Born in 1976
The most popular baby names and the famous people of the year you arrived.
Top 100 baby names of 1976
Girls
- Jennifer
- Amy
- Melissa
- Heather
- Angela
- Michelle
- Kimberly
- Jessica
- Lisa
- Amanda
- Stephanie
- Rebecca
- Nicole
- Christina
- Sarah
- Elizabeth
- Shannon
- Jamie
- Kelly
- Laura
- Julie
- Mary
- Rachel
- Erin
- Andrea
Boys
- Michael
- Jason
- Christopher
- David
- James
- John
- Robert
- Brian
- Matthew
- Daniel
- William
- Joseph
- Eric
- Jeremy
- Kevin
- Ryan
- Jeffrey
- Joshua
- Richard
- Steven
- Timothy
- Anthony
- Thomas
- Scott
- Mark
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
- Christine
- Sara
- Carrie
- Jaime
- April
- Karen
- Tiffany
- Danielle
- Maria
- Dawn
- Crystal
- Tracy
- Stacy
- Wendy
- Susan
- Tammy
- Tara
- Patricia
- Cynthia
- Monica
- Misty
- Lori
- Tina
- Amber
- Emily
- Stacey
- Jill
- Melanie
- Erica
- Brandy
- Holly
- Katherine
- Tonya
- Sandra
- Christy
- Tanya
- Megan
- Michele
- Dana
- Leslie
- Teresa
- Allison
- Veronica
- Denise
- Heidi
- Alicia
- Catherine
- Kristen
- Kristin
- Robin
- Courtney
- Anna
- Brenda
- Brandi
- Natalie
- Sharon
- Kathleen
- Valerie
- Pamela
- Samantha
- Renee
- Nancy
- Kathryn
- Theresa
- Linda
- Tamara
- Victoria
- Donna
- Gina
- Melinda
- Deborah
- Kristina
- Barbara
- Jacqueline
- Mandy
Boys
- Charles
- Andrew
- Paul
- Chad
- Aaron
- Jonathan
- Benjamin
- Justin
- Shawn
- Gregory
- Adam
- Stephen
- Kenneth
- Nathan
- Brandon
- Patrick
- Sean
- Bryan
- Jose
- Edward
- Travis
- Donald
- Keith
- Ronald
- Todd
- Bradley
- Gary
- George
- Peter
- Jesse
- Douglas
- Shane
- Juan
- Samuel
- Larry
- Craig
- Jamie
- Jacob
- Corey
- Raymond
- Dennis
- Jerry
- Frank
- Carlos
- Phillip
- Antonio
- Joel
- Troy
- Marcus
- Terry
- Jeffery
- Nicholas
- Brent
- Randy
- Kyle
- Gabriel
- Dustin
- Cory
- Derek
- Billy
- Tony
- Russell
- Rodney
- Philip
- Jared
- Derrick
- Johnny
- Jeremiah
- Erik
- Carl
- Bobby
- Zachary
- Shannon
- Marc
- Victor
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1976.
Famous people born in 1976
Paz Vega · Spanish actressJanuary 2
Michael Peña · American actorJanuary 13
Rick Ross · American rapper and record executiveJanuary 28
Katrín Jakobsdóttir · 28th Prime Minister of IcelandFebruary 1
Abhishek Bachchan · Indian actor and film producerFebruary 5
Yuval Noah Harari · Israeli historian and author of popular science bestsellersFebruary 24
Rashida Jones · American actress, writer, and producerFebruary 25
Ali Larter · American actress and modelFebruary 28
Freddie Prinze Jr. · American actorMarch 8
Alessandro Nesta · Italian association football player and managerMarch 19
Chester Bennington · American singer, songwriter and musicianMarch 20
Reese Witherspoon · American actressMarch 22
Michelle Monaghan · American actressMarch 23
Keri Russell · American actressMarch 23
Peyton Manning · American football playerMarch 24
Jennifer Capriati · American tennis playerMarch 29
Melissa Joan Hart · American actressApril 18
Tim Duncan · American basketball playerApril 25
Sally Hawkins · English actressApril 27
Victor Glover · American astronautApril 30
Yasuhiro Hato · Japanese association football playerMay 4
Kevin Garnett · American basketball playerMay 19
Cillian Murphy · Irish actorMay 25
Colin Farrell · Irish actorMay 31
Alexei Navalny · Russian jurist and opposition leaderJune 4
Jonathan Nolan · British-American filmmakerJune 6
Lindsay Davenport · American tennis playerJune 8
Blake Shelton · American country music singer and television personalityJune 18
Patrick Vieira · French association football player and coachJune 23
Ruud van Nistelrooy · Dutch association football player and coachJuly 1
Bérénice Bejo · Argentine-born French actressJuly 7
Diane Kruger · German actress and modelJuly 15
Benedict Cumberbatch · English actorJuly 19
Judit Polgár · Hungarian chess playerJuly 23
Rashida Tlaib · American politician and lawyerJuly 24
Tera Patrick · American pornographic actressJuly 25
Demis Hassabis · British artificial intelligence researcherJuly 27
Iván Duque · 33rd President of Colombia 2018–2022August 1
Sam Worthington · Australian and English actorAugust 2
Audrey Tautou · French actressAugust 9
Abiy Ahmed · Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018August 15
Scott Caan · American actorAugust 23
Mark Webber · Australian professional racing driverAugust 27
Naomie Harris · British actressSeptember 6
Jon Bernthal · American actorSeptember 20
Stephanie McMahon · American professional wrestler and executiveSeptember 24
Chauncey Billups · American basketball player and coachSeptember 25
Michael Ballack · German association football playerSeptember 26
Francesco Totti · Italian association football playerSeptember 27
Andriy Shevchenko · Ukrainian association football playerSeptember 29
Seann William Scott · American actorOctober 3
Alicia Silverstone · American actressOctober 4
Ramzan Kadyrov · Russian politician and head of the Chechen RepublicOctober 5
Gilberto Silva · Brazilian footballerOctober 7
Emily Deschanel · American actress, television producer, and film producerOctober 11
Sal Khan · American educatorOctober 11
Omar Gooding · American actorOctober 19
Ryan Reynolds · Canadian-American actorOctober 23
Mallika Sherawat · Indian actressOctober 24
Piper Perabo · American actressOctober 31
Jack Dorsey · American software entrepreneur and co-founder of TwitterNovember 19
Chadwick Boseman · American actorNovember 29
Anna Faris · American actressNovember 29
Amy Acker · American actressDecember 5
Armin van Buuren · Dutch DJ and record producerDecember 25
Joe Manganiello · American actorDecember 28