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Born in 1971

The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.

Top 100 baby names of 1971

Girls
  1. Jennifer
  2. Michelle
  3. Lisa
  4. Kimberly
  5. Amy
  6. Angela
  7. Melissa
  8. Tammy
  9. Mary
  10. Julie
  11. Stephanie
  12. Heather
  13. Tracy
  14. Dawn
  15. Karen
  16. Laura
  17. Susan
  18. Christine
  19. Elizabeth
  20. Tina
  21. Shannon
  22. Kelly
  23. Rebecca
  24. Cynthia
  25. Lori
Boys
  1. Michael
  2. James
  3. David
  4. John
  5. Robert
  6. Christopher
  7. William
  8. Jason
  9. Brian
  10. Scott
  11. Richard
  12. Jeffrey
  13. Mark
  14. Kevin
  15. Joseph
  16. Steven
  17. Thomas
  18. Eric
  19. Matthew
  20. Daniel
  21. Timothy
  22. Charles
  23. Anthony
  24. Paul
  25. Gregory
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Patricia
  2. Nicole
  3. Pamela
  4. Wendy
  5. Christina
  6. Sandra
  7. Stacy
  8. Deborah
  9. Teresa
  10. Andrea
  11. Denise
  12. Maria
  13. Donna
  14. Michele
  15. Sharon
  16. Stacey
  17. Linda
  18. Brenda
  19. Dana
  20. Tonya
  21. Rhonda
  22. Barbara
  23. Monica
  24. Tara
  25. Cheryl
  26. Nancy
  27. Robin
  28. Kathleen
  29. Rachel
  30. Carrie
  31. April
  32. Debra
  33. Sarah
  34. Jill
  35. Sherry
  36. Theresa
  37. Tiffany
  38. Paula
  39. Jessica
  40. Catherine
  41. Melanie
  42. Katherine
  43. Leslie
  44. Gina
  45. Cindy
  46. Kristin
  47. Tanya
  48. Renee
  49. Tracey
  50. Jacqueline
  51. Holly
  52. Heidi
  53. Ann
  54. Crystal
  55. Tamara
  56. Sheila
  57. Diana
  58. Diane
  59. Amanda
  60. Melinda
  61. Margaret
  62. Kristen
  63. Suzanne
  64. Christy
  65. Regina
  66. Kathy
  67. Carol
  68. Erin
  69. Jodi
  70. Deanna
  71. Laurie
  72. Yolanda
  73. Victoria
  74. Danielle
  75. Beth
Boys
  1. Kenneth
  2. Stephen
  3. Shawn
  4. Chad
  5. Todd
  6. Ronald
  7. Edward
  8. Andrew
  9. Donald
  10. Patrick
  11. Sean
  12. Keith
  13. Gary
  14. Douglas
  15. Jonathan
  16. Aaron
  17. George
  18. Craig
  19. Larry
  20. Jeremy
  21. Troy
  22. Peter
  23. Bryan
  24. Dennis
  25. Jerry
  26. Ryan
  27. Raymond
  28. Jeffery
  29. Frank
  30. Jose
  31. Terry
  32. Adam
  33. Bradley
  34. Rodney
  35. Shane
  36. Travis
  37. Tony
  38. Derek
  39. Russell
  40. Marcus
  41. Samuel
  42. Randy
  43. Chris
  44. Benjamin
  45. Marc
  46. Roger
  47. Carl
  48. Brent
  49. Johnny
  50. Billy
  51. Phillip
  52. Corey
  53. Jon
  54. Bobby
  55. Joshua
  56. Juan
  57. Danny
  58. Gerald
  59. Derrick
  60. Lawrence
  61. Joel
  62. Vincent
  63. Curtis
  64. Carlos
  65. Brett
  66. Walter
  67. Wayne
  68. Jimmy
  69. Philip
  70. Brandon
  71. Jamie
  72. Erik
  73. Lance
  74. Alan
  75. Darren
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1971.

