Baby names of 1975

Jennifer and Michael topped the lists in 1975, out of 3,019,218 births recorded across 15,387 different names. That is 0.7% fewer than the 1974 files hold. About 2.8 million of them are alive today.

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Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Jennifer	58,190
2	Amy	32,254
3	Heather	24,301
4	Melissa	24,168
5	Angela	23,361
6	Michelle	22,665
7	Kimberly	20,257
8	Lisa	18,139
9	Stephanie	15,775
10	Nicole	14,275
11	Rebecca	13,925
12	Christina	12,980
13	Jessica	12,926
14	Amanda	12,657
15	Elizabeth	12,472
16	Kelly	11,735
17	Sarah	11,170
18	Julie	11,141
19	Mary	10,973
20	Laura	10,311
21	Shannon	9,370
22	Christine	9,103
23	Dawn	8,744
24	Tracy	8,509
25	April	8,245

All 200 girls’ names of 1975 (10,618 recorded)

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Michael	68,418
2	Jason	52,159
3	Christopher	46,575
4	James	39,569
5	David	39,156
6	Robert	35,306
7	John	35,079
8	Brian	30,578
9	Matthew	28,527
10	William	25,561
11	Daniel	23,814
12	Joseph	22,125
13	Eric	19,793
14	Jeffrey	18,316
15	Kevin	18,066
16	Richard	17,687
17	Scott	17,307
18	Steven	17,055
19	Mark	16,742
20	Thomas	16,532
21	Anthony	16,489
22	Timothy	15,947
23	Ryan	15,296
24	Jeremy	15,185
25	Charles	14,574

All 200 boys’ names of 1975 (6,337 recorded)

Biggest climbers, girls

Names that gained the most ground on 1974:

Pepper #2,683 → #951 +1,732
Mandie #2,396 → #730 +1,666
Tiana #1,772 → #632 +1,140
Lacy #1,486 → #707 +779
Lacey #1,284 → #565 +719
Sunny #1,218 → #540 +678
Mandi #969 → #331 +638
Shamika #1,553 → #932 +621

Biggest climbers, boys

Names that gained the most ground on 1974:

Benjiman #1,692 → #970 +722
Marques #1,520 → #818 +702
Glendon #1,409 → #764 +645
Benji #1,124 → #622 +502
Regan #1,409 → #938 +471
Tavares #1,065 → #635 +430
Karim #1,370 → #953 +417
Santino #1,311 → #1,000 +311

Regan is here because the boys’ file records it: the SSA publishes every name given to five or more babies of one sex, and a rank is a position within that list. It is not a claim about whose name it is.

First recorded in 1975, girls

Names the SSA had never published before 1975:

Azure 121
Turkessa 119
Tennille 103
Joyelle 88
Joyel 79
Joyell 51
Russchelle 24
Taneha 24
Reesheda 23
Keilani 22

First recorded in 1975, boys

Names the SSA had never published before 1975:

Viet 23
Tiant 18
Baretta 18
Hung 16
Caribe 14
Nam 14
Huy 13
Taryll 13
Rashod 13
Janmichael 12

Try it on yourself

Source: US Social Security Administration national baby-name files. Names given to fewer than five babies in a year are not published, so the totals here run below the true number of births. How far below is not the same in every year: the files hold 201,484 births for 1880 and 3,315,343 for 2025, so a change from one year to the next in the early decades is partly a change in what the record covers.