Baby Names US: 145 Years of Naming Fashion

Field notes

The archive uses two complementary measures: births per 1,000 babies for cross-generation comparisons and each name's rank among all names in a year. It excludes yearly counts below five for privacy and supports browsing through decade pages or alphabetical indexes. The homepage also provides narrative entry points, including the 1947 rise of Linda after a hit song and Jennifer's fifteen-year run at number one.