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U.S. Baby Names By State

A comprehensive list of frequencies of baby names in the U.S, listed by year and state, since 1910

Originator: Social Security Administration

This dataset contains information on the popularity of most baby names in use in the U.S. since 1910. Each column represents the number of babies recorded with a given name in a given state during the given year.

(5 columns, 5647426 rows)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["U.S. Baby Names By State"]
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View the data:

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RandomSample[ResourceData["U.S. Baby Names By State"], 5]
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Visualization

Plot the popularity of a name over time:

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DateListPlot[ Select[ResourceData["U.S. Baby Names By State"], StringMatchQ[#Name, "Albert"] && #State == Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"NewYork", "UnitedStates"}] && #Gender == "Male" &][ All, {#Year, #Number} &]]
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See which states have the most "Game of Thrones" fans:

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GeoRegionValuePlot[ Total /@ GroupBy[Select[ResourceData["U.S. Baby Names By State"], StringMatchQ[#Name, "Khaleesi" | "Daenerys"] &], #State &][All, All, #Number &]]
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Wolfram Research, "U.S. Baby Names By State" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.15960.data

License Information

Public Domain

Data Resource History

  • Date Created:

Source Metadata

  • Title: Baby Names By State
  • Creator: Social Security Administration
  • Publisher: Social Security Administration
  • Date: February 2016
  • Coverage: United States 1910-2015
  • Language: English
  • Source: https://www.ssa.gov/oact//babynames/limits.html

Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research