US baby names, 2016–2020, by state

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

Usage

recent_ssa_state_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

state

state (two-letter code)

prop

frequency per live births of that sex

Source

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

Details

Recent baby names, by state, as a supplement to the babynames package. Frequencies are not strictly comparable as the denominator is state live births rather than Social Security applicants as in babynames.