Seventies 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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3 names, rare — 25 to 99 a year, in United States

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Jody Jody serves Judith, Joseph and Jude at once, which is why it is 64 percent female rather than resolving to one side — three unrelated parents pulling in different directions.
English 56 in 2025
Leigh Leigh means a woodland clearing, and the same word is hiding at the end of dozens of modern names — the -leigh in Kayleigh and Ashlyn's cousins is this word, borrowed for its sound rather than its sense.
English 31 in 2025
Lesley Lesley is the Scottish spelling and Scotland proves it — a peak of 341 births there in 1974, far above what the country's size would predict against an American high of 981.
Scottish 30 in 2025

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A style is our reading of a name. A decade is the register — the names children were actually given, in order, with the counts.

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