Explore naming trends from babies born in the US
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US Social Security applications are a great way to track trends in how babies born in the US are named.
Data.gov releases two datasets that are helplful for this: one at the national level and another at the state level. Note that only names with at least 5 babies born in the same year (/ state) are included in this dataset for privacy.
I’ve taken the raw files here and combined/normalized them into two CSV files (one for each dataset) as well as a SQLite database with two equivalently-defined tables. The code that did these transformations is available here.
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