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Born in 1978

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

Top 100 baby names of 1978

Girls
  1. Jennifer
  2. Melissa
  3. Jessica
  4. Amy
  5. Heather
  6. Amanda
  7. Angela
  8. Sarah
  9. Michelle
  10. Nicole
  11. Lisa
  12. Kelly
  13. Kimberly
  14. Elizabeth
  15. Christina
  16. Stephanie
  17. Rebecca
  18. Crystal
  19. Laura
  20. Jamie
  21. Erin
  22. Shannon
  23. Andrea
  24. Mary
  25. Rachel
Boys
  1. Michael
  2. Jason
  3. Christopher
  4. David
  5. James
  6. Matthew
  7. John
  8. Robert
  9. Brian
  10. Joseph
  11. Daniel
  12. Joshua
  13. William
  14. Ryan
  15. Kevin
  16. Eric
  17. Timothy
  18. Jeremy
  19. Jeffrey
  20. Anthony
  21. Richard
  22. Andrew
  23. Thomas
  24. Steven
  25. Nicholas
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Julie
  2. April
  3. Sara
  4. Christine
  5. Amber
  6. Danielle
  7. Tiffany
  8. Emily
  9. Erica
  10. Carrie
  11. Maria
  12. Brandy
  13. Katherine
  14. Karen
  15. Tara
  16. Megan
  17. Monica
  18. Misty
  19. Stacy
  20. Tina
  21. Jill
  22. Tracy
  23. Patricia
  24. Susan
  25. Cynthia
  26. Kristy
  27. Dawn
  28. Melanie
  29. Stacey
  30. Holly
  31. Wendy
  32. Kathryn
  33. Alicia
  34. Christy
  35. Lori
  36. Brandi
  37. Kristen
  38. Leslie
  39. Kristina
  40. Anna
  41. Natalie
  42. Tammy
  43. Courtney
  44. Sandra
  45. Dana
  46. Jaime
  47. Catherine
  48. Veronica
  49. Samantha
  50. Allison
  51. Vanessa
  52. Tonya
  53. Kristin
  54. Kathleen
  55. Lauren
  56. Jacqueline
  57. Tanya
  58. Heidi
  59. Melinda
  60. Denise
  61. Michele
  62. Ashley
  63. Teresa
  64. Robin
  65. Katie
  66. Sabrina
  67. Valerie
  68. Gina
  69. Cheryl
  70. Lindsay
  71. Mandy
  72. Nancy
  73. Kristi
  74. Renee
  75. Linda
Boys
  1. Mark
  2. Charles
  3. Justin
  4. Adam
  5. Scott
  6. Jonathan
  7. Aaron
  8. Paul
  9. Benjamin
  10. Chad
  11. Nathan
  12. Stephen
  13. Gregory
  14. Shawn
  15. Brandon
  16. Kenneth
  17. Patrick
  18. Bryan
  19. Jose
  20. Sean
  21. Travis
  22. Edward
  23. Donald
  24. Keith
  25. Jacob
  26. Jesse
  27. Shaun
  28. Bradley
  29. Peter
  30. Ronald
  31. Todd
  32. Samuel
  33. George
  34. Douglas
  35. Gary
  36. Corey
  37. Juan
  38. Kyle
  39. Larry
  40. Shane
  41. Craig
  42. Phillip
  43. Dustin
  44. Raymond
  45. Marcus
  46. Dennis
  47. Jared
  48. Cory
  49. Joel
  50. Derek
  51. Derrick
  52. Frank
  53. Carlos
  54. Antonio
  55. Jeffery
  56. Jeremiah
  57. Jerry
  58. Wesley
  59. Philip
  60. Erik
  61. Randy
  62. Brent
  63. Troy
  64. Gabriel
  65. Zachary
  66. Terry
  67. Casey
  68. Russell
  69. Nathaniel
  70. Jamie
  71. Curtis
  72. Tony
  73. Alexander
  74. Billy
  75. Carl
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1978.

Famous people born in 1978

Davit Mujiri · Georgian footballerJanuary 2
January Jones · American actressJanuary 5
Gennaro Gattuso · Italian association football player and managerJanuary 9
Emile Heskey · English association football playerJanuary 11
Omar Sy · French actor and comedianJanuary 20
Kristen Schaal · American actressJanuary 24
Volodymyr Zelenskyy · President of Ukraine since 2019January 25
Lila Tretikov · Russian–American engineerJanuary 25
Gianluigi Buffon · Former Italian footballerJanuary 28
Olena Zelenska · First Lady of Ukraine since 2019February 6
Ashton Kutcher · American actorFebruary 7
Daniel Van Buyten · Belgian association football playerFebruary 7
Danai Gurira · Zimbabwean-American actressFebruary 14
Yuji Nakazawa · Japanese association football playerFebruary 25
Jensen Ackles · American actorMarch 1
Didier Drogba · Ivorian and French association football playerMarch 11
Rani Mukerji · Indian actressMarch 21
Carles Puyol · Spanish footballerApril 13
Lara Dutta · Indian actressApril 16
James Franco · American actorApril 19
Laetitia Casta · French actress and modelMay 11
Jason Biggs · American actorMay 12
Ricardo Carvalho · Portuguese footballerMay 18
Ginnifer Goodwin · American actressMay 22
Justin Long · American actorJune 2
Bill Hader · American comedian and actorJune 7
Miroslav Klose · German professional football manager and former playerJune 9
Matt Bellamy · English singer-songwriter, member of MuseJune 9
Zoe Saldaña · American actress, dancer, and modelJune 19
Frank Lampard · English association football player and managerJune 20
Nicole Scherzinger · American singer and actressJune 29
Jüri Ratas · Estonian politicianJuly 2
Michelle Rodriguez · American actressJuly 12
Topher Grace · American actorJuly 12
Josh Hartnett · American actor and producerJuly 21
Justin Bartha · American actorJuly 21
Andy Samberg · American comedian and actorAugust 18
Steve Chen · Chinese-American businessmanAugust 18
Kobe Bryant · American basketball playerAugust 23
Chris Hipkins · Prime Minister of New Zealand from January to November 2023September 5
Ron DeSantis · American politicianSeptember 14
Anthony Mackie · American actorSeptember 23
Usher · American R&B singerOctober 14
CM Punk · American professional wrestler, actor, and retired mixed martial artistOctober 26
Vanessa-Mae · British violinistOctober 27
Matthew Morrison · American actor, dancer, and singerOctober 30
Rio Ferdinand · English association football playerNovember 7
Rachel McAdams · Canadian actressNovember 17
Katherine Heigl · American actressNovember 24
Jen Psaki · American political advisor and White House Press Secretary from 2021December 1
Nelly Furtado · Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriterDecember 2
Ian Somerhalder · American actorDecember 8
Manny Pacquiao · Filipino boxerDecember 17
Katie Holmes · American actressDecember 18
John Legend · American singer-songwriterDecember 28
Tyrese Gibson · American singer and actorDecember 30
Johnny Sins · American adult film performerDecember 31

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