Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications - National 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 1880 on.

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

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

Harvested from SSA JSON

Resource Type	Dataset
Metadata Created Date	November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date	July 4, 2025
Publisher	Social Security Administration
Maintainer	Open Data
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	2f405d85-e6c0-49e8-bdba-9d0ae5cc4d91
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/
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	f93ec1e733bd8111ea5f2fa1c0595dd67e8c53358c218184b36b571f3b1f34bd
Source Schema Version	1.1
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