How do you find the number...

AsOctoberFalls

How do you find the number of babies named a certain name?  If I go to ssa.gov, it just allows me to search the top 1000 names (unless I'm missing something).  The name we're giving our son isn't in the top 1000, but I still want to know the number of people given that name last year.

Any ideas?  I've seen people post the information, so i know it's out there - I just don't know how to access it! 

plunderb

SSA lets you download the "beyond the top 1,000" names here. It is a big zip file containing 130 plain text lists with about 30,000 names in each. They list the girls first (name and # of babies), then the boys. To find a name, you just open the file and use the "find" tool. The lists have all the names that had 5 or more uses in a given year.

It's kind of a pain, but once you have the files, they are hours and hours of fun ? if you are a dork like me.

Or, you could just post the name and I'll look it up for you 

AsOctoberFalls

plunderb:

It's kind of a pain, but once you have the files, they are hours and hours of fun ? if you are a dork like me.

Or, you could just post the name and I'll look it up for you 

 Ahhhh that makes sense... no wonder I couldn't find it!  I'm too lazy to download the file... the name is Lucius.

Thanks!   

plunderb

Lucius:

2009: 127

2005: 109

2000: 28

So, it seems to be on a bit of an upswing (thank Harry Potter?), but is still well out of the top 1,000.

Similar names in 2009:

Lucian: 422

Luciano: 374

Lucien: 147

Lucio: 87

Lucious: 25

Lucifer: 9 (note: I don't really think Lucifer is similar, I just thought it was funny that there were 9 of them)

cozylittlecave

plunderb:

SSA lets you download the "beyond the top 1,000" names here. It is a big zip file containing 130 plain text lists with about 30,000 names in each. They list the girls first (name and # of babies), then the boys. To find a name, you just open the file and use the "find" tool. The lists have all the names that had 5 or more uses in a given year.

It's kind of a pain, but once you have the files, they are hours and hours of fun ? if you are a dork like me.

Or, you could just post the name and I'll look it up for you 

THANK YOU! I've always wondered where people are getting this info!  

AsOctoberFalls

Thanks so much for the info!