100 Baby Names That Dominated the 1970s
By Joni Sweet, Stacker News
AND Joseph Bien-Kahn, Stacker News
On 3/4/21 at 8:00 PM EST
Think about the last time you met a Pamela, a Shannon, or someone who introduced themselves as Shad. Were they between 40 and 50 years old? That s no coincidence. While these names may have fallen out of the mainstream for newborns, they were some of the most popular names in the 1970s. You couldn t scroll through a homeroom attendance sheet at a school without coming across at least a few of these names.
Names can tell the story of a generation. To learn more about the culture of the 1970s, Stacker took a look at data from the Social Security Administration Baby Names Database from 2019 to uncover the decade s top 50 names for boys and girls. Each name s current rank is also included to determine whether it s stayed trendy or has gone the way of bell-bottoms.
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