US Baby Names 1880-2017

US baby names provided by the SSA. This package contains all names used for at least 5 children of either sex.

This package contains three datasets provided by the USA social security administration:

• babynames: For each year from 1880 to 2017, the number of children of each sex given each name. All names with more than 5 uses are given. (Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html)

• applicants: The number of applicants for social security numbers (SSN) for each year for each sex. (Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/numberUSbirths.html)

• lifetables: Cohort life tables data (Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Body.html)

It also includes the following data set from the US Census:

• births: Number of live births by year, up to 2017. (Source: an Excel spreadsheet from the Census that has since been removed from their website and https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr66/nvsr66_01.pdf)

Installation

# Install the released version from CRAN
install.packages("babynames")
 
# Install the development version from GitHub
devtools::install_github("hadley/babynames")

Please note that the 'babynames' project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.