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Born in 1972

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

Top 100 baby names of 1972

Girls
  1. Jennifer
  2. Michelle
  3. Lisa
  4. Kimberly
  5. Amy
  6. Angela
  7. Melissa
  8. Stephanie
  9. Heather
  10. Nicole
  11. Tammy
  12. Julie
  13. Mary
  14. Rebecca
  15. Elizabeth
  16. Christine
  17. Laura
  18. Tina
  19. Tracy
  20. Dawn
  21. Karen
  22. Shannon
  23. Kelly
  24. Susan
  25. Cynthia
Boys
  1. Michael
  2. Christopher
  3. James
  4. David
  5. John
  6. Robert
  7. Jason
  8. Brian
  9. William
  10. Matthew
  11. Scott
  12. Joseph
  13. Kevin
  14. Richard
  15. Daniel
  16. Eric
  17. Jeffrey
  18. Mark
  19. Steven
  20. Thomas
  21. Timothy
  22. Anthony
  23. Charles
  24. Paul
  25. Chad
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Christina
  2. Patricia
  3. Lori
  4. Wendy
  5. Andrea
  6. Sandra
  7. Maria
  8. Stacy
  9. Pamela
  10. Denise
  11. Michele
  12. Tonya
  13. Tara
  14. Teresa
  15. Rachel
  16. Stacey
  17. Melanie
  18. Deborah
  19. Brenda
  20. Donna
  21. Jessica
  22. Monica
  23. April
  24. Sarah
  25. Sharon
  26. Linda
  27. Dana
  28. Carrie
  29. Tanya
  30. Robin
  31. Cheryl
  32. Kathleen
  33. Barbara
  34. Crystal
  35. Rhonda
  36. Tiffany
  37. Jill
  38. Nancy
  39. Heidi
  40. Catherine
  41. Debra
  42. Kristin
  43. Theresa
  44. Katherine
  45. Sherry
  46. Holly
  47. Paula
  48. Danielle
  49. Christy
  50. Leslie
  51. Amanda
  52. Renee
  53. Gina
  54. Jacqueline
  55. Cindy
  56. Melinda
  57. Veronica
  58. Diana
  59. Tamara
  60. Kristen
  61. Anna
  62. Erica
  63. Tracey
  64. Yolanda
  65. Sheila
  66. Ann
  67. Suzanne
  68. Erin
  69. Shelly
  70. Margaret
  71. Alicia
  72. Jodi
  73. Laurie
  74. Victoria
  75. Valerie
Boys
  1. Gregory
  2. Kenneth
  3. Shawn
  4. Stephen
  5. Andrew
  6. Todd
  7. Ronald
  8. Sean
  9. Edward
  10. Patrick
  11. Donald
  12. Jonathan
  13. Keith
  14. Ryan
  15. Aaron
  16. Gary
  17. Jeremy
  18. Douglas
  19. George
  20. Bryan
  21. Craig
  22. Larry
  23. Peter
  24. Troy
  25. Jose
  26. Adam
  27. Dennis
  28. Jerry
  29. Raymond
  30. Shane
  31. Frank
  32. Travis
  33. Jeffery
  34. Joshua
  35. Justin
  36. Bradley
  37. Terry
  38. Brandon
  39. Benjamin
  40. Rodney
  41. Samuel
  42. Derek
  43. Tony
  44. Russell
  45. Randy
  46. Marcus
  47. Jamie
  48. Juan
  49. Johnny
  50. Roger
  51. Phillip
  52. Brent
  53. Joel
  54. Nathan
  55. Brett
  56. Chris
  57. Billy
  58. Marc
  59. Carlos
  60. Carl
  61. Erik
  62. Danny
  63. Jesse
  64. Jon
  65. Bobby
  66. Derrick
  67. Curtis
  68. Antonio
  69. Shannon
  70. Corey
  71. Christian
  72. Jimmy
  73. Walter
  74. Nicholas
  75. Joe
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1972.

