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The U.S. Social Security administration provides a history of First Names given on a baby's birth certificate in the U.S. from 1879 to the present day. Visit the [http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html official SSA Baby Names site] for more information.
==Available Data==The following processed data is available:*A list the top 1000 most popular baby names every ten years from 1936 to 2006 is available for researchers ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/SSA-Top1000BabyNames1936to2006.txt SSA-Top1000BabyNames1936to2006.txt]). *From this list 4267 distinct first names were classified as Male (0), Female(1), or Androgenous (2) ([http://www.edegan.com/repository/SSA-BabyNamesByGender.txt SSA-BabyNamesByGender.txt]). Aside from coding gender, matches on these names may represent some degree of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicisation Anglicization].
