SSA Baby Names
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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 official SSA Baby Names site for more information.
Available Data
The following processed data is available for researchers:
- A list the top 1000 most popular baby names every ten years from 1936 to 2006 (SSA-Top1000BabyNames1936to2006.txt).
- From the above list 4267 distinct first names were classified as Male (0), Female(1), or Androgenous (2) (SSA-BabyNamesByGender.txt).
Aside from coding gender, matches on these names may represent some degree of Anglicization.
