https://github.com/hadley/babynames

An R package containing US baby names from the SSA
https://github.com/hadley/babynames

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An R package containing US baby names from the SSA

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hadley/babynames
• Owner: hadley
• Created: 2014-05-27T17:04:27.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-04-17T19:12:58.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-04T20:57:46.281Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: data, r
• Language: R
• Homepage: http://hadley.github.io/babynames/
• Size: 30.2 MB
• Stars: 134
• Watchers: 11
• Forks: 61
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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# babynames

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This package contains three datasets provided by the USA social security administration:

* `babynames`: For each year from 1880 to 2017, the number of children of 

  each sex given each name. All names with more than 5 uses are given.

  (Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html)

* `applicants`: The number of applicants for social security numbers (SSN) for

  each year for each sex. 

  (Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/numberUSbirths.html)

* `lifetables`: Cohort life tables data

  (Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Body.html)

It also includes the following data set from the US Census:

* `births`: Number of live births by year, up to 2017.

  (Source: an Excel spreadsheet from the Census that has since been removed

  from their website and https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr66/nvsr66_01.pdf)

## Installation

```R

# Install the released version from CRAN

install.packages("babynames")

# Install the development version from GitHub

devtools::install_github("hadley/babynames")

```

## Code of Conduct

Please note that the babynames project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](https://contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.html). By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.