1970s Baby Names

25,022 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

#20,113
Lua
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,114
Cuahutemoc
11 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#20,115
Marston
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,116
Rameka
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,117
Tassy
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,118
Ilias
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,119
Salene
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,120
Teneal
11 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#20,121
Marijke
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,122
Sidonia
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,123
Loey
11 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#20,124
Leiana
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,125
Vinicio
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,126
Yance
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,127
Jerianne
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,128
Taramarie
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,129
Ayal
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,130
Satoko
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,131
Amylee
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,132
Santita
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,133
Gennette
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,134
Cotton
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,135
Maciel
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,136
Hassen
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,137
Lundy
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,138
Rahel
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,139
Calandria
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,140
Chanci
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,141
Xuan
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,142
Johnnathan
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,143
Lizza
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,144
Brittainy
11 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#20,145
Shanalee
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,146
Corvin
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,147
Sherrilee
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,148
Jernell
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,149
Markeitha
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,150
Staley
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,151
Jaysa
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,152
Daimeon
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,153
Shavna
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,154
Haynes
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,155
Makeia
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,156
Boban
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,157
Nakida
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,158
Terrius
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,159
Shaunelle
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years
#20,160
Samarah
11 in the 1970s 2 of 10 years

What Made a 1970s Name

Children in the United States were registered with it between 1970 and 1979. A name's position here is how many of them were.

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.