Data is from the U.S. Social Security Administration registration requests. The data goes back to 1880 - but the Social Security Administration didn't start until 1935 AND they don't include data on names with less than 5 registrations -- all of which means that the 'data' is showing general trends in 'name popularity' but isn't reliable for individual 'birth name' verification.
This data set ranges from 1880 to 2023. The hard working folks at the SSA tend to update the data around March - e.g. so expect 2024 data to be released in March of 2025.
From a "data analytics" perspective this data is fun to play with. There are 2,052,781 entries and 101,338 unique names - e.g. it is enough data that it requires 'ETL' skills to get it into the database but not so much data that it becomes overwhelming
THEN it becomes fun to dig into the data and ask questions/tell stories -- e.g. there are a handful of very popular "male" names but the most popular"female" name is more than twice as popular that the second most popular name. Why?
Well, the "why" (probably) has to do with the "why" of baby naming in the first place AND the sociological expectation differences between "male" and "female" children.
Click on the menu bar above search by name or year. This is my third version of the "names" website - mostly python on the backend this time around ...The "sorting" and "chart creation" happen with javascript - which is running in your web browser. e.g. You can click on the column heading to re-order by that column - multiple clicks on the same column with switch from "ascending" to "descending".