US baby names, 2016–2020 — recent_ssa

Names by birth year and sex, from the U.S. Social Security Administration.

Usage

recent_ssa_names

Format

`recipes`

A data frame with 161,413 rows and 5 columns:

year: birth year
name: first name
sex: M or F
n: count
prop: frequency per live births of that sex

Source

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/names.zip for the names, http://wonder.cdc.gov/natality-expanded-current.html for live births data.

Details

A supplement to the babynames package with a few more years of data. Frequencies are not strictly comparable as the denominator is US live births rather than Social Security applicants as in babynames.