Seventies Boy Names

The names of the 1970s. Close enough that most people naming babies now grew up surrounded by them, which is exactly why they read as dated rather than as anything else — the hundred-year rule has another fifty years to run on these.

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21 names, most popular first in the United States

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Jeremy Jeremy is a boy's name, the medieval English form of Jeremiah, from a Hebrew name generally read as God will exalt.
Hebrew #292 in US
Brian Brian is a boy's name of Irish origin whose meaning is unsettled — noble and high are both proposed, and neither is secure.
Irish #339 in US
Damon Damon means one who tames, and the story attached to it is about friendship — Damon and Pythias each offered to die in the other's place, which persuaded a tyrant to release them both.
Greek #501 in US
Troy Troy is a boy's name with two independent sources — an Irish surname meaning foot soldier, and the ancient city.
Irish #533 in US
Scott Scott is a boy's name meaning a Scot, from the surname given to people from Scotland.
Scottish #534 in US
Jaime Jaime is 41 percent female on record, one of the most divided names on this site — Spanish reads it as James, and English hears it as a spelling of Jamie.
Spanish #657 in US
Shawn Shawn is a boy's name, the phonetic American respelling of the Irish Seán, which is itself the Irish form of John.
Irish #681 in US
Lance Lance does not mean a spear.
French #862 in US
Kristopher Kristopher means Christ-bearer, and the legend built the meaning backward — a giant who carried a child across a river turned out to be carrying Christ, which is the story explaining the name.
English #1,188 in US
Tyrone Tyrone means Eoghan's land, an Irish county, and it reached American use almost entirely through one actor — Tyrone Power, whose grandfather took the name from the county his family came from.
Irish #1,391 in US
Jermaine Jermaine means brother, and it is French rather than Germanic — germain is the ordinary word for a full brother, and it has nothing to do with Germany despite appearances.
French #1,494 in US
Brent Brent means burned land, from ground cleared by fire — a place name recording a specific agricultural practice rather than a hill or a holy site, which are the two readings usually offered for it.
English #1,510 in US
Chad Chad is a boy's name from a seventh-century English saint, and it has since become an American internet stereotype and, separately, the name of a country and a disputed ballot.
English #1,700 in US
Roderick Roderick means famous ruler, and its most consequential bearer lost a country — Roderic was the last Visigothic king of Spain, defeated in 711 by the Arab and Berber force that then held most of the peninsula for centuries.
German #1,745 in US
Shaun Shaun spells the Irish Seán phonetically for English readers, and it is the same name as John — the Irish took it from Norman French Jehan rather than directly from Latin, which is why it sounds nothing like John.
Irish #1,943 in US
Yannick Yannick is Breton, meaning God is gracious, and the -ick ending is a Breton diminutive rather than a French one — so the name reads as little John in a Brittonic language, not a Romance one.
Breton #5,068 in US
Yann Yann is the Breton John, and Brittany is the reason it exists — Britons fleeing the Anglo-Saxons carried a Brittonic language to Armorica, so Yann is closer kin to Welsh Ioan than to French Jean.
Breton #7,381 in US
Fabrice Fabrice means craftsman, from the Latin for a worker in hard materials — the same root that gives us fabric, fabricate and forge.
French #8,289 in US
Arnaud Arnaud means eagle-power, built from two Germanic words, and it is the French form of the name English knows as Arnold.
French 139,847 births
Ludovic Ludovic means famous in battle, and it is the same name as Louis and Ludwig — eighteen French kings and the composer all carry one Germanic compound in different national dress.
French 131,146 births
Devrin Devrin is a rare American boy's name of disputed origin.
Disputed 87 births

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