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Born in 1979

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

Top 100 baby names of 1979

Girls
  1. Jennifer
  2. Melissa
  3. Amanda
  4. Jessica
  5. Amy
  6. Sarah
  7. Heather
  8. Angela
  9. Nicole
  10. Michelle
  11. Elizabeth
  12. Kimberly
  13. Lisa
  14. Christina
  15. Stephanie
  16. Kelly
  17. Rebecca
  18. Crystal
  19. Jamie
  20. Laura
  21. Erin
  22. Amber
  23. April
  24. Mary
  25. Shannon
Boys
  1. Michael
  2. Christopher
  3. Jason
  4. David
  5. James
  6. Matthew
  7. John
  8. Robert
  9. Joshua
  10. Brian
  11. Joseph
  12. Daniel
  13. William
  14. Ryan
  15. Nicholas
  16. Jeremy
  17. Eric
  18. Timothy
  19. Kevin
  20. Andrew
  21. Anthony
  22. Justin
  23. Adam
  24. Jeffrey
  25. Richard
Show names 26 to 100
Girls
  1. Andrea
  2. Rachel
  3. Tiffany
  4. Julie
  5. Sara
  6. Megan
  7. Erica
  8. Danielle
  9. Emily
  10. Christine
  11. Katherine
  12. Maria
  13. Tara
  14. Brandy
  15. Monica
  16. Carrie
  17. Misty
  18. Stacy
  19. Patricia
  20. Lauren
  21. Karen
  22. Alicia
  23. Holly
  24. Tracy
  25. Kathryn
  26. Susan
  27. Jill
  28. Melanie
  29. Dana
  30. Cynthia
  31. Kristy
  32. Dawn
  33. Tina
  34. Anna
  35. Stacey
  36. Brandi
  37. Kristen
  38. Katie
  39. Wendy
  40. Leslie
  41. Samantha
  42. Ashley
  43. Natalie
  44. Lori
  45. Allison
  46. Courtney
  47. Christy
  48. Kristin
  49. Kristina
  50. Vanessa
  51. Veronica
  52. Sandra
  53. Catherine
  54. Tammy
  55. Jacqueline
  56. Mindy
  57. Melinda
  58. Heidi
  59. Kathleen
  60. Brooke
  61. Tonya
  62. Teresa
  63. Lindsay
  64. Valerie
  65. Pamela
  66. Erika
  67. Denise
  68. Tanya
  69. Cheryl
  70. Robin
  71. Gina
  72. Jaime
  73. Leah
  74. Katrina
  75. Theresa
Boys
  1. Thomas
  2. Steven
  3. Charles
  4. Scott
  5. Mark
  6. Jonathan
  7. Aaron
  8. Benjamin
  9. Paul
  10. Brandon
  11. Travis
  12. Nathan
  13. Chad
  14. Patrick
  15. Stephen
  16. Kenneth
  17. Gregory
  18. Shawn
  19. Jose
  20. Jacob
  21. Bryan
  22. Bradley
  23. Edward
  24. Sean
  25. Jesse
  26. Donald
  27. Keith
  28. Peter
  29. Ronald
  30. Samuel
  31. Kyle
  32. George
  33. Douglas
  34. Gary
  35. Todd
  36. Juan
  37. Dustin
  38. Corey
  39. Shaun
  40. Jared
  41. Erik
  42. Shane
  43. Phillip
  44. Larry
  45. Raymond
  46. Joel
  47. Derek
  48. Carlos
  49. Zachary
  50. Dennis
  51. Marcus
  52. Craig
  53. Frank
  54. Antonio
  55. Derrick
  56. Jeremiah
  57. Cory
  58. Philip
  59. Brent
  60. Jerry
  61. Randy
  62. Jeffery
  63. Jamie
  64. Gabriel
  65. Wesley
  66. Curtis
  67. Russell
  68. Casey
  69. Alexander
  70. Nathaniel
  71. Terry
  72. Billy
  73. Brett
  74. Troy
  75. Carl
Ranked by the number of US Social Security card applications for babies born in 1979.

