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Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications - Territory Data

Metadata Updated: July 4, 2025

The data (name, year of birth, sex, and number) are from a 100 percent sample of Social Security card applications for 1998 on.

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 July 4, 2025
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 July 4, 2025
Publisher Social Security Administration
Maintainer
Identifier US-GOV-SSA-1987
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 de918db5-4901-4260-851b-099e14fea84f
Harvest Source Id 9386406b-a7b0-4834-a267-0f912b6340db
Harvest Source Title SSA JSON
Homepage URL https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/index.html
License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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 e4be61846be4eafd7fefec4fe05ae0de6b9a5a401c853cc48917baa85f7c5b9b
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal R/1998-01-01/P1Y

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