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

#22,129
Anet
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,130
Dola
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,131
Yittel
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,132
Tin
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,133
Yeshaya
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,134
Icie
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,135
Shevy
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,136
Obbie
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,137
Latita
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,138
Terrylynn
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,139
Brewster
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,140
Nizhoni
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,141
Ivori
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,142
Celissa
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,143
Olufunke
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,144
Nickolette
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,145
Soma
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,146
Yohana
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,147
Cyrano
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,148
Nishan
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,149
Ceanna
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,150
Judyth
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,151
Nazar
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,152
Arel
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,153
Erique
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,154
Volney
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,155
Shneur
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,156
Ronia
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,157
Carshena
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,158
Cyndra
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,159
Webber
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,160
Rainelle
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,161
Charitee
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,162
Shenekia
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,163
Brei
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,164
Mikeya
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,165
Kwon
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,166
Juliah
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,167
Mazi
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,168
Sherren
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,169
Raneka
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,170
Bon
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,171
Dalphine
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,172
Wandalee
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,173
Samiya
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,174
Meliah
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,175
Tris
6 in the 1970s 1 of 10 years
#22,176
Dantae
6 in the 1970s 1 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.