Famous people born in 1972

Lilian Thuram · French footballerJanuary 1
Amanda Peet · American actressJanuary 11
Vitaly Scherbo · Soviet-Belarusian-American artistic gymnastJanuary 13
Lil Jon · American rapper and record producerJanuary 17
Nikki Haley · American politician and diplomatJanuary 20
Gabriel Macht · American actorJanuary 22
Amy Coney Barrett · American lawyer and juristJanuary 28
Leymah Gbowee · Liberian peace activisteFebruary 1
Billie Joe Armstrong · American rock musicianFebruary 17
Ralphie May · American stand-up comedianFebruary 17
Taylor Hawkins · American drummerFebruary 17
Michael Chang · American tennis playerFebruary 22
Pedro Sánchez · Prime Minister of Spain since 2018February 29
Shaquille O'Neal · American basketball playerMarch 6
Timbaland · American record producerMarch 10
Mia Hamm · American soccer playerMarch 17
Naftali Bennett · Prime Minister of Israel from 2021 to 2022March 25
Leslie Mann · American actressMarch 26
Jennifer Garner · American actressApril 17
Eli Roth · American filmmaker and actorApril 18
Rivaldo · Brazilian association football playerApril 19
Carmen Electra · American actress, model, and singerApril 20
Narges Mohammadi · Iranian human rights activistApril 21
Julie Benz · American actressMay 1
Dwayne Johnson · American actor and professional wrestlerMay 2
Mike Dirnt · American musicianMay 4
Asghar Farhadi · Iranian screenwriter and film directorMay 7
Lisa Ann · American pornographic actressMay 9
Andrzej Duda · Politician and lawyer, president of Poland from 2015 to 2025May 16
Busta Rhymes · American rapperMay 20
The Notorious B.I.G. · American rapperMay 21
Rubens Barrichello · Brazilian racing driverMay 23
Maia Sandu · President of Moldova since 2020May 24
Laverne Cox · American actress and LGBT advocateMay 29
Wentworth Miller · American and British actorJune 2
Sundar Pichai · Indian-American business executive, CEO of Google LLC & Alphabet IncJune 10
John Cho · American actorJune 16
Jean Dujardin · French actorJune 19
Robin Tunney · American actressJune 21
Zinedine Zidane · French association football player and coachJune 23
Selma Blair · American actressJune 23
Samantha Smith · American peace activist and child actressJune 29
Nina Badrić · Croatian singerJuly 4
Sofía Vergara · Colombian-American actress and modelJuly 10
Michael Rosenbaum · American actorJuly 11
Henrique Capriles · Venezuelan politician and lawyerJuly 11
Marlon Wayans · American actor, screenwriter, and film producerJuly 23
Masayuki Okano · Japanese association football playerJuly 25
Maya Rudolph · American actress and comedianJuly 27
Elizabeth Berkley · American actressJuly 28
Geri Halliwell · English singer and actressAugust 6
Juanes · Colombian musicianAugust 9
Ben Affleck · American film actor, director and screenwriterAugust 15
The Great Khali · Indian-American professional wrestler, actor and powerlifterAugust 27
Cameron Diaz · American actress and modelAugust 30
Pavel Nedvěd · Czech association football playerAugust 30
Idris Elba · British actorSeptember 6
Queen Letizia of Spain · Queen consort of Spain since 2014September 15
N. K. Jemisin · American science fiction and fantasy writerSeptember 19
Victor Ponta · 63rd Prime Minister of RomaniaSeptember 20
Gwyneth Paltrow · American actress, entrepreneur, writer and singerSeptember 27
Dita Von Teese · American Egyptian burlesque dancer and modelSeptember 28
Eminem · American rapper, record producer and actorOctober 17
Tarkan · Turkish singerOctober 17
Karl Nehammer · Chancellor of Austria from 2021 to 2025October 18
Esther Duflo · French-American economistOctober 25
Gabrielle Union · American actress, singer and modelOctober 29
Jenny McCarthy · American actress, model, activist, television personality and authorNovember 1
Luís Figo · Portuguese football player and philatelistNovember 4
Rebecca Romijn · American actress and modelNovember 6
Gretchen Mol · American actress and former modelNovember 8
Eric Dane · American actorNovember 9
Josh Duhamel · American actor and former modelNovember 14
Hiroshi Nanami · Japanese association football player and managerNovember 28
Tré Cool · American drummerDecember 9
Brian Molko · Belgium-born British-American musicianDecember 10
Alyssa Milano · American actressDecember 19
Vanessa Paradis · French singer, model and actressDecember 22
Jude Law · English actorDecember 29

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