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NameYears charts 145 years of baby-name history

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An explorer of US baby-name records, with yearly rankings and charts tracking names’ rises, peaks, comebacks, and declines.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-23 issue.

For: Parents and name-curious readers exploring US naming trends
Worth noticing: It provides pages for 11,712 of 104,819 source names, limiting coverage to names with at least 1,000 recorded births.

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The rankings follow the SSA method: within each sex and year, names are ordered by births, with ties broken alphabetically. Search can map spellings such as Иван or Zoë to the A–Z letters used in the records, but does not match meanings or translate names. Coverage has two notable edges: the SSA suppresses very small yearly counts for privacy, and early birth totals are incomplete.

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