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N.A.M.E. · 103 years of U.S. baby name data
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1923–2025 year-by-year343M+ recorded birthsSSA public data
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For the “All names” list, counts for the same name are combined across sex categories. Girls and boys lists follow the original SSA categories.
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About N.A.M.E.
A calmer way to find the right baby name.
Name Almanac Made Easy is an independent project, not a large media company. It started from a simple frustration: most baby-name-popularity data online is either buried in raw government spreadsheets or flattened into vague "top 10" lists with no way to check a specific year, gender, or decade. This site processes the Social Security Administration's own name-frequency files, distributed through Data.gov, directly — so every count and rank you see traces back to an actual recorded birth, not a marketing survey.
The library covers 1923 through 2025, a 103-year span chosen because that is how far back SSA name registration is reliably complete. Earlier years would have to be estimated from far patchier historical sources, so we leave them out rather than presenting a guess as data.
This site is built and written by Paul Kendall, who worked in the newspaper industry from 2001 to 2010 and has been a screenwriter based in the Los Angeles area since 2010.
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