie
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,852
Kelechi
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,900
Zephyr
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,917
Jessiah
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,925
Romey
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,944
Melian
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,957
Alexes
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,962
Lenis
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,963
Harsha
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,980
Devery
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,988
Yuma
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,991
Burnette
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#21,998
Tavita
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,002
Bennette
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,019
Khali
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,038
Novel
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,085
Hollace
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,090
Enis
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,102
Harpreet
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,122
Future
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,125
Chade
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,126
Winn
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,132
Johanny
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,143
Alvia
6 in the 1970s 1 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.