Observed arrival · 2026-09-19
US Name Trends: 145 Years of American Naming
An interactive explorer of U.S. baby-name records from 1880 to 2025, charting names by spelling, sex, rank, births, and sound-alike groupings.
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- The sound-alike mode uses a pronunciation heuristic rather than simple spelling distance, with explicit known failure cases.
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The explorer separates exact spelling from a computed sound-alike mode, allowing readers to inspect individual spellings within a proposed family and alter the grouping manually. Its historical coverage has an important boundary: names are omitted from a year below five births, while pre-late-1930s Social Security records represent only part of the birth population. The site also supplies 816 short origin notes and links to fuller name histories.
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