Famous people born in 1971

Jeremy Renner · American actorJanuary 7
Mary J. Blige · American singerJanuary 11
Regina King · American actress and directorJanuary 15
Pep Guardiola · Spanish association football manager and playerJanuary 18
Jonathan Davis · American singerJanuary 18
Michael C. Hall · American actorFebruary 1
Alex Borstein · American actressFebruary 15
Denise Richards · American actressFebruary 17
Jeff Kinney · American author and cartoonistFebruary 19
Gillian Flynn · American author and criticFebruary 24
Sean Astin · American actorFebruary 25
Erykah Badu · American singer-songwriterFebruary 26
Sean Baker · American film directorFebruary 26
Method Man · American rapper and actorMarch 2
Peter Sarsgaard · American actorMarch 7
Jon Hamm · American actorMarch 10
Johnny Knoxville · American stunt performer and actorMarch 11
Alan Tudyk · American actorMarch 16
Keegan-Michael Key · American actor and comedianMarch 22
Nathan Fillion · Canadian-American actorMarch 27
Ewan McGregor · Scottish actorMarch 31
Shireen Abu Akleh · Palestinian-American journalistApril 3
Shannen Doherty · American actressApril 12
Selena · American singerApril 16
Thomas Piketty · French economistMay 7
Kim Jong-nam · Oldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-ilMay 10
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands · Queen consort of the NetherlandsMay 17
Brad Friedel · American soccer player and coachMay 18
Matt Stone · American actor, animator and filmmakerMay 26
Paul Bettany · British actorMay 27
Marco Rubio · 72nd United States Secretary of State since 2025May 28
Idina Menzel · American actress and singerMay 30
Ghil'ad Zuckermann · Linguist, language revivalist, professor, author, hyperpolyglotJune 1
Joseph Kabila · President of the DR Congo from 2001 to 2019June 4
Noah Wyle · American actorJune 4
Mark Wahlberg · American actorJune 5
Bobby Jindal · American politician and 55th governor of LouisianaJune 10
Tupac Shakur · American rapper and actorJune 16
Josh Lucas · American actorJune 20
Elon Musk · American businessmanJune 28
Fabien Barthez · French footballerJune 28
Missy Elliott · American rapperJuly 1
Julian Assange · Australian editor, publisher, and activistJuly 3
Cory Doctorow · Canadian-British-American bloggerJuly 17
Vitali Klitschko · Ukrainian boxer and politicianJuly 19
Sandra Oh · Canadian and American actressJuly 20
Charlotte Gainsbourg · French and British actress and singerJuly 21
Alison Krauss · American musicianJuly 23
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi · Leader of the Islamic StateJuly 28
Jeff Gordon · American racing driverAugust 4
Valdis Dombrovskis · 11th Prime Minister of LatviaAugust 5
Justin Theroux · American actor and filmmakerAugust 10
Pete Sampras · American tennis playerAugust 12
Ke Huy Quan · American actor and stunt choreographerAugust 20
Gretchen Whitmer · American politician and attorneyAugust 23
Carla Gugino · American actressAugust 29
Chris Tucker · American actor and comedianAugust 31
Hakan Şükür · Turkish association football playerSeptember 1
Dolores O'Riordan · Irish musicianSeptember 6
David Arquette · American actor, director and professional wrestlerSeptember 8
Martin Freeman · English actorSeptember 8
Amy Poehler · American actressSeptember 16
Anna Netrebko · Russian and Austrian operatic sopranoSeptember 18
Lance Armstrong · Cyclist from the United StatesSeptember 18
Jada Pinkett Smith · American actressSeptember 18
Henrik Larsson · Swedish association football player and manager and floorball playerSeptember 20
Luke Wilson · American actorSeptember 21
Sacha Baron Cohen · British comedian and actorOctober 13
Snoop Dogg · American rapperOctober 20
Dannii Minogue · Australian singer and actressOctober 20
Elif Shafak · Turkish writerOctober 25
Rosemarie DeWitt · American actressOctober 26
Winona Ryder · American actressOctober 29
Walton Goggins · American actorNovember 10
Joel McHale · American actor and comedianNovember 20
Chris Hardwick · American stand-up comedianNovember 23
Christina Applegate · American actressNovember 25
Kristi Noem · American politicianNovember 30
Ricky Martin · Puerto Rican singerDecember 24
Justin Trudeau · 23rd prime minister of Canada from 2015 to 2025December 25
Dido · English singer and songwriterDecember 25
Jared Leto · American actor, singer, musician and songwriterDecember 26

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