These Were The Most Popular Baby Names In 1970

Caroline Bologna
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(Photo: Tom Gautier Photography via Getty Images)
(Photo: Tom Gautier Photography via Getty Images)

Baby name popularity lists look pretty similar from year to year, but interesting trends emerge over longer periods of time.

The Social Security Administration’s baby names database reveals which names have fallen off the map over the years, which have risen from obscurity to dominate the charts, and which have ebbed and flowed in different periods.

HuffPost took a look at the data to examine the most popular baby names 50 years ago. While names like James, William, Elizabeth and Amy remain popular today, others like Tammy, Dawn and Craig don’t appear on as many birth certificates half a century later.

Without further ado, here are the 50 most popular baby names for boys and girls born in 1970.

Girls

  1. Jennifer

  2. Lisa

  3. Kimberly

  4. Michelle

  5. Amy

  6. Angela

  7. Melissa

  8. Tammy

  9. Mary

  10. Tracy

  11. Julie

  12. Karen

  13. Laura

  14. Christine

  15. Susan

  16. Dawn

  17. Stephanie

  18. Elizabeth

  19. Heather

  20. Kelly

  21. Tina

  22. Shannon

  23. Lori

  24. Patricia

  25. Cynthia

  26. Pamela

  27. Sandra

  28. Wendy

  29. Rebecca

  30. Nicole

  31. Michele

  32. Donna

  33. Deborah

  34. Teresa

  35. Christina

  36. Denise

  37. Sharon

  38. Linda

  39. Maria

  40. Brenda

  41. Barbara

  42. Stacy

  43. Andrea

  44. Cheryl

  45. Kathleen

  46. Rhonda

  47. Debra

  48. Stacey

  49. Tonya

  50. Nancy

Boys

  1. Michael

  2. James

  3. David

  4. John

  5. Robert

  6. Christopher

  7. William

  8. Brian

  9. Mark

  10. Richard

  11. Jeffrey

  12. Scott

  13. Jason

  14. Kevin

  15. Steven

  16. Joseph

  17. Thomas

  18. Eric

  19. Daniel

  20. Timothy

  21. Charles

  22. Anthony

  23. Paul

  24. Matthew

  25. Kenneth

  26. Gregory

  27. Stephen

  28. Todd

  29. Ronald

  30. Donald

  31. Edward

  32. Andrew

  33. Patrick

  34. Shawn

  35. Gary

  36. Douglas

  37. Sean

  38. Keith

  39. Craig

  40. George

  41. Troy

  42. Jonathan

  43. Larry

  44. Peter

  45. Jerry

  46. Dennis

  47. Bradley

  48. Frank

  49. Raymond

  50. Jeffery

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