Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications - National Data

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

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
accrualPeriodicity R/P1Y
bureauCode {016:00}
catalog_conformsTo https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
catalog_describedBy https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
describedBy https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/background.html
identifier US-GOV-SSA-338
license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
modified R/P1Y
old-spatial United States
programCode {016:000}
publisher Social Security Administration
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}
resource-type Dataset
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source_hash 6133114745caa1aa0190a06331d6f313b2fdaf34
source_schema_version 1.1
spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-124.733253,24.544245],[-124.733253,49.388611],[-66.954811,49.388611],[-66.954811,24.544245],[-124.733253,24.544245]]]}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • baby-names
  • births
  • ckan
  • geo
  • geoss
  • national
  • north-america
  • social-security
  • social-security-administration
  • social-security-cards
  • ssa
  • united-states
isopen True
license_id cc-zero
license_title Creative Commons CCZero
license_url http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-zero
maintainer Open Data
maintainer_email Open.Data@ssa.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-22T05:02:44.904301
metadata_modified 2025-11-22T05:02:44.904306
notes The data (name, year of birth, sex, and number) are from a 100 percent sample of Social Security card applications for 1880 onward.
num_resources 1
num_tags 14
title Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications - National Data