SSA: Beyond the Top 1000 Names

To provide popular names and maintain an acceptable performance level on our servers, we provide only the top 1000 names through our forms. However, we provide almost all names for researchers interested in naming trends.<br><br>To safeguard privacy, we exclude from these files certain names that would indicate, or would allow the ability to determine, names with fewer than 5 occurrences in any geographic area. We provide these data on both a national and state-specific basis, in two separate collections of files, each zipped into a single file. The format of the data in the two files is described in a "readme" file contained in the respective zip files.<br><br>[ed. note: the links below point to the original URL; all files are available in this archive.]<br>National data (8Mb) (names.zip)State-specific data (24Mb) (namesbystate.zip)Ed. Note: Additional information The data.gov page at https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/baby-names-from-social-security-card-applications-national-level-da... provides the following additional information:<br><br><b>Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications-National Level Data</b><br>The data (name, year of birth, sex and number) are from a 100 percent sample of Social Security card applications after 1879.<br><br>***Microdata: Yes Level of Analysis: State; Individuals - Names Variables Present: n/a File Layout: .txt Codebook: n/a Methods: No Weights (with appropriate documentation): n/a Publications: No Aggregate Data: No