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Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications - National Data

Metadata Updated: May 5, 2022

The data (name, year of birth, sex, and number) are from a 100 percent sample of Social Security card applications for 1880 onward.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

Downloads & Resources

References

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/index.html
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/background.html
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date May 5, 2022
Data Update Frequency R/P1Y

Metadata Source

Harvested from SSA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date May 5, 2022
Publisher Social Security Administration
Maintainer
Identifier US-GOV-SSA-338
Data Last Modified R/P1Y
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency R/P1Y
Bureau Code 016:00
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Dictionary https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/background.html
Harvest Object Id aa1338ae-d6e8-4989-ac51-dbf4e3c355d4
Harvest Source Id 9386406b-a7b0-4834-a267-0f912b6340db
Harvest Source Title SSA JSON
License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Old Spatial United States
Program Code 016:000
Related Documents https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/index.html, https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/background.html, https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 6133114745caa1aa0190a06331d6f313b2fdaf34
Source Schema Version 1.1
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