US baby name data 1880-2024.
Source: Social Security Administration
Data includes all given names registered to the SSA starting with birth year 1880. Names with <5 people are omitted by the SSA to protect privacy. Spellings of names are unique, and each name is stored with the sex assigned at birth. The SSA's data only includes the first 15 letters of a name, although it estimates extremely few names are longer than 15 characters.
Slide 1 plots the proportion of all babies with a name in the top N names of that year, and shows that names are steadily getting more diverse. Slide 2 shows the average number of letters in baby names, which has been decreasing since the 90's. Slide 3 shows the most recent baby names by first letter. Slide 4 shows the rise and fall of selected names that had significant spikes in popularity. Slide 5 shows 4 different unisex names and how the sex of babies with that name have changed over time.
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Source: SSA [https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html)
Tools: Python with matpotlib.
Men named Joan? What culture’s that?
And if anyone’s wondering about girls’ names in the 1980s, I’m going with the popularity of Jennifer and Stephanie.
I named my little boy JALMCEK