Famous people born in 1979

Siti Nurhaliza · Malaysian singer, actress, and modelJanuary 11
Aaliyah · American R&B singerJanuary 16
Leo Varadkar · Taoiseach from 2017 to 2020, and from 2022 to 2024January 18
Roberta Metsola · President of the European Parliament since 2022January 18
Rob Bourdon · American drummerJanuary 20
Tatyana Ali · American actress and singerJanuary 24
Rosamund Pike · English actressJanuary 27
Christina Koch · American astronautJanuary 29
Alice Weidel · German politician, AfDFebruary 6
Tawakkol Karman · Yemeni-Turkish journalist, politician and human rights activistFebruary 7
Zhang Ziyi · Chinese actress and modelFebruary 9
Brandy Norwood · American singer, songwriter and actressFebruary 11
Mena Suvari · American actress, fashion designer, modelFebruary 13
Rafael Márquez · Mexican association football playerFebruary 13
Valentino Rossi · Italian motorcycle racerFebruary 16
Jennifer Love Hewitt · American actress and singerFebruary 21
Jordan Peele · American actor, comedian and filmmakerFebruary 21
Tim Howard · American soccer playerMarch 6
Oscar Isaac · Guatemalan-American actorMarch 9
Nicolas Anelka · French football managerMarch 14
Stormy Daniels · American pornographic actress and directorMarch 17
Adam Levine · American singerMarch 18
Lee Pace · American actorMarch 25
Norah Jones · American musicianMarch 30
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk · Ukrainian footballerMarch 30
Heath Ledger · Australian actorApril 4
Natasha Lyonne · American actressApril 4
Rachel Corrie · American anti-war and human rights activistApril 10
Claire Danes · American actorApril 12
Jennifer Morrison · American actressApril 12
Kourtney Kardashian · American media personality, model and businesswomanApril 18
Kate Hudson · American actress and singerApril 19
James McAvoy · Scottish actorApril 21
Rosario Dawson · American actressMay 9
Bleona · Albanian singer and actressMay 14
Diego Forlán · Uruguayan association football player and managerMay 19
Andrea Pirlo · Italian association football player and managerMay 19
Maggie Q · American actressMay 22
Tracy McGrady · American basketball playerMay 24
Markus Persson · Swedish video game programmer and founder of MojangJune 1
Morena Baccarin · Brazilian-American actressJune 2
Naohiro Takahara · Japanese association football playerJune 4
Diego Milito · Argentine football playerJune 12
Chris Pratt · American actorJune 21
Mindy Kaling · American actress, writer, and comedianJune 24
Ryan Tedder · American singer, songwriter and record producerJune 26
Tomoyuki Sakai · Japanese association football playerJune 29
Amélie Mauresmo · French tennis playerJuly 5
Kevin Hart · American comedian and actorJuly 6
Jayma Mays · American actressJuly 16
Jason Momoa · American actorAugust 1
Hitoshi Sogahata · Japanese association football playerAugust 2
Evangeline Lilly · Canadian actressAugust 3
Aaron Paul · American actorAugust 27
Júlio César · Brazilian footballerSeptember 3
Pink · American singer, songwriter, and actressSeptember 8
Eric Abidal · French footballerSeptember 11
Ivica Olić · Croatian football player and managerSeptember 14
Flo Rida · American rapper and singerSeptember 16
Alison Lohman · American actressSeptember 18
Junichi Inamoto · Japanese association football playerSeptember 18
Shinji Ono · Japanese association football playerSeptember 27
Rachael Leigh Cook · American actress and modelOctober 4
Kristanna Loken · American actressOctober 8
Brandon Routh · American actorOctober 9
Mya · American singerOctober 10
Kimi Räikkönen · Finnish racing driverOctober 17
Ne-Yo · American R&B singerOctober 18
John Krasinski · American actor and filmmakerOctober 20
Nargis Fakhri · American actress and modelOctober 20
Prabhas · Indian film actorOctober 23
Jawed Karim · American entrepreneur, co-founder of YouTubeOctober 28
Lamar Odom · American basketball playerNovember 6
Metta Sandiford-Artest · American basketball playerNovember 13
Olga Kurylenko · Ukrainian-French actress and modelNovember 14
Vincenzo Iaquinta · Italian association football playerNovember 21
Joel Kinnaman · Swedish-American actorNovember 25
The Game · American rapper, record producer and actorNovember 29
Tim Cahill · Australian association football playerDecember 6
Sara Bareilles · American recording artistDecember 7
Jennifer Carpenter · American actressDecember 7
Colleen Hoover · American authorDecember 11
Michael Owen · English association football playerDecember 14
Adam Brody · American actorDecember 15
James Blake · American tennis playerDecember 28

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