Popular Names

🍼 Popular Names of Your Birth Year

The top 10 most popular US baby names — boys and girls — the year you were born, from US Social Security data (1880–2008).

Most popular US names of 1970

👦 Boys

  1. 1Michael
  2. 2James
  3. 3David
  4. 4John
  5. 5Robert
  6. 6Christopher
  7. 7William
  8. 8Brian
  9. 9Mark
  10. 10Richard

👧 Girls

  1. 1Jennifer
  2. 2Lisa
  3. 3Kimberly
  4. 4Michelle
  5. 5Amy
  6. 6Angela
  7. 7Melissa
  8. 8Tammy
  9. 9Mary
  10. 10Tracy
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About this data

Compiled from the US Social Security Administration’s record of names given at birth, showing the most popular names each year. A fact-based look at the names of your era.

※ Based on US SSA data (1880–2008); Japan’s popular names differ. Not fortune-telling. Source: US SSA (via hadley/data-baby-names). About our data